School of Business Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Political Institutional Change, Obsolescing Legitimacy, and Multinational Corporations: The Case of the Central American Banana Industry
(Springer Verlag, 2012-12)This paper studies the practice of integration of influential host country actors to a multinational corporation as a strategy to decrease problems of legitimacy to the foreign firm before the host country’s society. By ... -
Venture Capitalists' Decision to Withdraw: The Role of Portfolio Configuration From a Real Options Lens
(Social Science Research Network, 2012)When does a venture capital firm withdraw from an investment project prior to its completion? This study offers a real options view on this decision by examining the contingent effects of portfolio configuration. We explore ... -
A Dynamic Model of the Choice of Mode for Exploiting Complementary Capabilities
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)This paper examines the choice of mode for an MNC and a local firm to exploit their complementary capabilities. We develop a combined real options and game-theoretic model of modal choice by incorporating a range of factors ... -
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Firm Resources and Industry Characteristics on Firm-Specific Profitability
(Springer Verlag, 2007)Using a dynamic heterogeneous panel data model, we examine the relationship between firm-specific resources (corporate management capabilities, employee value-added and technological competence) and firm-specific profitability ... -
Rethinking Rouse and Daellenbach's Rethinking: Isolating Versus Testing for Sources of Sustainable Competitve Advantage
(Wiley, 2002)In a recent paper, Rouse and Daellenbach (1999) provide a five-step methodological approach which they feel will cure alleged inadequacies in empirical resource-based research. We suggest, however, that their methodology ... -
Product Life Cycle, and Market Entry and Exit Decisions Under Uncertainty
(Springer Verlag, 2001)A key characteristic of the product life cycle (PLC) is the depletion of the product’s market potential due to technological obsolescence. Based on this concept, we develop a stochastic model for evaluating market entry ... -
Option to Acquire or Divest a Joint Venture
(Wiley, 2000)This paper develops a model for assessing options in joint ventures. The model is used specifically to examine the option to acquire or divest a joint venture, both in the case where the acquisition/divestiture price is ... -
An Economic Analysis of Matrix Structure, Using Multinational Corporations as an Illustration
(Wiley, 1998)This paper applies a comparative institutional perspective to the organizational design called matrix structure. After discussing the motivations for a multidimensional form of organization, the paper compares the transaction ... -
The Structuring of Interfirm Exchanges in Business Know-How: Evidence from International Collaborative Ventures
(Wiley, 1997)This study investigates the effects of transaction cost considerations on the apportionment of residual bearing and the assignment of managerial control between two firms involved in the exchange of business know-how. Data ... -
Optimal Stopping Rule for a Project with Uncertain Completion Time and Partial Salvageability
(IEEE, 1997)In this paper, we developed an optimal stopping model for the control of an investment project that takes an uncertain length of time to develop and can still provide a partial payoff even if it is terminated without ... -
Trading in Strategic Resources: Necessary Conditions, Transaction Cost Problems, and Choice of Exchange Structure
(Wiley, 1994)The paper develops a theoretical framework for analyzing the exchange structure in the trading of imperfectly imitable and imperfectly mobile firm resources. It first explores the conditions for such resources to be gainfully ... -
Cognitive Limitations and Investment "Myopia"
(Wiley, 1997)Optimization of investment decisions in an uncertain and dynamically evolving environment is difficult due to the limitations of the decision maker’s cognitive capacity. Thus, actual investment decisions may deviate from ... -
Collaborative Ventures and Value of Learning: Integrating the Transaction Cost and Strategic Option Perspectives on the Choice of Market Entry Modes
(Palgrave Macmillan, 1996)This paper employs a simple stochastic model to investigate how transaction cost and strategic option considerations interact to influence a firm’s evaluation of collaborative venturing as a market entry mode. After ... -
The Belief-Function Approach to Aggregating Audit Evidence
(Wiley, 1995)In this article, we present the belief-function approach to aggregating audit evidence. The approach uses an evidential network to represent the structure of audit evidence. In turn, it allows us to treat all types of ... -
Propagating Belief Functions in AND-Trees
(Wiley, 1995)We describe a simple method for propagating belief functions in AND-trees. We exploit the properties of AND-trees to make our method simpler than the general method discussed by Shenoy and Shafer, and Dempster and Kong. ... -
Evidential Reasoning for WebTrust Assurance Services
(M.E. Sharpe, 2000)This study looks at two aspects of assurance services. The first deals with the type(s) of evidential networks that will allow a professional accountant to provide assurance. Here, we develop an evidential network model ... -
A Formal Model of Auditor Independence Risk
(Wiley, 2002)Although the published literature on auditor independence is extensive, an accepted comprehensive theory, framework or model of auditor independence risk does not exist. This paper develops a formal model of auditor ... -
Applications of Belief Functions in Business Decisions: A Review
(Springer, 2003)In this paper, we review recent applications of Dempster-Shafer theory (DST) of belief functions to auditing and business decision-making. We show how DST can better map uncertainties in the application domains than Bayesian ... -
Application of Uncertain Reasoning to Business Decisions: An Introduction
(Springer, 2003)