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The Tone of Management Forward Looking Statements and Asymmetric Cost Behavior
(2016-09)
The documentation of asymmetric cost behavior in response to changes in demand has attracted much scholarly attention over the past decade. Most studies propose that this cost asymmetry is due to the influence of management ...
Product Variety and Vertical Integration
(2016-04)
In vertical relationships the potential for scale economy in manufacturing often calls for specialization and outsourcing. Specialization, however, depends critically on the stability of the task and contractual environment. ...
Dynamic Joint Pricing and Order Fulfillment for E-Commerce Retailers
(2016-03)
We consider an e-commerce retailer (e-tailer) who sells a catalog of products to customers from different regions during a finite selling season and fulfills orders through multiple fulfillment centers. The e-tailer faces ...
Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Building Research Through Tensions and Paradoxes
(2016-02)
The focus of institutional theory is directed towards an understanding of situations where context is strong and binding, yet subtly experienced; where agency is often diffuse, embodied in an arrangement or system of actors ...
Analyst Information Discovery and Interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach
(2016-11)
This study examines analyst information intermediary roles using a textual analysis of analyst reports and corporate disclosures. We employ a topic modeling methodology from computational linguistic research to compare the ...