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Adaptive self-regulation: A process view of managerial effectiveness
(Elsevier, 1994)
This article describes a set of processes involved in attaining managerial effectiveness. These processes are components of an adaptive self-regulation framework. They involve the active management of constituencies' role ...
Profiting from 'countervailing' power: An effect of government control
(Elsevier, 1988)
We demonstrate that a firm subject to government regulation might expect an increase in profit upon creation of an independent monopoly upstream. Such a monopoly serves to increase the expected cost of the regulated firm. ...
Comments on `trade policies in the U.S. automobile industry", by Penny Koujianou Goldberg
(Elsevier, 1994-06)
This is a paper on an important and timely topic and it represents a substantial improvement over much of the existing literature on the effects of trade policy in the U.S. automobile market. In particular, the use of ...
Ratings Changes, Ratings Levels, and the Predictive Value of Analysts’ Recommendations
(Blackwell Publishing Asia, 2010-06)
We show that abnormal returns to analysts’ recommendations stem from both the ratings levels assigned and the changes in those ratings. Conditional on the ratings change, buy and strong buy recommendations have greater ...
Direct regression, reverse regression, and covariance structure analysis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-08)
This paper discusses the issues in estimating the effects of marketing variables with linear models. When the variables are not directly observable, it is well known that direct regression yields biased estimates. Several ...
Solving and Testing for Regressor-Error (in)Dependence When no Instrumental Variables are Available: With New Evidence for the Effect of Education on Income
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
This paper has two main contributions. Firstly, we introduce a new approach, the latent instrumental variables (LIV) method, to estimate regression coefficients consistently in a simple linear regression model where ...
Organizational and leadership virtues and the role of forgiveness
(2003)
The investigation of virtues in organizational life has been neglected. Systematic studies of the development and demonstration of virtue have been all but absent in the organizational sciences. This article highlights ...
The powers of problem definition: The case of government paperwork
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1989-05)
Problem definition is a package of ideas that includes, at least implicitly, an account of the causes and consequences of undesirable circumstances and a theory about how to improve them. As such, it serves as the overture ...
Gross job flows in Ukraine
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003-06)
This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a dataset of more than 2200 Ukrainian firms operating in manufacturing and non-manufacturing for the years 1998–2000. Job destruction ...
Profitability, productivity and price recovery patterns in the U.S. telecommunications industry
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-02)
We undertake a study where we examine changes in the profitability, productivity and price recovery of firms in the U.S. telecommunications industry over a sixteen-year period. We assess the performance of thirty-three ...