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This dissertation addresses the question of choosing the best information alternative in engineering decisions. The decision maker maximizes his expected utility under uncertainty where both the action he takes and the state of the environment determines the payoff earned. The decision maker...
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Die Nutzung des Internet zur Vermarktung und zum Vertrieb von touristischen Produkten hat seit den neunziger Jahren ein rasantes Wachstum erfahren und dazu geführt, dass im Bereich des internetbasierten Tourismus eine besonders ausgeprägte Konkurrenzsituation zwischen den Anbietern...
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essay proposes a welfare valuation theory amenable to analyses in this context. The second essay proposes an empirical … strategy to implement the theory in practice, and demonstrates how policies may be misguided if regulators follow conventional … theory of green consumerism, which correctly accounts for asymmetric information and is consistent with empirical evidence …
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theory, development theory and structuralism have all made contributions to understanding the effects of this global …
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In this paper, we develop a decision-theoretic frameworkfor evaluating data mining systems, which employ classification methods, in terms of their utility in decision-making. The decision-theoretic model provides an economic perspective on the value of â extracted knowledge,â in terms of its...
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Hintergrund der Untersuchung ist die zunehmende Bedeutung von Humankapital als wettbewerbsentscheidendem Produktionsfaktor in modernen humankapitalintensiven Unternehmungen. Es stellt sich die Frage nach den Auswirkungen der Bedeutungszunahme und der Regelung des „Primärhumankapitals“, also...
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aspectsof economic theory in recent information systems research, leading toresults that have appeared in a wide variety of … theory are represented: information economics,production economics, economic models of organizational performance …,industrial organization, institutional economics (agency theory andtransaction cost theory), and macroeconomic studies of IT impact. Foreach …
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The aim of this paper is to explain Australian R&D capitalisation and voluntary disclosure. It is argued that the discretionary choices available to management in Australia with respect to the accounting for and the disclosure of R&D expenditure and activities can be explained by the reduction...
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The theory of Agency, specifically that developed by Jesen and Meckling (1976), will be the subject of examination …. Agency theory has been the subject of extensive research since its introduction in modern form by Jensen and Meckling (1976 …). The generality of the theory of Agency appears unquestionable and it has been widely adopted. Surprisingly, however, the …
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