This paper analyzes the determinants of the cross-national adoption of the international Environmental Management System standard ISO 14001 using a panel of 102 countries from 1996 to 2000. I use new institutional economics to develop hypotheses on the impact of the institutional environment on...

This paper develops a formal theory of the structural aspects of organizational change. It concentrates on the significance of changes in an organization's architecture and culture, each represented as a code system. A change is significant when it prompts other changes and generates a cascade...

What do Financial Markets Think of War in Iraq?

This paper develops a multi-agent dynamic model of the commercial aircraft industry and then uses that model to analyze industry pricing, performance, and optimal industry policy. In the model, firms are differentiated in their products and cost structure, and entry, exit, prices, and quantity...

We find that web traffic is relevant for explaining market values and stock returns of pure Internet companies after controlling for accounting information such as book and values earnings. However, we find weak associations between web traffic and sales levels and sales growth. We conjecture...

We study the electricity consumption of San Diego-area households following a series of price changes and related events during California's energy crisis in 2000-01. The analysis uses a five-year panel of disaggregate billing and weather data for a random sample of 70,000 households. In...

Two studies examined unconscious racial stereotypes of decision makers in the juvenile justice system. Police officers (Experiment 1) and juvenile probation officers (Experiment 2) were subliminally exposed to words related to the category Black or to words neutral with respect to race. In a...

We investigate how sociological argumentation differs from the classical first-order logic. We focus on theories about age dependence of organizational mortality. The overall pattern of argument does not comply with the classical monotonicity principle: adding premises does not overturn...

Two current trends, information overload combined with increased control of marketers (e.g., on the Internet) over the manner in which their products are sold and presented to buyers, suggest that deciding what information to provide or not to provide can determine a product's success in the...

Past empirical literature states that asymmetry in cross-price effect favors the large-share brand. That is, when large-share brands discount, they have a greater impact on small-share brands than the reverse. This conclusion is based on consideration of cross-price elasticities. This paper...