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- 1982
- Book
Making it Happen: Designing Research with Implementation in Mind
By: Milton Hakel, Michael Beer, Melvin Sorcher and Joseph Moses
- November 1982
- Article
The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Consensual Assessment Technique
By: T. M. Amabile
States that both the popular creativity tests, such as the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and the subjective assessment techniques used in some previous creativity studies are ill-suited to social psychological studies of creativity. A consensual definition of... View Details
- 1982
- Article
When Self-Descriptions Contradict Behavior: Actions do Speak Louder than Words
By: T. M. Amabile and L. Kabat
Subjects viewed two videotapes, one depicting a stimulus person's self-description and the other depicting that person's behavior in a conversation, according to a four-way factorial design personality descriptor used in the self-description ("introvert" or... View Details
- December 1981 (Revised September 1986)
- Background Note
Research Methods in Marketing: Survey Research
By: Robert J. Dolan
Presents basic issues in survey research, covering both measurement and sampling error. The intention is to consider each element of the survey process: problem statement, questionnaire design, sampling, and data analysis. View Details
- 1981
- Chapter
A Degeneracy Exploiting LU Factorization for the Simplex Method
By: André Perold
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
- 1981
- Chapter
Risk Aversion and Solutions to Nash's Bargaining Problem
By: R. Kihlstrom, A. E. Roth and D. Schmeidler
- 1981
- Chapter
Sparsity and Piecewise Linearity in Large Portfolio Optimization Problems
By: André Perold and Harry M. Markowitz
- Article
Value of Information with Sequential Futures Markets
By: Jerry R. Green
The effects of an improvement in information on the efficiency of risk-bearing are studied under various systems of incomplete markets. With sequential futures markets for uncontingent delivery, the welfare effects are indeterminate in sign, except under special... View Details
- 1981
- Article
A Consumer Based Approach for Establishing Priorities in Consumer Information Programs: Implications for Public Policy
By: Rohit Deshpandé and S. Krishnan
Although there exists substantial research on the style and format of consumer information programs, little attention has been devoted to the critical issue of whether consumers need new information at all. A conceptual approach to systematically assess this... View Details
- 1981
- Article
Attributes Affecting the Use of Market Research in Decision Making: An Exploratory Study
By: Rohit Deshpandé and S. Jeffries
- 1982
- Article
Correlates of Deficient Consumer Environments: The Case of the Elderly
By: Rohit Deshpandé and S. Krishnan
Although much research attention has been given to the format of consumer information environments, there has been little study of the effects of consumer environments lacking in information. This paper describes an empirical study of elderly consumers functioning in... View Details