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Offshoring along the Production Chain
Harms, Philipp - 2009
Recent contributions on off shoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production...
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Noblesse Oblige? Determinants of Survival in a Life and Death Situation
Frey, Bruno S. - 2008
This paper explores the determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested in seeing whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
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Levelized Product Cost : Concept and Decision Relevance
Reichelstein, Stefan J. - 2014
This paper examines a life-cycle cost concept that applies to both manufacturing and service industries in which upfront capacity investments are essential. Borrowing from the energy literature, we refer to this cost measure as the levelized product cost (LC). Per unit of output, the levelized...
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Homo Moralis : Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making
Deckers, Thomas - 2016
institutions compared to situations of individual decision-making. Intelligence, female gender, and the existence of siblings …
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Excessive Herding in the Laboratory : The Role of Intuitive Judgments
March, Christoph - 2018
We designed four observational learning experiments to identify the key channels that, along with Bayes-rational inferences, drive herd behavior. In Experiment 1, unobserved, whose actions remain private, learn from the public actions made in turn by subjects endowed with private signals of...
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Decision Initiation, Decision Implementation, and the Allocation of Decision Rights
Sloof, Randolph; von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021
implemented. Fama & Jensen (1983) argue that the same members of many organization are often responsible for both decision … to express their discontent with the allocation of decision rights. How decisions come about also affects implementation …
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Do Managers with Limited Liability Take More Risky Decisions? An Information Acquisition Model
Malcomson, James M. - 2021
actions. The resulting decisions may be less, rather than more, risky. Making a decision after acquiring information provides …
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Cake Division by Majority Decision
Gersbach, Hans; Pachl, Bernhard - 2021
quantity of resources. Afterwards, one of the proposals is chosen by majority decision. If no proposal obtains a majority, a …
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Theoretical and Practical Arguments for Modeling Labor Supply as a Choice Among Latent Jobs
Dagsvik, John K. - 2012
paper we argue that practicality is not the only feature that can be addressed by means of stochastic choice theory. This … theory also offers a powerful framework for developing a more realistic model for labor supply choices, founded on …
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Deception Under Time Pressure : Conscious Decision or a Problem of Awareness?
Konrad, Kai A. - 2017
intuitive decision while others allow for extensive reflection time. To be able to pursue a deceptive strategy, however, a … dimension for dishonest decision-making and for the cognition process of the chance to deceive. We conduct a laboratory … opportunity and the conscious decision to misreport, reveals that more reflection time increases awareness of the misreporting …
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