Managerial and Decision Economics

1997 - 2008

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Volume 29, issue 2-3, 2008

Frontiers of strategic management research: introduction to the special issue pp. 71-77

Catherine A. Maritan and Margaret A. Peteraf

Customer preference discontinuities: a trigger for radical technological change pp. 79-97

Mary Tripsas

Regulatory reform and managerial choice: an analysis of the cost savings from airline deregulation pp. 99-116

Margaret Peteraf and Randal Reed

Institutional settings and rent appropriation by knowledge-based employees: the case of Major League Baseball pp. 117-136

Aya S. Chacar and William Hesterly

Splitting the pie: rent distribution in alliances and networks pp. 137-148

Jeffrey H. Dyer, Harbir Singh and Prashant Kale

The influence of inertia on contract design: contingency planning in information technology service contracts pp. 149-163

Kyle J. Mayer and Janet Bercovitz

Does familiarity breed trust? Revisiting the antecedents of trust pp. 165-190

Ranjay Gulati and Maxim Sytch

Competitive advantage in alliance governance: resolving the opportunism minimization-gain maximization paradox pp. 191-208

Mark H. Hansen, Robert E. Hoskisson and Jay B. Barney

Determinants of firm-specific thresholds in acquisition decisions pp. 209-225

Timothy B. Folta and Jonathan P. O'Brien

Investing in capabilities: bidding in strategic factor markets with costly information pp. 227-239

Catherine A. Maritan and Robert E. Florence

Position, leverage and opportunity: a typology of strategic logics linking resources with competitive advantage pp. 241-256

Christopher B. Bingham and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

Playing football in a soccer field: value chain structures, institutional modularity and success in foreign expansion pp. 257-276

Michael G. Jacobides

What determines the profitability of foreign direct investment? A subsidiary-level analysis of Japanese multinationals pp. 277-292

Mariko Sakakibara and Hideki Yamawaki

Volume 29, issue 1, 2008

Warranties as a device to extract rent from low-risk users of a product pp. 1-7

David Hakes and Dongsoo Shin

Product line extensions: causes and effects pp. 9-21

Kostas Axarloglou

Strategic inventory in capacitated supply chain procurement pp. 23-36

Pınar Keskinocak, Kasarin Chivatxaranukul and Paul M. Griffin

The role of productive efficiency on entry and post-entry performance under different strategic orientation: the case of the Greek plastics and rubber industry pp. 37-55

Kostas Tsekouras, Dimitris Skuras and Irene Daskalopoulou

Matching rules pp. 57-70

Vincy Fon and Francesco Parisi

Volume 28, issue 8, 2007

Trust and formal contracts in interorganizational relationships - substitutes and complements pp. 833-847

Thomas Mellewigt, Anoop Madhok and Antoinette Weibel

Contests with investment pp. 849-862

Johannes Münster

Corporate investments and growth options pp. 863-877

Jeffrey J. Reuer and Tony W. Tong

Corporate governance and the returns to acquiring firms' shareholders: an international comparison pp. 879-896

Dennis C. Mueller and B. Burcin Yurtoglu

Bargaining over managerial contracts in delegation games: managerial power, contract disclosure and cartel behavior pp. 897-904

Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Thijs Jansen and Arie van Lier

Volume 28, issue 7, 2007

Price rigidity and flexibility: new empirical evidence pp. 639-647

Daniel Levy

Small price changes and menu costs pp. 649-656

Saul Lach and Daniel Tsiddon

The mechanics of price adjustment: new evidence on the (un)importance of menu costs pp. 657-668

Rajesh Chakrabarti and Barry Scholnick

Thick markets, market competition and pricing dynamics: evidence from retailers pp. 669-677

Kostas Axarloglou

Follow the leader: price change timing in Internet-based selling pp. 679-700

Robert J. Kauffman and Charles A. Wood

Why do prices rise faster than they fall? With an application to mortgage rates pp. 701-712

Linda A. Toolsema and Jan Jacobs

The dynamics of daily retail gasoline prices pp. 713-722

Michael Connelly Davis

Asymmetric price adjustment: evidence from weekly product-level scanner price data pp. 723-736

