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Tariff-Specific Preferences and Their Influence on Price Sensitivity
Wolk, Agnieszka; Skiera, Bernd - 2010
For many services, consumers can choose among a range of optional tariffs that differ in their access and usage prices. Recent studies indicate that tariff-specific preferences may lead consumers to choose a tariff that does not minimize their expected billing rate. This study analyzes how...
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Decision Making under Ambiguity
Dominiak, Adam - 2010
This thesis deals with decision making under ambiguity. Ambiguity refers to situations in which probabilities for uncertain events are partially known. Ambiguitysensitive behavior, as manifested in Ellsberg-type experiments, is today a widely studied phenomenon, then, first of all, there is an...
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Optimistic Managers & Their Influence on Productivity & Employee Engagement in a Technology Organization
Greenberg, Margaret H; Arakawa, Dana - 2006
) organization, positive leadership correlated with employee optimism, engagement, and project performance. When we looked at a … subset of this data prospectively, with 39 employees and 14 managers, manager optimism predicted project performance. Our … the importance of optimism in the workplace. …
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Do managers alter the tone of their earnings announcements around stock option grants and exercises?
Tama-Sweet, Isho - 2009
ix, 69 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
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Ignorance is bliss: the information malleability effect
Mishra, Himanshu Kumar - 2006
. However, pre-action, no such difference occurs. I term this inconsistency in optimism in the pre and post-action stage, the … decisions based on malleable information. On the other hand, research on situated optimism has demonstrated that people exhibit … a high level of optimism for events they consider more desirable and they distort the available information to make the …
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A Unilateral Accident Model Under Ambiguity
Teitelbaum, Joshua C. - 2007
accident risk and cannot accommodate optimism (ambiguity loving) or pessimism (ambiguity aversion). This paper presents a …) with ambiguity if he is optimistic (pessimistic) and decreases (increases) with his degree of optimism (pessimism). The …
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Psichologiniai pardavimų sėkmės veiksniai
Tymšan, Agnė - 2010
of the research: questionnaire of demographic characteristics, Life Orientation test-Revised to measure optimism, NEO … distinguished by higher optimism, greater extroversion, higher counsciousness and lower neuroticism than the unsuccessful ones. …
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Subordinate-manager gender combination and perceived leadership style influence on emotions, self-esteem and organizational commitment
McColl-Kennedy, Janet R.; Anderson, Ronald D. - 2005
, perceived leadership style, experienced frustration and optimism, organization-based self-esteem and organizational commitment … subordinates' levels of frustration and optimism. Female manager-female subordinate had the largest probability of optimism, while …
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The feasibility of the statement of generally accepted accounting practice for small and medium enterprises / Daniël Petrus Schutte
Schutte, Daniël Petrus - 2011
Governments are becoming increasingly aware of SMEs as economical role players. As a result many initiatives were introduced to address the unique challenges of the SME sector. One of these initiatives was the introduction of a global accounting framework for SMEs by the International Accounting...
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Time is on my side: optimism in intertemporal choice
Berndsen, M.; Pligt, J. van der - 2001
The present research, using data from 163 undergraduates, examines the role of optimism on time preferences for both … losses and gains. It is argued that optimism has asymmetric effects on time preferences for gains versus losses: one reason … in the future. Optimism about outcomes affects time preferences for both gains and losses, such that low optimism reduces …
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