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Organizational contexts and management accounting systems: an evaluation of contingency frameworks

Moores, Ken; Chenhall, Robert H. - 1991

Application of contingency frameworks to management accounting research comenced in the mid 1970s and dominated organizational level research throughout the 1980s. Despite this popularity there have been persistent criticisms directed at issues of theory and method. This paper reviews...

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Change agents and the evolution of the United States pharmaceutical industry, 1920--1960

Lee, Jeho - 1996

This dissertation examines the evolution of the market and the firms in the context of an emerging innovative race in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. The history shows the existence of two distinct industry regimes. Before 1940, the industry can best be characterized as a competitive regime in...

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"Your Life is Waiting!": Symbolic Meanings in Direct-to-Consumer Antidepressant Advertising

Grow, Jean; Park, Jin Seong; Han, Xiaoqi - 2006

This semiotic analysis demonstrates how pharmaceutical companies strategically frame depression within the hotly contested terrain of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising. The study tracks regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, relative to DTC advertising, including recent industry codes of...

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Consumer construction of the agricultural biotechnology industry's legitimacy: An empirical test of values congruency as institutional and actional legitimacy formation

Mosley, Raul A - 2006

institutional legitimacy) and to market drug-producing crops called Plant Made Pharmaceuticals (an instance of actional legitimacy …. Consumers were more slightly more likely to acknowledge the industry's right to market Plant Made Pharmaceuticals (r = .257 … as a big business entity and to market Plant Made Pharmaceuticals. …

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Perspectives on Firm Decision Making During Risky Technology Acquisitions

Powell, Adam C. - 2011

A novel survey dataset on computed tomography (CT) machine acquisition is used to explore which theories best answer two questions from the decision making literature. First, what determines how much uncertainty a firm has when investing in updated technology? Second, what determines the value...

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Does the Profit Motive Make Jack Nimble? Ownership Form and the Evolution of the U.S. Hospital Industry

Chakravarty, Sujoy; Gaynor, Martin; Klepper, Stephen; … - 2005

We examine the evolving structure of the U.S. hospital industry since 1970, focusing on how ownership form influences … hospital chain significantly decreases the probability of exit for for-profits, but not not-for-profits. …

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Does the Profit Motive Make Jack Nimble? Ownership Form and the Evolution of the U.S. Hospital Industry

Chakravarty, Sujoy; Gaynor, Martin; Klepper, Steven; … - 2005

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ESSAYS ON THE MACROECONOMICS OF INCOME INEQUALITY

Ozkan, Serdar - 2011

This thesis consists of three chapters, each of which focuses on different aspects of economic inequality.First, we investigate the differences in wage inequality between the United States and continental European countries (CEU). Wage inequality has been significantly higher in the US compared...

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International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years

Hyder, Asma; Behrman, Jere R - 2011

The extent of openness to international trade may alter incentives differentially by gender for labor force participation, particularly in economies in which gender differentials in human capital investments such as schooling are large and in which norms about gender behaviors are strong. This...

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In the footsteps of the Silicon Valley? Indian and Irish software in the international division of labour

Arora, Ashish; Gambardella, Alfonso; Torrisi, Salvatore - 2001

This paper analyses the development of software in India and Ireland. The development patterns of the software industry in Ireland and India clearly show both the advantages and disadvantages of being a follower. The most obvious advantage is the ability to sustain growth without a broad based...

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