This study carries out an empirical test of the order-winners framework in manufacturing organizations. Hill [Hill, T., 1985. Manufacturing Strategy: The Strategic Management of the Manufacturing Function, first ed. Macmillan, Basingstoke; Hill, T., 2000. Manufacturing Strategy: Text and Cases, second ed. Palgrave, Basingstoke] proposed the order-winners framework to help managers to improve un...

We present four methods of assessing the diversification potential within a stockmarket, two of these are based on principal component analysis. They were applied to theAustralian stock exchange for the years 2000 to 2014 and all show a consistent picture. Thepotential for diversification declined almost monotonically in the three years prior to the 2008financial crisis. On one ...

This paper presents a computational economics model of the property-liability insurance underwriting cycle. This computer experiment is built on downward-sloping demand, a simplistic version of the capacity constraint model of insurance supply, and a simple pricing rule. The pricing rule has each experimental insurer determine its price from the expected losses per-policy (a constant), the prev...

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Although prior moral motivation research has focused on prototypic views of moral character—i.e., prosociality—in these studies we identify a broader set of ethical orientations, based on Triune Ethics Metatheory. These reflect different types of motivated cognition 1 that correspond to different neurobiological patterns of social response (see also chapter 4 for additional varieties). In this ...

Dixon, D., Analysis tool or research methodology? Is there an epistemology for patterns?, 2012, Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author’s original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive version of this piece may be found in Understanding Digital Humanities edited by David M. Berry which can be accessed from www.palg...

While some of the questions have been around since Berle and Means (1932), the term \corporate governance" did not exist in the English language until twenty years ago. In the last two decades, however, corporate governance issues have become important not only in the academic literature, but also in public policy debates. During this period, corporate governance has been identi ed with takeove...

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to unfold there is an untold number of trade-offs being made in every country around the globe. The experience in the United Kingdom and Canada to date has not seen much uptake of health economics methods. We provide some thoughts on how this could take place, specifically in three areas. Firstly, this can involve understanding the i...

Bireysel ve sosyal teoriden hareket eden bu makalede, Akerlof Kranton’la bağdaştırılan kimlik iktisadı yaklaşımı, kendi tanımsal teknik çıkmazları üzerinden eleştirel bir şekilde değerlendirilmektedir. Bu değerlendirme, konusunu ana akım iktisadi yöntemlerle ele almanın kısıtlarıyla ilgili dışsal eleştiriyi de beraberinde getirir. Gerçekten ikinci eleştiri, kavrayışları – postmodernizm yana esa...

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