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作者：Jensen, Robert J.; Szulanski, Gabriel
作者单位：Brigham Young University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This paper is a direct empirical examination of the fundamental claim that use of templates enhances the effectiveness of knowledge transfer. We explore the effect of template use through an eight-year, in-depth field investigation of Rank Xerox (now Xerox Europe). The field investigation covers three sequential transfer efforts in 15 western European countries. The investigation reveals a naturally occurring, repeated-treatment quasi experiment that allows us to test the hypothesis that the u...
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作者：Lichtendahl, Kenneth C., Jr.; Winkler, Robert L.
作者单位：University of Virginia; Duke University
摘要：Probability forecasters who are rewarded via a proper scoring rule may care not only about the score, but also about their performance relative to other forecasters. We model this type of preference and show that a competitive forecaster who wants to do better than another forecaster typically should report more extreme probabilities, exaggerating toward zero or one. We consider a competitive forecaster's best response to truthful reporting and also investigate equilibrium reporting functions ...
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作者：Cossin, Didier; Schellhorn, Henry
作者单位：International Institute for Management Development (IMD); Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University
摘要：We develop a structural model of credit risk in a network economy, where any firm can lend to any other firm, so that each firm is subject to counterparty risk either from direct borrowers or from remote firms in the network. This model takes into account the role of each firm's cash management. We show that we can obtain a semiclosed form formula for the price of debt and equity when cash accounts are buffers to bankruptcy risk. As in other structural models, the strategic bankruptcy decision...
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作者：Kim, Jin Gyo; Menzefricke, Ulrich; Feinberg, Fred M.
作者单位：Seoul National University (SNU); University of Toronto; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Empirical evidence suggests that decision makers often weight successive additional units of a valued attribute or monetary endowment unequally, so that their utility functions are intrinsically nonlinear or irregularly shaped. Although the analyst may impose various functional specifications exogenously, this approach is ad hoc, tedious, and reliant on various metrics to decide which specification is best. In this paper, we develop a method that yields individual-level, flexibly shaped utilit...
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作者：Raz, Ornit; Gloor, Peter A.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This paper presents new evidence regarding a firm's probability for survival, based on the network structure of the firm's managers. We found that start-ups that have larger informal communication networks increased their chance to survive external shock. Original data have been collected from Israeli software start-ups during the dot-com economic growth. About eight years later, we added information about their ability to survive the burst of the dot-com. bubble. From a theoretical point of v...
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作者：Plambeck, Erica L.; Taylor, Terry A.
作者单位：Stanford University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：In a stylized model of biopharmaceutical. contract manufacturing, this paper shows how the potential for renegotiation influences the optimal structure of supply contracts, investments in innovation and capacity; the way scarce capacity is allocated, and firms' resulting profits. Two buyers contract for capacity with a common manufacturer. Then, the buyers invest in innovation (product development and marketing) and the manufacturer builds capacity. Finally, the firms may renegotiate to allow ...
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作者：Day, Robert W.; Raghavan, S.
作者单位：University of Connecticut; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Motivated by the increasing use of auctions by government agencies, we consider the problem of fairly pricing public goods in a combinatorial auction. A well-known problem with the incentive-compatible Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) auction mechanism is that the resulting prices may not be in the core. Loosely speaking, this means the payments of the winners could. be so low, that there are bidders who would have been willing to pay more than the payments of the winning bidders. Clearly, this unf...
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作者：Liu, Liming; Parlar, Mahmut; Zhu, Stuart X.
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; McMaster University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：his paper studies a decentralized supply chain consisting of a supplier and a retailer facing price- and leadtime-sensitive demands. A Stackelberg game is constructed to analyze the price and lead time decisions by the supplier as the leader and the retailer as the follower. The equilibrium strategies of the two players are obtained. Using the performance of the corresponding centralized system as a benchmark, we show that decentralized decisions in general are inefficient and lead to inferior...
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作者：Demirhan, Didem; Jacob, Varghese S.; Raghunathan, Srinivasan
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：The declining cost of information technology (IT) over time provides the later entrant in information-intensive industries a cost advantage. On the other hand, the earlier entrant has the potential to build and retain its market share if consumers incur a cost in switching to the later entrant. We investigate the impact of a decline in the IT cost and the switching cost on IT investment strategies of firms. We find that a declining IT cost always hurts the early entrant's profit. The early ent...
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作者：Jiang, Zhengrui; Sarkar, Sumit; De, Prabuddha; Dey, Debabrata
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Because of the heterogeneous nature of different data sources, data integration is often one of the most challenging tasks in managing modern information systems. While the existing literature has focused on problems such as schema integration and entity identification, it has largely overlooked a basic question: When an attribute value for a real-world entity is recorded differently in different databases, how should the ''best'' value be chosen from the set of possible values? This paper pro...
