Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers
The interests and incentives of managers and shareholders conflict over such issues as the optimal size of the firm and the payment of cash to shareholders. These conflicts are ...
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Wireless communications principles and practice
From the Publisher: The indispensable guide to wireless communications—now fully revised and updated! Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Second Edition is the...
The Commitment-Trust Theory of Relationship Marketing
Relationship marketing—establishing, developing, and maintaining successful relational exchanges—constitutes a major shift in marketing theory and practice. After conceptualizin...
CAPITAL ASSET PRICES: A THEORY OF MARKET EQUILIBRIUM UNDER CONDITIONS OF RISK*
One of the problems which has plagued those attempting to predict the behavior of capital markets is the absence of a body of positive microeconomic theory dealing with conditio...
A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation
This paper proposes a paradigm for managing the dynamic aspects of organizational knowledge creating processes. Its central theme is that organizational knowledge is created thr...
A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future Research
The attainment of quality in products and services has become a pivotal concern of the 1980s. While quality in tangible goods has been described and measured by marketers, quali...
Foundations of social theory
As firms move toward a more disciplined approach to e-business strategic planning, managers are seeking metrics that will help them analyze the success of their e-business inves...
Competitive strategy : techniques for analyzing industries and competitors
Michael Porter presents a comprehensive structural framework and analytical techniques to help a firm to analyze its industry and evolution, understand its competitors and its o...
The Knowledge-Creating Company
Abstract How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been th...
On Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance
ABSTRACT Using a sample free of survivor bias, I demonstrate that common factors in stock returns and investment expenses almost completely explain persistence in equity mutual ...
Self-Reports in Organizational Research: Problems and Prospects
Self-reports figure prominently in organizational and management research, but there are several problems associated with their use. This article identifies six categories of se...