On explaining performance differentials

On explaining performance differentials Marketing and the managerial theory of the firm

Efforts to develop a managerially meaningful alternative to the neoclassical theory of the firm have always been an important part of theory development in marketing. This paper argues that the main explanandum of a managerial theory of the firm is performance differentials between firms. Marketing shares an interest in explaining performance differentials with strategic management and organiza...

Explaining Business Process Performance

business process improvement to a change in leadership. One hundred and eight respondents (32.2 percent) also pointed to planning as an important factor. Planning is included in the leadership group as it is most often a leadership initiative. Garland Elmore, associate vice president for teaching and learning information technology and dean of information technology at Indiana University, descr...

Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm*

The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more prevalent in the south. We consider a number of potential explanations for this fact: different individual backgrounds; group-interaction effects; sorting of workers across regions; differences in loca...

Organismal Differentials and Organ Differentials.

On Method of Statistical Differentials

The method of statistical differentials, which approximates the mean value and variance of transformations of random variables is used in many areas of mathematics. This paper will discuss the conditions under which such an approximation will be exact, and also explore their accuracy in terms of error bounds under certain moment conditions. AMS SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION (2000): 40A05, 41A10, 41A25...