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Recently, time equation-based costing has been developed as a cost modelling approach in which activity times are calculated using time equations. Drawing on mathematical statistics, this paper develops a risk analysis approach and shows how it can be used to determine the impact of measurement...
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The academic accounting literature has established that the conditions under which costing systems in general and Activity Based Costing (ABC) in particular provide accurate costs are very stringent. Less is known, however, about the nature, level and bias of costing errors and their...
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This study compares ex ante estimates of the direct costs of individual regulations to ex post assessments of the same regulations. Our review of more than two dozen environmental and occupational safety regulations indicates that ex ante estimates of total (direct) costs have tended to exceed...
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[ES] En este artículo analizamos las intenciones de emprender un negocio por parte de un grupo de estudiantes argentinos que cursaban la especialización en Dirección Estratégica de Recursos Humanos en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Los resultados del estudio muestran que estos estudiantes...
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In some economic games, participants systematically display behavior that departs from the model of payoff maximization, and this is usually attributed to social preferences. In this paper we focus on a new interactive context, a mixed-motive game called “Alternative Traveler’s Dilemma”...
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In this paper we analyze the intentions in creating a business on the part of a group of Argentine students in Strategic Human Resources Management in the University of Buenos Aires. The results of the study show that these students want to create their own business, but their possibilities...
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controlled. Drug resistance exacerbates the welfare difference between monopoly and first best outcomes. Nevertheless, because … the negative externalities from resistance compete with the positive externalities of treatment, a mixed competition …
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Resistance to change is not a new concept in economic literature (Coch and French 1948, Boulding 1956). However, in the … acknowledged that resistance characterizes institutions, organizations and the mind, we suggest that the convergence toward such … counterparts of economic behavior into account. We finally reinterpret resistance to change as a heuristic that helps manage the …
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