Three published approximation formulae for selecting the best multiattribute alternative based on rank-ordered weights are evaluated. All formulae are surprisingly efficacious in determining the best multiattribute alternative. Rank order centroid (ROC) weights are more accurate than the other...

Those management and social scientists dealing with organizational behavior are severely limited by the need for more operational theory and by the paucity of experimental data on important events and phenomena. The many practical and conceptual reasons why experiments in the classical sense...

This paper examines compensation for the underwriting activity in firm commitment initial public offerings (IPOs) of common stock in the U.S. When compensation for origination, management and marketing efforts are excluded from total underwriter compensation, we find that the portion of the...