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Response to editorial by Bryan and Rafferty
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006)
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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 ...
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 ...
How and when does complex reasoning occur? Empirically driven development of a learning progression focused on complex reasoning about biodiversity
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2009-08)
In order to compete in a global economy, students are going to need resources and curricula focusing on critical thinking and reasoning in science. Despite awareness for the need for complex reasoning, American students ...
Inferring Market Structure from Customer Response to Competing and Complementary Products
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-08)
We consider customer influences on market structure, arguing that market structure should explain the extent to which any given set of market offerings are substitutes or complements. We describe recent additions to the ...
A robust design in hardfacing using a plasma transfer arc
(Springer-Verlag, 2006-02)
This paper presents the use of the Taguchi-regression method in developing the optimal plasma transferred arc welding (PTAW) process for obtaining high hardfacing quality characteristics. An “optimal” process means that ...
Modeling and analysis of multi‐stage transfer lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-01)
This paper models and analyzes multi‐stage transfer lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers. The machines have exponential operation, failure, and repair processes. First, a mixed vector–scalar Markov process ...
A Finite Algorithm for Solving Infinite Dimensional Optimization Problems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-01)
We consider the general optimization problem ( P ) of selecting a continuous function x over a σ-compact Hausdorff space T to a metric space A , from a feasible region X of such functions, so as to minimize a functional c ...
The reversal of the relation between economic growth and health progress: Sweden in the 19th and 20th centuries
(2007-10)
Health progress, as measured by the decline in mortality rates and the increase in life expectancy, is usually
conceived as related to economic growth, especially in the long run. In this investigation it is shown ...
Knowledge Integration in Science Teaching: Analysing Teachers' Knowledge Development
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-03)
This paper tests the utility of a new sociocognitive frame for analysing the development of teachers' knowledge – the knowledge integration perspective (Linn, Eylon, & Davis, in press; Linn & Hsi, 2000). In doing so, the ...