Generalized additive models have become a widely used instrument for flexible regression analysis. In many practical situations, however, it is desirable to restrict the flexibility of nonparametric estimation in order to accommodate a presumed monotonic relationship between a covariate and the response variable. For example, consumers usually will buy less of a brand if its price increases, an...

We develop a multi-tasking model in which a firm can devote its efforts either to increasing sales growth, or to improving per-unit profit margins by, e.g., cutting costs. If the firm’s manager is concerned with the current stock price, she will tend to favor the growth strategy at those times when the stock market is paying more attention to performance on the growth dimension. Conversely, it ...

We provide a broad characterization of the supply chain settings in which perfect coordination can be achieved with a simple wholesale pricing scheme based on constant unit wholesale prices or a single quantity discount scheme. We confine ourselves to two-echelon chains with a single supplier servicing a network of retailers who compete with each other by selecting retail prices (Bertrand compe...

S Saatchi (1) , N. L. Harris 2 , S. Brown 2 , S. Hagen 3 , W. Sales, and M. Lefsky 3 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA. [email protected] (2) Winrock International, Ecosystem Services Unit, 2121 Crystal Drive Suite 500, Arlington, VA (3) Applied GeoSolutions, LLC, 87 Packers Falls Road, Durham, NH 03824 (4) Warner College of Natural Resour...

By the 1980s many of the companies across the world had realized a new ConceptCause Related Marketing (CRM) as a marketing strategy. Cause Related Marketing is defined as “a strategic positioning and marketing tool that links a company or a brand to a relevant social cause or issue, for mutual benefit”. CRM became the vehicle by which companies indirectly propagandized their brands and it has p...

We assess the utility of synthetic control, a recently developed empirical methodology, for applications in organizational research. Synthetic control acts as a bridge between qualitative and quantitative research methods by enabling researchers to estimate treatment effects in contexts with small samples or few occurrences of a phenomenon or treatment event. The method constructs a counterfact...

Prior research on demographic diversity in work teams has yielded mixed results, with the effects of team diversity ranging from positive to neutral to negative. This article shows that an improved understanding of the relationship between team diversity and team performance can be reached by considering the combined effects of team diversity and demographic social context. We hypothesized that...