Business Administration: Recent submissions
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The golden rule of forecasting: objections, refinements, and enhancements
(Elsevier, 2015-08)In providing a “golden rule” for forecasting, Armstrong, Green, and Graefe (this issue) raise aspirations that reliable forecasting is possible. They advocate a conservative approach that mainly involves extrapolating from ... -
Conceptualizing a research paradigm for multi-objective modelling in supply chain management
(Wiley, 2015)The primary objective of this paper is to offer a particular research paradigm framework that takes into consideration ontological, epistemological, methodological and axiological assumptions for a more meaningful and ... -
Cross-efficiency in DEA: a maximum resonated appreciative model
(Elsevier, 2015-03)The occurrence of multiple optimal solutions is an important and interesting issue in data envelopment analysis (DEA), for it allows flexibility to estimate the optimal cross-efficiencies of all decision making units (DMUs). ... -
Communicating forecasts: the simplicity of simulated experience
(Elsevier, 2015-08)It is unclear whether decision makers who receive forecasts expressed as probability distributions over outcomes understand the implications of this form of communication. We suggest a solution based on the fact that people ... -
The two settings of kind and wicked learning environments
(Association for Psychological Science, 2015-10)Inference involves two settings: In the first, information is acquired (learning); in the second, it is applied (predictions or choices). Kind learning environments involve close matches between the informational elements ... -
Poverty and intersectionality: a multidimensional look into the lives of the impoverished
(Sage, 2014-06)Subsistence consumers are disadvantaged and marginalized on many levels, including financial deprivation, poor health, lack of access to resources, and social stigmatization. The disadvantages experienced by subsistence ... -
Make it your own: how process valence and self-construal affect evaluation of self-made products
(Wiley, 2014-06)Self-production, participation of consumers in the production process of products for their own consumption, leads to consumers' enhanced evaluations of the self-made products. Three experimental studies investigate how ... -
Outpatient appointment scheduling in presence of seasonal walk-ins
(Springer Nature, 2014-04)This study investigates appointment systems (AS), as combinations of access rules and appointment-scheduling rules, explicitly designed for dealing with walk-in seasonality. In terms of 'access rules', strategies are tested ... -
Emerging market exposures and the predictability of hedge fund returns
(Wiley, 2014)We examine emerging market and global macro hedge funds and find a significant positive relation between hedge funds' future returns and their exposure to both emerging market equities and emerging market currencies. We ... -
Consumer attitude metrics for guiding marketing mix decisions
(Informs, 2014-08)Marketing managers often use consumer attitude metrics such as awareness, consideration, and preference as performance indicators because they represent their brand's health and are readily connected to marketing activity. ... -
Ranking the predictive performances of value-at-risk estimation methods
(Elsevier, 2012)We introduce a ranking model and a complementary predictive ability test statistic to investigate the forecasting performances of different Value at Risk (VaR) methods, without specifying a fixed benchmark method. The ... -
A universal appointment rule in the presence of no-shows and walk-ins
(Wiley, 2012-07)This study introduces a universal “Dome” appointment rule that can be parameterized through a planning constant for different clinics characterized by the environmental factors—no-shows, walk-ins, number of appointments ... -
A critical spatial approach to marketplace exclusion and inclusion
(American Marketing Association, 2013-05)The authors apply insights from critical spatial theory to explore how space can be reimagined to be more inclusive. The meaning of spaces includes (1) objective physical space, (2) subjective imagined space, and (3) lived ... -
Ideology and brand consumption
(Sage, 2013-03)Do mundane daily choices, such as what brands people buy in a supermarket, reflect aspects of values and ideologies? This article presents a large-scale field study performed to determine whether traits associated with a ... -
The joint evolution of alliance networks and technology: a survey of the empirical literature
(Elsevier, 2013-09)In this paper, we provide an overview and assessment of existing empirical literature on the joint evolution of alliance networks and technology. We selected 38 empirical studies that investigate this joint evolution and ... -
Expert competition and the internet
(IJEC, 2013)The Internet has become a channel for experts offering their services. We investigate the optimal online channel adoption strategy of a high-quality expert with a brick-and-mortar presence in the face of potential entry ... -
Passive and active opportunism in interorganizational exchange
(American Marketing Association, 2013-11)This article examines how firms in interorganizational relationships respond differently to active and passive opportunism and observes how these opportunism forms erode satisfaction with the performance of these relationships. ... -
Moral habitus and status negotiation in a marginalized working-class neighborhood
(Oxford University Press, 2013-12)Examinations of the moral and ethical dimensions in identity construction are scant in consumer research. This ethnography of a trailer-park neighborhood investigates how different moral dispositions shape low-income, ... -
Assessing consequences of component sharing across brands in the vertical product line in the automotive market
(Wiley, 2012-07)Component sharing may look great in the boardroom, but not in the showroom. Indeed, savings on R&D and production costs could be offset by a plunge in customer brand attractiveness. Combining experimental with econometric ... -
What is special about marketing organic products? How organic assortment, price, and promotions drive retailer performance
(American Marketing Association, 2013-01)Higher sales and margins are key goals for retailers promoting emerging products, such as organics, but little is known about their marketing effectiveness and their cross-effects on conventional product sales. Extant ...
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