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Where do resources come from? The role of idiosyncratic situations
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004-08)
In this paper, we examine the emergence of resources. Our analysis of technological capability acquisition by global U.S.-based chemical firms shows that the emergence of resources is inherently evolutionary. We find that ...
Tax Law Changes, Income Shifting and Measured Wage Inequality: Evidence from India
(2006-05-24)
We use a large dataset covering all registered plants in the manufacturing sector in India over the period 1986 to 1995 to examine the effects of a 1992 income tax law change that eliminated the double taxation of wages ...
Toward quality criteria for collective judgments
(Elsevier, 1985-10)
While most organizational and social decision making is done in a group or collective mode, there are few guides or evaluative criteria for judging when a high-quality outcome has been reached. Most past studies of group ...
Accounting pedagogy based on extant authoritative rules versus decision-oriented analysis: The case of other postemployment benefits
(Elsevier, 1990)
Contemporary financial accounting pedagogy has been criticized for its excessive concentration on extant authoritative rules and preparer-oriented mechanics. An alternative decision-oriented pedagogy would emphasize the ...
Using latent semantic indexing for literature based discovery
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998-06)
Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a statistical technique for improving information retrieval effectiveness. Here, we use LSI to assist in literature-based discoveries. The idea behind literature-based discoveries is that ...
Conveying more (or less) than we realize: The role of impression-management in feedback-seeking
(Elsevier, 1992-12)
This paper reports two studies concerning impression management, impression formation, and feedback-seeking. Study 1 demonstrated that people seek less feedback when being observed and respond to situational norms regarding ...
Bayesian Estimation of Circumplex Models Subject to Prior Theory Constraints and Scale-Usage Bias
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; The Psychometric Society ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2006-03-16)
This paper presents a hierarchical Bayes circumplex model for ordinal ratings data. The circumplex model was proposed to represent the circular ordering of items in psychological testing by imposing inequalities on the ...