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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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Information requirements for managerial decisions in manufacturing

Business Process Management Journal, 2009
PurposeThe study is based on the need to improve a management process, especially the linkage between strategies, and performance measurement and analysis. This need concentrates on understanding information requirements in order to ensure high quality of managerial decisions.
Kongkiti Phusavat, Rapee Kanchana, Binshan Lin   +2 more
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Behavioral models of managerial decision-making

Marketing Letters, 2011
This paper reviews the literature that applies behavioral economic models to managerial decisions. It organizes the literature into research that focuses on alternative utility functions and research that focuses on non-equilibrium models. Generally, behavioral models have seen less application to manager decisions than to consumer decisions and ...
Avi Goldfarb, Teck H. Ho, Wilfred Amaldoss, Alexander L. Brown, Yan Chen, Tony Haitao Cui, Alberto Galasso, Tanjim Hossain, Ming Hsu, Noah Lim, Mo Xiao, Botao Yang   +11 more
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MANAGERIAL DECISIONS IN BUSINESS [PDF]

Review of General Management, 2010
An essential element of the managerial process, the decision is the act of moving from thought to action. This aims to find the most rational way for future actions to ensure maximum efficiency of managerial actions. The process further increasing the effectiveness of management’s actions requires that any decision to have a solid scientific foundation.
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Investment Decisions and Managerial Performance Evaluation

Review of Accounting Studies, 1997
This paper considers incentive provisions for a manager who makes investment decisions. The manager's performance measure can be based on current accounting information: cash flow, depreciation, book value, and current investment. We argue that Residual Income is the unique (linear) performance measure that achieves goal congruence, i.e., the manager ...
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