Georg Müller and Sourav Ray

Price rigidity and market power in German retailing pp. 737-749

Anke Weber and Sven M. Anders

The frequency and size of price adjustment: microeconomic evidence pp. 751-762

Attila Rátfai

Retail prices during a change in monetary regimes: evidence from Sears, Roebuck catalogs, 1938-1951 pp. 763-775

Andrew T. Young and Alexander K. Blue

Are they always offering the lowest price? An empirical analysis of the persistence of price dispersion in a low inflation environment pp. 777-788

Sebnem Bahadir-Lust, Jens-Peter Loy and Christoph R. Weiss

Price variability and price dispersion in a stable monetary environment: evidence from German retail markets pp. 789-801

Matthias R. Fengler and Joachim Winter

Hierarchical delays as a source of nominal price rigidities: evidence from the microcomputer industry pp. 803-815

Michael J. Hicks

Non-price rigidity and cost of adjustment pp. 817-832

Georg Müller, Mark Bergen, Shantanu Dutta and Daniel Levy

Volume 28, issue 6, 2007

Price rigidity and flexibility: recent theoretical developments pp. 523-530

Daniel Levy

The frequency and costs of individual price adjustment pp. 531-552

Alexander L. Wolman

A sociological view of costs of price adjustment: contributions from grounded theory methods pp. 553-567

Mark J. Zbaracki

Optimal price promotion in the presence of asymmetric reference-price effects pp. 569-577

Gadi Fibich, Arieh Gavious and Oded Lowengart

Production, inventory and waiting time pp. 579-589

Gil S. Epstein

Costly price adjustment and the optimal rate of inflation pp. 591-603

Jerzy D. Konieczny

Explaining hump-shaped inflation responses to monetary policy shocks pp. 605-617

James Yetman

Price rigidities, inventories, and growth fluctuations pp. 619-631

Chris Tsoukis and Naveed Naqvi

The real effects of inflation in continuous versus discrete time sticky price models pp. 633-638

Wai-Yip Alex Ho and James Yetman

Volume 28, issue 4-5, 2007

Editorial pp. 229-229

John A. Vernon and Richard L Manning

Dynamic competition in pharmaceuticals: cross-national evidence from new drug diffusion pp. 231-250

Ernst R. Berndt, Patricia M. Danzon and Gregory B. Kruse

'Branded Generics' as a strategy to limit cannibalization of pharmaceutical markets pp. 251-265

David Reiffen and Michael R. Ward

Uncertainty and choice: the challenges of pharmaceutical efficacy, safety, and cost pp. 267-283

F.M. Scherer

Commentary pp. 285-291

Joseph A. DiMasi

The cost of US pharmaceutical price regulation: a financial simulation model of R&D decisions pp. 293-306

Thomas A. Abbott and John A. Vernon

Mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries pp. 307-328

Patricia M. Danzon, Andrew Epstein and Sean Nicholson

Effects of profit-reducing policies on firm survival, financial performance, and new drug introductions in the research-based pharmaceutical industry pp. 329-351

Darren Filson and Neal A. Masia

Commentary pp. 353-355

Joseph Golec

Determinants of drug prices and expenditures pp. 357-370

William S. Comanor and Stuart O. Schweitzer

Pharmaceutical-embodied technical progress, longevity, and quality of life: drugs as 'Equipment for Your Health' pp. 371-392

Frank Lichtenberg and Suchin Virabhak

An industrial organization perspective on the influenza vaccine shortage pp. 393-405

F.M. Scherer

Drug and vaccine pricing and innovation: what is the story? pp. 407-413

Mark V. Pauly

A primer on the economics of re-importation of prescription drugs pp. 415-435

Ernst R. Berndt

Commentary pp. 437-438

Tomas J. Philipson

Entry and competition in generic biologics pp. 439-451

Henry G. Grabowski, David B. Ridley and Kevin A. Schulman

Commentary pp. 453-454

Tomas J. Philipson

Product differentiation, competition and regulation of new drugs: the case of statins in four European countries pp. 455-465

