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Improving Managerial Decision Making

Journal of Managerial Psychology, 1987
In language that the practising manager can use, findings from several years of important research on managerial decision making are summarised. Four major traps of faulty decision making are identified and managers are shown how to avoid these traps and to improve their decision‐making skills.
Larry E Pate
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On Managerial Decision Problem of the Auction Sites

Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, 2006
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Kin Keung Lai, Jun Ma, Shouyang Wang
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Performance Gaps and Managerial Decisions: A Bayesian Decision Theory of Managerial Action

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2015
An extensive literature finds that managerial decisions matter for the performance of public organizations, yet little attention has been devoted to why managers make the decisions that they do. This article builds a theory of public management decision making based on the simple assumption that managers are concerned with performance and the ...
Kenneth J. Meier, Nathan Favero, Ling Zhu   +2 more
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Gender, Competition, and Managerial Decisions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of competitive compensation between a manager and a worker in the laboratory. To this end, we impose a simple agency relationship between two groups of subjects termed managers and workers. The manager chooses a compensation scheme for the worker from either a piece rate or a tournament payment scheme
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The determinants of managerial decisions under risk [PDF]

, 2008
In hierarchical organizations the role of a team leader often requires making decisions which do not necessarily coincide with the majority opinion of the team. However, these decisions are final and binding for all team members. We study experimentally why, and under which conditions, leaders resort to such decisions.
Martin G. Kocher, Ganna Pogrebna, Matthias Sutter   +2 more
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Managerial Decision Making and Capital Structure

The Journal of Business, 1993
This article investigates leverage influence on project selection. First, the authors examine 428 mergers (1962-82) and then 389 acquisitions of all types (1982-86). Announcement-period acquirer returns are greater the higher the leverage of the acquirer.
Maloney, Michael T, McCormick, Robert E, Mitchell, Mark L   +2 more
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Managerial Compensation and the Debt Placement Decision

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Extant research argues that borrowing from financial intermediaries subjects managers to external monitoring. However, given managers’ flexibility in choosing the type of debt financing, why would managers submit themselves to external monitoring? Recent theory points to the role of managerial incentive compensation.
Susan M. Albring, Inder K. Khurana, Ali Nejadmalayeri, Raynolde Pereira   +3 more
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