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This paper analyzes a capacity-planning and pricing problem of a monopolist facing uncertain demand. The model incorporates .soft. and .hard. capacity constraints (soft constraints can be relaxed at a cost while hard constraints cannot be relaxed) and demand uncertainty. The firm receives additional demand information within the planning horizon. The solution to the planning problem...

Building on the enactment perspective and past work on the self-fulfilling prophecy, this paper explores how organizational decline can be enacted through self-fulfilling prophecies of decline. We present two self-fulfilling prophecy-based models of organizational decline, one in which decline is enacted unintentionally through the predictions of an organization's managers, and...

A partir d’une analyse du secteur bancaire, cet article établit que les mécanismes de régulation de l’emploi que sont la flexibilité interne et externe sont bien déterminés par la spécificité du capital humain, conformément aux théories dualistes du marché du travail. Il montre ensuite que cette spécificité est marquée par l’encastrement des conseillers bancaires dans les réseaux...

Wer die Stadien finanziert; Während sich die Bundesliga-Profis im Urlaub befinden, ist an ihren Arbeitsstätten einiges los. Manche Stadien werden umgebaut, andere abgerissen und neu errichtet. Ziel ist, Austragungsort bei der WM 2006 in Deutschland zu werden. In loser Folge beschreibt diese Serie in den nächsten Wochen die spektakulärsten Veränderungen.. Von Helmut Dietl und Markus...

Institutions of Higher Education certify students' quality by issuing degrees and other credentials. Information asymmetries between the university and its clients, however, require valid signals of the universities' quality, too. A performance based university compensation scheme can be viewed as a bonding-mechanism. Tuition which is not contingent on the value added...