Now showing items 41-50 of 136
Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2008-03)
Employer health insurance mandates form the basis of many health care reform proposals. Proponents make the case that they will increase insurance, while opponents raise the concern that low-wage workers will see offsetting ...
Reliability estimation based on operational data of manufacturing systems
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-11)
Maintenance management has a direct influence on equipment reliability and safety. However, a large portion of traditional maintenance models and reliability analysis methods usually assumes that only perfect maintenance ...
Determinants Of Barries To Quality Of Direct Foreign Investments Evidences From South & East Asian Economies
(2008-02-01)
The objective of this paper is to examine whether FDI inflows in South & East Asian economies posses any barriers which are deterring to attract FDI of their actual potential? If so, what are those various set of barriers? ...
Price Setting and Market Structure: An Empirical Analysis of Micro Data
(2008-09-01)
Most empirical studies on price setting that use micro data focus on advanced industrial countries. In this paper we analyze the experience of an emerging economy, Slovakia, using a large micro-level dataset that accounts ...
Cross-cultural development of an abridged job insecurity measure
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-04)
Using four samples from the United States and China, we developed two theoretically based abridged job insecurity (JI) scales to address researcher concerns with the length of the original 57-item scale. These two scales ...
Do Choice & Speed of Reforms Matter for Human Rights During Transition?
(2008-06-01)
Conventional wisdom posits absence of systematic relationship between economic reforms and human rights. Taking the case of transition economies, Vadlamannati & Soysa (2008) shows significant positive relationship between ...
Splitting the pie: rent distribution in alliances and networks
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-03)
This paper addresses the issue of how relational rents, generated through alliances, are distributed to the participating firms. We argue that rent distribution is influenced by factors affecting both jointly generated ...
Aligning firm, leadership, and personal brand
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008)
No abstract.
Three Essays on Dynamic Production and Pricing Decisions for New Products.
(2008)
This dissertation focuses on dynamic production and pricing issues related to new products. The first essay is focused on the dynamic pricing issue for new product diffusion process when capacity is limited, the second ...