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- August 1980
- Article
An Activity Analysis Approach to Unit Costing with Multiple Interactive Products
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Hiroyuki Itami
- 1980
- Working Paper
Components of Manufacturing Inventories: A Structural Model of the Production Process
By: Alan J. Auerbach and Jerry R. Green
This paper presents a structural model of production and inventory accumulation based on the hypothesis of cost minimization. It differs from previous attempts in several respects. First, it integrates the analysis of input inventories with output inventories, treating... View Details
- March 1979
- Article
Determinants of Subunit Communication Structure: A Contingency Analysis
By: Michael Tushman
- February 1979
- Background Note
Note on the Theory of Optimal Capital Structure
Examines the interrelationship between the maximization of the share value of a firm's common stock and the minimization of the firm's weighted average cost of capital. Presents a revised version of a case by J.W. Mullins, Jr. View Details
- March–April 1978
- Article
Testing Social Theories in Marketing Settings
By: D. A. Leonard and E. M. Rogers
- 1978
- Article
Instrumentalism v. Formalism: Dissolving the Dichotomy
By: Lynn Sharp Paine
Keywords: Theory
- Article
Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Social decision mechanisms that admit dominant strategies and result in Pareto optima are characterized by the class of mechanisms proposed by Groves. The concept of decision mechanisms is generalized and the characterization is shown to extend to these cases. View Details
- 1975
- Working Paper
Information, Efficiency and Equilibrium
By: Jerry R. Green
When economic agents receive information over time concerning future events it is likely that prices for commodities whose value is influenced by these events will fluctuate in response to changes in the state of knowledge. If such events occur periodically,... View Details
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The Stability of Edgeworth's Recontracting Process
By: Jerry R. Green
The core is the set of all unblocked allocations. Implicit in this definition is the idea that if an allocation is proposed which could be blocked, some coalition will form and issue a counterproposal which it can enforce. A process of successive counterproposals based... View Details