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Decision Support for Target-Based Resource Allocation of Public Services in Multiunit and Multilevel Systems
Athanassopoulos, Antreas D. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 2, pp. 173-187
. The paper develops a network-based representation of multilevel resource management with equity, efficiency, and …
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Note: A Problem with the Decomposition of Technical Inefficiency into Scale and Congestion Components
McDonald, John - In: Management Science 42 (1996) 3, pp. 473-474
In 1988, Byrnes, Färe, Grosskopf and Lovell define a decomposition of inefficiency differentials into scale and congestion components. This note shows that the decomposition may be sensitive to the order in which the two components are calculated, and, consequently, use of the decomposition may...
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The Impact of Royalty Contract Revision in a Multistage Strategic R&D Alliance
Xiao, Wenqiang; Xu, Yi - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 12, pp. 2251-2271
This paper investigates the impact of royalty revision on incentives and profits in a two-stage (research and … to dynamically adjust royalty rates across the two stages of the alliance to better align the innovator's incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990567
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Strategic Transfer Pricing
Alles, Michael; Datar, Srikant - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 4, pp. 451-461
Most research into cost systems has focused on their motivational implications. This paper takes a different approach, by developing a model where two oligopolistic firms strategically select their cost-based transfer prices. Duopoly models frequently assume that firms game on their choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009209114
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Mechanism Design for "Free" but "No Free Disposal" Services: The Economics of Personalization Under Privacy Concerns
Chellappa, Ramnath K.; Shivendu, Shivendu - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 10, pp. 1766-1780
Online personalization services belong to a class of economic goods with a "no free disposal" (NFD) property where consumers do not always prefer more services to less because of the privacy concerns. These concerns arise from the revelation of information necessary for the provision of...
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Organizational Design and the Intensity of Rivalry
Vroom, Govert - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 11, pp. 1689-1702
different; one firm is decentralized and uses incentives that commit it to being aggressive, while the other is centralized and … uses incentives that commit it to being soft. Hence, endogenous firm heterogeneity in the form of organizational …
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Decentralizing Cross-Functional Decisions: Coordination Through Internal Markets
Kouvelis, Panagiotis; Lariviere, Martin A. - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 8, pp. 1049-1058
own individual incentives and may consequently fail to maximize the overall profits of the firm. We examine this issue in … incentives. We illustrate the flexibility of the scheme by applying it to several models in the operations management literature. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009209331
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Revenue Driven Resource Allocation: Funding Authority, Incentives, and New Product Development Portfolio Management
Chao, Raul O.; Kavadias, Stylianos; Gaimon, Cheryl - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 9, pp. 1556-1569
bestow on managers and how to structure incentives for NPD. In this study, we explore how funding authority and incentives … highlight a substitution effect between explicit incentives (compensation parameters) and implicit incentives (career concerns …). Explicit incentives are reduced as career concerns become more salient. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009214019
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Managerial Motivation Dynamics and Incentives
Ay\c{s}e Kocab{\i}y{\i}ko\u{g}lu; Popescu, Ioana - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 5, pp. 834-848
the agent's productivity and past performance, time to evaluation, the firm's capabilities, and market factors. Our …
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Code Reuse in Open Source Software
Haefliger, Stefan; Krogh, Georg von; Spaeth, Sebastian - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 1, pp. 180-193
lower their search costs for knowledge and code, assess the quality of software components, and have incentives to reuse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009214100