Journal: Management Science

Found 3158 papers in total
Agility and Proximity Considerations in Supply Chain Design
2017,
Strategic supply chain design decisions are critical to the long‐term success...
Does Gender Diversity Promote Nonconformity?
2017,
Failure to express minority views may distort the behavior of company boards,...
Fee or Free: When Should Firms Charge for Online Content?
2017,
Many online content providers aim to compensate for a loss in advertising revenues by...
Signaling Low Margin Through Assortment
2017,
Oftentimes, close competitors carry partially overlapping assortments in seeming...
Licensing Contracts: Control Rights, Options, and Timing
2017,
Research and development (R&D) collaborations, common in high‐tech...
Past the Point of Speeding Up: The Negative Effects of Workload Saturation on Efficiency and Patient Severity
2017,
Service organizations face a trade‐off between high utilization and...
Stochastic Dominance Analysis Without the Independence Axiom
2017,
We characterize the consistency of a large class of nonexpected utility preferences...
Ensembles of Overfit and Overconfident Forecasts
2017,
Firms today average forecasts collected from multiple experts and models. Because of...
Private Equity and Industry Performance
2017,
The growth of the private equity industry has spurred concerns about its impact on the...
Disagreement, Underreaction, and Stock Returns
2017,
We explore analysts’ earnings forecast data to improve on one popular...
Contract Structure for Joint Production: Risk and Ambiguity Under Compensatory Damages
2017,
We develop a model in which the parties to a joint production project have a choice of...
First-Order and Second-Order Ambiguity Aversion
2017,
Different models of uncertainty aversion imply strikingly different economic behavior....
Optimal Time-Inconsistent Beliefs: Misplanning, Procrastination, and Commitment
2017,
We develop a structural theory of beliefs and behavior that relaxes the assumption of...
Rare Disasters, Credit, and Option Market Puzzles
2017,
We embed systematic default, procyclical recovery rates, and external habit...
The Behavior of Investor Flows in Corporate Bond Mutual Funds
2017,
This paper provides a comprehensive examination of money flows in corporate bond...
Do Empty Creditors Matter? Evidence from Distressed Exchange Offers
2017,
In this paper, I examine the effect of credit default swaps (CDSs) on the...
Closed-Form Solutions for Robust Inventory Management
2017,
We propose and analyze robust optimization models of an inventory management problem,...
The User Innovation Paradigm: Impacts on Markets and Welfare
2017,
Innovation has traditionally been seen as the province of producers. However,...
Choosing the Devil You Don’t Know: Evidence for Limited Sensitivity to Sample Size‐Based Uncertainty When It Offers an Advantage
2017,
Many decision makers seek to optimize choices between uncertain options such as...
Optimal Strategies for Flood Prevention
2017,
Flood prevention policy is of major importance to the Netherlands since a large part...
Optimal Sales Force Compensation in Dynamic Settings: Commissions vs. Bonuses
2017,
This paper studies optimal sales force compensation plans in a multiperiod...
Frenemies: How Do Financial Firms Vote on Their Own Kind?
2017,
The financial sector is unique in being largely self‐governed: the majority of...
Geography and the Market for CEOs
2017,
I examine the role of geography in the market for CEOs and find that firms hire...
Adverse Incentives in Crowdfunding
2017,
This paper analyzes the substantially growing markets for crowdfunding, in which...
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