Empirical studies have documented large pre-bid target stock price runups, suggesting significant effects of target stock market on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) outcomes. To understand such effects, we develop an informational feedback model in which a target learns from its stock price about...

Managing highly skilled employees is extremely complex because of the need to balance the costs and time lags associated with their training against the need to meet demand as quickly as possible. Unlike previous approaches to this problem in the staffing literature, this paper develops an...

The System Dynamics methodology is used in this article as unifying approach in order to show how a number of theories about the performance of territories developed in the past 20 years can integrate the one with the other; to demonstrate this, a model of local economy coherent with these...