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Organizational structure as a determinant of performance: Evidence from mutual funds
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2012-06)
This article develops and tests a model of how organizational structure influences organizational performance. Organizational structure, conceptualized as the decision‐making structure among a group of individuals, is shown ...
Corporate elites and corporate strategy: how demographic preferences and structural position shape the scope of the firm
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004-06)
This study combines elements of the upper echelons and agency perspectives to resolve some of the ambiguity surrounding how corporate elites affect corporate strategy. We propose and test the notion that while differences ...
A Review of Donaldson and Dunfee's Ties That Bind: A Social Contracts Approach to Business Ethics
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-12)
This article reviews Thomas Donaldson and Thomas Dunfee's new book Ties That Bind. The article argues that the book is a helpful elaboration of Donaldson and Dunfee's Integrative Social Contracts Approach, particularly ...
Analytic evaluation of contention protocols used in distributed real-time systems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-07)
The probability of a station failing to deliver packets before their deadlines, called the probability of dynamic failure, P dyn , is an important measure for the communication subsystem of a distributed real-time system. ...
Stationary equilibrium transition rules for an overlapping generations model with uncertainty
(Elsevier, 1985-02)
An overlapping generations model incorporating random production shocks is studied. Households have finite life spans. Futures markets are incomplete. Agents have full information in one case, and receive only a limited ...
Federalism as a Public Good
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-06)
This paper suggests that stabilizing federalism is like solving a public good provision problem. It reviews results in the public good provision literature that are relevant for federalism, and discusses the implications ...
Statistical Analysis of Choice Experiments and Surveys
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
Measures of households' past behavior, their expectations with respect to future events and contingencies, and their intentions with respect to future behavior are frequently collected using household surveys. These questions ...