Panos Kanavos, Joan Costa-i-Font and Alistair McGuire

Commentary pp. 467-468

Tomas J. Philipson

The cost of biopharmaceutical R&D: is biotech different? pp. 469-479

Joseph A. DiMasi and Henry G. Grabowski

New estimates of pharmaceutical research and development spending by US-based firms from 1984 to 2003 pp. 481-483

Joseph Golec and John A. Vernon

Benefits and costs of newer drugs: an update pp. 485-490

Frank Lichtenberg

Generic competition and market exclusivity periods in pharmaceuticals pp. 491-502

Henry G. Grabowski and Margaret Kyle

The role of different types of health insurance on access and utilization: comparative results on two chronic conditions (hypertension and diabetes type II without complication) pp. 503-507

Christine Huttin

Rx Roulette: combatting counterfeit pharmaceuticals in developing nations pp. 509-520

Kristina M. Lybecker

The truth about the drug companies, by Marcia Angell, Random House: New York, 2004. xx +305 pp., $24.95 pp. 521-522

F.M. Scherer

Volume 28, issue 3, 2007

Do stable strategic time periods exist? Towards new methodological and theoretical insights pp. 171-180

Juan Manuel de la Fuente-Sabaté, Julio Rodríguez-Puerta, José David Vicente-Lorente and José Angel Zúñiga-Vicente

Organisational susceptibility to fraud and theft, organizational size and the effectiveness of management controls: some UK evidence pp. 181-193

Paul Barnes and Jill Webb

Managerial expertise, learning potential and dynamic incentives: get more for less? pp. 195-211

Christian Lukas

New Institutional Economics' contribution to strategic groups analysis pp. 213-228

Stephane Tywoniak, Peter Galvin and Jennifer Davies

Volume 28, issue 2, 2007

The strategic use of managerial incentives in a non-profit firm mixed duopoly pp. 83-91

Gregory E. Goering

If you play well they will come-and vice versa: bidirectional causality in major-league baseball pp. 93-105

Ira Horowitz

Investment in organizational capital pp. 107-113

Orlando Gomes

Credible collusion in multimarket oligopoly pp. 115-128

Timothy L. Sorenson

Bank monitoring, managerial ownership and Tobin's Q: an empirical analysis for India pp. 129-143

Saibal Ghosh

Firm governance and duopoly: in weakness may lie strength pp. 145-155

Malcolm P. Brady

The paradox of inelastic sports pricing pp. 157-158

Philip K. Porter

Reply to 'the paradox of inelastic sports pricing' pp. 159-160

Rodney Fort

A further clarification of OCRA and its properties in response to Wang and Wang (2005) pp. 161-168

Celik Parkan

Notorious murders, black lanterns, & moveable goods: the transformation of Edinburgh's underworld in the early nineteenth century, by Symonds, D. A., Series on International Political and Economic History, University of Akron Press: Akron, OH; 2006, xiv+180pp., USD 39.95 (cloth) pp. 169-170

William F. Shughart

Volume 28, issue 1, 2007

Rural Internet access: over-subscription strategies, regulation and equilibrium pp. 1-12

SeungJae Shin, Martin B. Weiss and Jack Tucci

Efficient organization of information processing pp. 13-26

Jacek Cukrowski and Manfred M. Fischer

Patterns of corporate governance and technical efficiency in Italian manufacturing pp. 27-40

Sergio Destefanis and Vania Sena

Preliminary evidence on the appointment of institutional solutions to franchisor moral hazard-the case of franchisee councils pp. 41-55

Olivier Cochet and Thomas Ehrmann

Hidden monopsony rents in winner-take-all markets-sport and economic contribution of Spanish soccer players pp. 57-70

Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio and Francesc Pujol

Correction of errors in Vetschera's (2004) model of behavioral uncertainty and investment pp. 71-76

G.A. Tularam and A.S. Soomro

Response to Tularam and Soomro pp. 77-78

Rudolf Vetschera

Handbook of sports economics research, edited by Fizel, J. Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2006, Viii+280pp., USD 75.95 (cloth) pp. 79-80

John Charles Bradbury

Contract theory, by Bolton, P. and Dewatripont, M. MIT Press: Cambridge and London. 2005, xvi+724 pp., USD 65.00 (cloth) pp. 81-82

Atin Basuchaudhary