The debate between adaptation and inertia hinges on whether theorists believe that organizations can effect purposive organizational change in which the realized structures match the planned structures. To date, research on organizational change has yielded few insights into the conditions under...

Firms continue to develop new ways to decentralize non-core activities to outside parties. Scholars have approached this issue with modularity theory, suggesting a continuum of arrangements ranging from hierarchy to market. Hierarchy relies on fiat, while partially modular forms, those forms...

The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of pricing across industries, environments, and methodologies. The Handbook illustrates the wide variety of pricing approaches that are used in different industries. It also covers the diverse range of...

We show the existence of Nash equilibria in a Bertrand oligopoly price competition game using a possibly asymmetric attraction demand model with convex costs under mild assumptions. We show that the equilibrium is unique and globally stable. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to show the...

A flexible product is a menu of two or more alternative, typically substitute, products offered by a constrained supplier using a sales or booking process. The supplier reserves the right to assign customers who purchase a flexible product to one of the alternatives at a time near the end of the...

The fields of statistics and econometrics have developed powerful methods for testing the validity (specification) of a model based on its fit to underlying data. Unlike statisticians, managers are typically more interested in the performance of a decision rather than the statistical validity of...

This note provides Monte Carlo evidence illustrating that feasible and true GLS estimators of the Baltagi and Griffin (1988) generalized error component model do not have the same sampling behavior. Indeed, while the true GLS estimator is consistent, a feasible GLS estimator need not be, an...

This note provides an AECM (alternating expectation conditional maximization) algorithm for calculating maximum-likelihood estimates of stratified error-components models. An advantage it has over other algorithms is that it can be easily modified to incorporate useful restrictions on the...

Social contract theory offers a powerful method and metaphor for the study of organizational ethics. This paper considers the variant of the social contract that has arguably gained the most attention among business ethicists: integrative social contracts theory or ISCT [Donaldson and Dunfee:...

This note provides Monte Carlo evidence illustrating that feasible and true GLS estimators of the Baltagi and Griffin (1988) generalized error component model do not have the same sampling behavior. Indeed, while the true GLS estimator is consistent, a feasible GLS estimator need not be, an...