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Locally Rational Decision Making: The Distracting Effect of Information on Managerial Performance

Glazer, Rashi; Steckel, Joel H.; Winer, Russell S. - In: Management Science 38 (1992) 2, pp. 212-226

not the components most closely tied to success, overall performance may in fact suffer. The decision-making process is …

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Coordinating Mechanisms in Care Provider Groups: Relational Coordination as a Mediator and Input Uncertainty as a Moderator of Performance Effects

Gittell, Jody Hoffer - In: Management Science 48 (2002) 11, pp. 1408-1426

. Consistent with organization design theory, the performance effects of boundary spanners and team meetings were mediated by …, however, the performance effects of routines were also mediated by relational coordination. Rather than serving as a …

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Information and Incentive Effects of Inventory in JIT Production

Alles, Michael; Amershi, Amin; Datar, Srikant; Sarkar, Ratna - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 12, pp. 1528-1544

This paper provides an economic rationale for modern manufacturing control practices such as the minimal inventories in Just in Time (JIT)systems, zero-defect policies, and continuous improvement. The popular and academic literature contains descriptive studies on the mechanics of these systems...

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Product Recalls in the Medical Device Industry: An Empirical Exploration of the Sources and Financial Consequences

Thirumalai, Sriram; Sinha, Kingshuk K. - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 2, pp. 376-392

Medical devices play an increasingly significant role in the delivery of health care today. However, persistent quality problems with medical devices and the associated recalls present potential health risks to patients and personnel using these devices. This study addresses three key issues in...

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Testing a Life-Cycle Theory of Cooperative Interorganizational Relationships: Movement Across Stages and Performance

Jap, Sandy D.; Anderson, Erin - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 2, pp. 260-275

consider whether movement across the stages in accordance with DSO's theory has the same association to overall performance … patterns is negatively related to performance, and these relationships do not enjoy a fresh start. Instead, these movements can … last for an extended period of time and are negatively related to performance outcomes during the decline phase. Thus, the …

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Strategic Group Formation and Performance: The Case of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry, 1963--1982

Cool, Karel O.; Schendel, Dan - In: Management Science 33 (1987) 9, pp. 1102-1124

concept?; (2) does strategic group membership have performance implications?; and (3) are strategic groups and membership in … groups. The empirical setting is the U.S. pharmaceutical industry over the period 1963--82. While performance differences are … terms of risk and risk-adjusted performance. These results are attributed to the existence of performance variation within …

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Knowledge Sourcing Effectiveness

Gray, Peter H.; Meister, Darren B. - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 6, pp. 821-834

Much of the knowledge management (KM) literature focuses on ways to increase the volume of knowledge available to employees, ensure its quality, and improve its accessibility. Such supply-side arguments are limited to the extent that they do not address the demand for knowledge within...

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Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity

Steen, Eric Van den - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 10, pp. 1718-1738

This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture--in the sense of shared beliefs and values--in order to study the effects of "culture clash" in mergers and acquisitions. I first use a simple analytical framework to show that shared beliefs lead to more...

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A Theoretical Study of Organizational Performance Under Information Distortion

Carley, Kathleen M.; Lin, Zhiang - In: Management Science 43 (1997) 7, pp. 976-997

How should organizations of intelligent agents be designed so that they exhibit high performance despite information … distortion? We present a formal information-based network model of organizational performance given a distributed decision making … environment in which agents encounter a radar detection task. Using this model, we examine the performance of organizations with …

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Sources of Superior Performance: Market Share Versus Industry Effects in the U.S. Brewing Industry

Montgomery, Cynthia A.; Wernerfelt, Birger - In: Management Science 37 (1991) 8, pp. 954-959

Using financial measures of performance we investigate the sources of value creation in the U.S. brewing industry … and that the performance of individual leading firms is highly correlated. Our interpretation is that the success of …

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