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- March 1994 (Revised February 2001)
- Background Note
Why Manage Risk?
By: Peter Tufano
Conventional finance theory demonstrates that, under simplistic assumptions, firms cannot add to shareholder value through the use of risk management activities. Modern finance theory has begun to carefully consider and examine those circumstances under which firms can... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management
- February 1994
- Article
A Tale of Two Cities: Distinctiveness Theory and Advertising Effectiveness
By: Rohit Deshpandé and D. M. Stayman
Keywords: Advertising
- 1994
- Chapter
Fairness in Decisions on Siting Noxious Facilities: Theory and Empirical Results
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Bruno S. Frey
- January 1994
- Article
Salesforce Compensation Plans: Managerial Insights from Recent Theoretical Developments
By: R. Lal
- spring 1994
- Article
Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances
By: Ranjay Gulati, Tarun Khanna and Nitin Nohria
How the partners in an alliance view their joint venture can have much to do with its success or failure. Each partner fears that the other will get the larger payoff by acting opportunistically while it cooperates in good faith. The result is that both partners choose... View Details
- autumn 1993
- Article
Motivational Synergy: Toward New Conceptualizations of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in the Workplace
By: T. M. Amabile
The foundation for a model of motivational synergy is presented. Building upon but going beyond previous conceptualizations, the model outlines the ways in which intrinsic motivation (which arises from the intrinsic value of the work for the individual) might interact... View Details
- August 1993
- Article
Transaction Cost Theory: Inferences from Clinical Field Research
- August 1993
- Article
Transaction Cost Theory: Inferences from Clinical Field Research on Downstream Vertical Integration
By: V. K. Rangan, E. R. Corey and F. V. Cespedes
- March 1993
- Background Note
Stages Theory, The: A Framework for IT Adoption and Organizational Learning
By: Richard L. Nolan, David Croson and Katherine Seger
Describes Professor Richard Nolan's Stages Theory of Information Technology adoption by organizations. View Details
- 1993
- Book
British Multinational Banking 1830-1990
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book provides the first modern history of British multinational banking. It analyses their emergence, growth and performance from their origins in the 1830s until the present day. It is based on a wide range of confidential banking records, which are placed in the... View Details
- 1993
- Book
Coalitions and Collaboration in International Business
By: G. Jones
This volume provides a selection of the most important research on the history of international business collaboration from the nineteenth century until the present day. The selected essays cover the extensve literature on international cartels, other forms of... View Details
- Article
Beyond the M-form: Toward a Managerial Theory of the Firm
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal
- 1993
- Comment
What Does a Theory of Creativity Require?
By: T. M. Amabile
Comments on Hans J. Eysenck's claims about the close alliance between creativity and psychosis in an article published in the periodical 'Psychological Inquiry.' Distinct senses of Eysenck's use of the term creativity; Failure of Eysenck to present an actual theory of... View Details
- 1992
- Book
Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis
By: A. E. Roth and M. Sotomayor
Keywords: Game Theory
- March 1992
- Article
Negotiator Cognition and Rationality: A Behavioral Decision Theory Perspective
By: M. A. Neale and M. H. Bazerman