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Managerial Behavior: Its Assessment and Implications
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Managerial behavior, pricing policies, and resource allocation within American universities and auxiliary health clinic enterprises
This dissertation proposes to explain differences in resource allocation and pricing policies within state and private universities, as well as within associated auxiliary health clinic enterprises. Economic theory predicts that managers within state universities will choose to spend relatively …
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A Comparative Study of Indices of Managerial Behavior Styles of Principals Certified by Means of Examinations
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Rational Corporate Risk Management Policy: An Extension of Traditional Risk Management Theory to Incorporate Observed Managerial Behavior
… The literature primarily contributes these behaviors to principal/agent conflicts. Evidence from studies on these deviations support strong arguments based in resource scarcity, cost and availability of capital, employee/community stability, and the increases in bankruptcy costs that these …
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An Analysis of the Relationship Between Teacher Collective Bargaining Activities and Altered Managerial Behavior in Selected Illinois School Districts
… the impact of collective bargaining on: (a) managerial decision-making, (b) contract administration, and (c) middle management authority.
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Management of small tourism business in rural areas
… and proposing a model to explain owner behavior in managing an agritourism business. The research data were collected through an Internet survey that targeted agritourism owners in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. An empirical review of the data finds the …
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The Effects of the Manager's Behavior on the Retention of High Potential Employees for Different Generations
The purpose of this study was to identify the behavior of the manager that affects the retention of high potential individuals within an organization. Research suggests that the reason why employees leave organizations is their manager. A high potential is defined as an individual who exhibits the …
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The agency cost of financial decision making: an empirical analysis
Jensen and Meckllng in "Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior and Capital Structure" [1976] introduced the concept that managers choose their ownership in the firm and leverage ratio to minimize agency costs. Easterbrook [1984] and Rozeff [1982] extended this notion with the hypothesis that …
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Profile of an effective engineering manager at the Naval Avionics Center
This thesis examines behaviors that affect the managerial effectiveness of first-level engineering supervisors (branch managers) at the Naval Avionics Center. Data were collected using a survey designed and administered by the authors and their advisors. The survey asked engineers to rate their …
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The Information Environment of Academic Library Directors: Use of Information Resources and Communication Technologies
… The purpose is to improve understanding of managerial behavior when using information resources and communication technologies within a shared information environment. Taylor's concept of an information use environment is used to capture the elements associated with information use and …
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Integration and corporate investment
… "the rules of the game" and mitigate negative managerial behavior through organizational processes such as rigid capital budgets, job rotation, centralization and hierarchies. These results point to a comparative advantage that a firm has over other financial intermediaries in allocating …
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An empirical analysis of a systems model of family resource management/
… factors were extracted from 34 items assessing managerial behavior. The resulting dimension scale scores represented throughput in the model. Output, by definition. encompasses individual satisfaction. Using Varimax rotated principal components analysis, seven factors were extracted from 19 …
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Property rights, internal labor markets and the organizational form of the firm
… of the firm as well as discretionary theories of managerial behavior. According to the transaction cost theory, the firm serves as an administrative substitute for costly market mechanisms. Meanwhile, discretionary theories assume that managers operate under a costly-to-impose capital market …
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The salesperson-manager exchange relationship: the impact of competence, latitude and loyalty
… focus of sales management studies which study managerial behavior in isolation from those of the salesperson he or she is supervising. The Leader-member Exchange theory (and the basis for this theory, social exchange) is offered as an approach which may be more consistent with the work-setting …
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Factors related to the implementation of developmental activities following participation in a diagnostic assessment center for middle managers
… center is a contemporary approach to identifying managerial potential for purposes of selection, placement, promotion, or development. This research determined the extent to which participants actually implemented developmental activities following assessment. The organization assumed that …
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Essays on monetary policy and financial markets in heterogeneous economies
… Great Recession. Chapter 3: Stock Overpricing, Managerial Incentives and Firm Investment: A Step Toward Firm-Level Heterogeneity This chapter examines how managerial compensation structures and market sentiment jointly influence managerial behavior and firm-level investment decisions. Drawing on …
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: DISCOVERIES ON HOW MANAGERS MANAGE AND THE CONDITIONS TO COLLABORATION
This paper studies managerial behavior in inter-firm supply chain relationships. I first answer two questions: When a firm outsources to a 3PL, a firm that provide multiple logistics services for use by customers, what is the impact on the managerial functions that the outsourcing firm carries out …
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Essays in Corporate Finance
… constraints and stock market valuation on the behavior of firms. The first essay explores the role of deal initiation and bidder asymmetry in determining the use of auction and target premia in merges and acquisitions. The second essay examines the behavior of the segments of conglomerates and …