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previous empirical work on the adoption of evaluative practices in organizations with insights from institutional theory and …
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The paper theoretically analyses the effect of the introduction of the three-point-rule on the strategies in a soccer match. Therefore the expectation values for the goal difference at the end of the game under different strategies both for matches between equally strong teams and (more...
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The paper provides novel insights on the effect of a firm's risk management objective on the optimal design of risk transfer instruments. I analyze the interrelation between the structure of the optimal insurance contract and the firm's objective to minimize the required equity it has to hold to...
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Im klassischen Beitrag von Salant, Switzer und Reynolds (1983) wird für symmetrische Unternehmungen gezeigt, daß bei Verfolgung einer Mengenpolitik Fusionen zur Einschränkung des Wettbewerbs nur dann für die beteiligten Unternehmungen lohnend sind, wenn wenigstens 80 % der Unternehmungen an...
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In this paper we discuss a locational model with a profit-maximizing objective. The model can be illustrated by the followingsituation. There is a set of potential customers in a given region. A firm enters the market and wants to sell a certainproduct to this set of customers. The location and...
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the shut down decision is tackled, when shareholders are not able to maximise the total payoff accruing to both workers …
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This paper applies the theory of aspiration adaptation to industrial economics. It is motivated by the question …'s innovative activity. We develop a model of the management's decision-making relating a firm's competitive behavior, in particular … the decision to start the development of a new product generation, to the current and past values of the firm's growth …
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Akteuren, insbesondere von Unternehmen, nur vor dem Hintergrund einer Theorie der modernen Gesellschaft angemessen zu … Gesellschaft zielte, erscheint eine Konzentration auf die konzeptionellen Fragen einer Theorie der Gesellschaft einschließlich …
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and imitators. Imitators mimic the output decision of the most successful firms of the previous round a la Vega …-Redondo (1997). Optimizers play myopic best response to the opponents' previous output. The dynamics of the decision rules induce a … Markov chain. As expression of bounded rationality, firms are allowed to make mistakes and deviate from the decision rules …
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