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Showing 1 to 20 of 12977 for “"decisions"”.
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Corporate dividend decisions
… the testable hypotheses by linking the dividend decisions of IPOs with a number of firm characteristics and IPO-specific factors in the context of the theories relating to dividends and IPO. I find a strong negative relation between underpricing and the propensity of dividend initiation. This …
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Successfully implementing strategic decisions: The implementation of top level decisions in organizations.
… the implementation of eleven strategic decisions in six organizations. The decisions concern the installation of new technology, the carrying out of various building programmes and the re-organization of organizational structures The organizations comprise a university, a water …
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Design, decisions and dialogue
This thesis presents a design for an Intelligent Educational System to support the teaching of design evaluation in engineering. The design consists of a simple computerbased tool (or 'learning environment') for displaying and manipulating infonnation used in the course of problem solving, with a …
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Financial decisions of households
… digit of numerical information when making decisions. This paper tests for the existence of left-digit bias in the consumer credit card market. Using a regression-discontinuity design, I find sharp increases in credit card repayments around $1,000 monthly balance thresholds. The estimated …
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How coaches influence referee decisions
… in non-professional soccer can influence referee decisions. Modeled from a principal-agent perspective, the managing referee boards can be seen as the principal. They aim at facilitating a fair competition which is in accordance with the existing rules and regulations. In doing so, the referees …
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Managerial Decisions: A Discursive Analysis
Decision making activity is at the heart of organisations and, as an essential managerial function, it has been the subject of an immense body of literature. As the majority of research has been undertaken within the disciplines of economics and psychology, studies have tended to emphasise economic …
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ESSAYS ON EDUCATION INVESTMENT DECISIONS
… focus on parental educational investment decisions in China. In Chapter 1, I explore how parents' belief affect their investments in children's education using a randomized field experiment with parents of high school students in China. I document two types of information frictions that …
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An investigation of navigational decisions
This work is concerned with an examination of how the Merchant Navy Navigators use the information provided by the different aids. It is divided into three main parts. First are a series of experiments where seafarers studying for their Master’s certificate were presented with cards containing …
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Corporate Venture Capital Investment Decisions
… understand corporate entrepreneurial investment decisions and has business policy implications.
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Police Disposition Decisions With Juveniles
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Enabling effective product launch decisions
… of optimizing the performance of product launch decisions-in particular, the decisions of product development duration and manufacturing ramp-up. It presents an innovative model for measuring product launch performance and optimizing the decisions by integrating a design structure matrix model …
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Optimizing inbound freight mode decisions
… and retail arm. The current process around these decisions has yielded lower than anticipated improvements to service level. This thesis (1) reframes the goal of expediting inbound freight in quantitative, measurable terms that more directly impact the business outcomes, (2) develops an …
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A tool for sourcing decisions
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Elmés döntések. Heurisztikus folyamatok a beszállítóválasztási döntésekben = Clever decisions. Heuristic processes in supplier selection decisions
A dolgozat központi fogalma a heurisztika, amely kifejezés alatt leegyszerűsítő szabályokat, hüvelykujjszabályokat, vagy, ahogy Kindler József nevezi: gondolkodásegyszerűsítést értünk. A dolgozat az ilyen leegyszerűsítéseket pozitív szemlélettel mutatja be és vizsgálja a bennük rejlő lehetőségeket. …
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Key factors influencing nutraceutical purchase decisions
… the significance of fear in driving consumer decisions to purchase nutraceutical products. Overall, this research shed light on the interplay between fear and consumer behaviour in the nutraceutical market. It offers valuable insights for both academia and industry stakeholders.
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