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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Essay One: Explaining the Start and Fizzle of Organizational Change: Co-evolving Process and Content The theme that sustaining efforts to change is difficult appears in many guises throughout the organizations. The tendency ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Complex goods and processes require ever more sophisticated and specialized knowledge; harnessing multiple kinds of expertise to execute tasks, solve problems, and develop strategies is increasingly critical to organizations' ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)In the first part, we study the problem of minimizing a separable concave function over a polyhedron. We assume the concave functions are nonnegative nondecreasing on R+, and the polyhedron is in RI' (these assumptions can ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Academics and practitioners have long been interested in understanding the sources and causes of innovative activity and the relationship between innovation and industrial change. Existing theory assumes innovative activity ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The thesis investigates the costs and benefits of free competition as opposed to central regulation to coordinate the incentives of various participants in a market. The overarching goal of the thesis is to decide whether ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Pricing of a perishable product over a multi-period time horizon is a challenging problem under an oligopolistic market framework. We propose and study a model for multi-period pricing in an oligopolistic market for a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Organizations face increasing pressure to improve internal conflict management, which has led to experimentation with different types of dispute resolution components. These include: Rights-based processes, in which ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The innovative firm must continually evaluate its boundaries - decisions often shaped through make-buy-partner evaluations and choices about where to define the firm's competences. Building off of earlier work that suggests ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Numerous important real-world problems are found in the areas of transportation and logistics. Many of these problems pose tremendous challenges due to characteristics such as complex networks, tightly constrained resources, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This dissertation raises two questions: How do customers come to understand and use a technology? What is the influence of customers using a technology on industry evolution and competition? I use two historical cases to ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)The catalog industry is a large and important industry in the US economy. One of the most important and challenging business decisions in the industry is to decide who should receive catalogs, due to the significant mailing ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)In this thesis I explore the connections between changes to the formal procedures by which American labor unions enroll new members and the subsequent meanings and purposes that potential members and third parties attribute ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)In this paper, I examine the ex post and ex ante benefits of conservatism to lenders and borrowers in the debt contracting process. First, I argue that conservatism benefits lenders ex post through a timely signal of default ...
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