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    INNOVATION WITHOUT CHANGE: THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN THEORIES-ESPOUSED AND THEORIES-IN-USE (1991)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Journal of management studies 28 (1991), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-6486
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: The reforms in many of the socialist countries have caused enterprises to re-evaluate their structures to adapt to a more turbulent environment. In one industry, the canned and fresh fruit and vegetable industry in Poland, managers created a new association designed to serve the industry through long-range planning and analysis of the environment. Managers from 30 enterprises in this industry were surveyed. Counter to the design of the association, managers used the association for short-term problem solving. This study further reveals that managers believe the association should operate in this fashion. This reflects the industry's general failure to make use of the innovation and to adapt to change.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.1991.tb00284.x
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    User Perceptions of Decision Support Effectiveness: Two Production Planning Experiments (1994)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Decision sciences 25 (1994), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1540-5915
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Decision support systems continue to be very popular in business, despite mixed research evidence as to their effectiveness. We hypothesize that what-if analysis, a prominent feature of most decision support systems, creates an “illusion of control” causing users to overestimate its effectiveness. Two experiments involving a production planning task are reported which examine decision makers' perceptions of the effectiveness of what-if analysis relative to the alternatives of unaided decision making, and quantitative decision rules. Experiment 1 found that almost all subjects believed what-if analysis was superior to unaided decision making, although using what-if analysis had no significant effect on performance. Experiment 2 found that decision makers were indifferent between what-if analysis and a quantitative decision rule which, if used, would have led to significant cost savings. Thus, what-if analysis did create an illusion of control: decision makers perceived performance differences where none existed, and did not detect large differences when they were present. In both experiments, decision makers exhibited difficulty realizing that their positive beliefs about what-if analysis were exaggerated. Such misjudgments could lead people to continue using what-if analysis even when it is not beneficial and to avoid potentially superior decision support technologies.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5915.1994.tb00516.x
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    Decisional Conflict and User Acceptance of Multicriteria Decision-Making Aids (1991)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Decision sciences 22 (1991), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1540-5915
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Despite the development of increasingly sophisticated and refined multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) methods, an examination of the experimental evidence indicates that users most often prefer relatively unsophisticated methods. In this paper, we synthesize theories and empirical findings from the psychology of judgment and choice to provide a new theoretical explanation for such user preferences. Our argument centers on the assertion that the MCDM method preferred by decision makers is a function of the degree to which the method tends to introduce decisional conflict. The model we develop relates response mode, decision strategy, and the salience of decisional conflict to user preferences among decision aids. We then show that the model is consistent with empirical results in MCDM studies. Next, the role of decisional conflict in problem formulation aids is briefly discussed. Finally, we outline future research needed to thoroughly test the theoretical mechanisms we have proposed.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5915.1991.tb00371.x
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    How Long Should a Customer Wait for Service? (1991)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Decision sciences 22 (1991), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1540-5915
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: A major concern for service managers is the determination of how long a customer should wait to be served. Services, due to the customer's direct interaction with the process, must face a trade-off between minimizing the cost of having a customer wait and the cost of providing good service. A total cost model is presented for determining how long a customer should wait when these two conflicting cost components are considered. An integral part of this model includes a measure of customer satisfaction with waiting time which is used to develop a waiting cost function. The model is then applied to a major fast food chain, using data collected at several locations. Analysis of the data reveals that the “ideal” waiting time for this firm is significantly less than the current corporate waiting time policy. Thus, as indicated by the model, a corporate policy change is recommended to provide much faster service. The adoption of such a policy would result in increased labor costs, and would simultaneously increase the firm's overall profits. Although appearing contradictory, increases in current labor costs and long-term profits are both possible when management takes the long-range perspective suggested in this paper.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5915.1991.tb00356.x
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    On the Goals of Successful Family Companies (1992)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Family business review 5 (1992), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1741-6248
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Sociology , Economics
    Notes: Providing clear goals for a company and communicating them are among the most powerful means for guiding the behavior of the people in an organization. In this article, we explore the range of objectives or goals of family-owned and -managed companies and identify those most commonly regarded as important by owner-managers. Further, we describe six major empirical dimensions of goals that we derived by factor-analytic procedures. Finally, we suggest how researchers, managers, and consultants can use our work to help owner-managers clarify and communicate their goals.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6248.1992.00043.x
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    The Impact of Family Dynamics on Structure and Process in Family Foundations (1990)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Family business review 3 (1990), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1741-6248
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Sociology , Economics
    Notes: This article presents the findings of an interview case study of six family foundations. The study explored the impact of family dynamics on organizational structure, grant-making procedures, board continuity, and board and staff interaction. The core finding was that developmental stage—as measured by generation, beginning with the founder—is of critical importance in understanding the operations of family foundations. The article concludes with a series of hypotheses for future research.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6248.1990.00357.x
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    The Role of Policy in Economic Development: comparisons of the East and Southeast Asian and Latin American experience (1994)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Asian Pacific economic literature 8 (1994), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-8411
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8411.1994.tb00123.x
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    Measuring the Performance of Banks (1993)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Business strategy review 4 (1993), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-8616
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Banks do not publish accounts in quite the same way as other companies, and nor should they. But they should not be immune to conventional standards of performance ranking and evaluation. This companion piece to Business Strategy Review articles on measuring company performance applies some performance benchmarking to a sample of European Banks. The result: they must do better.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8616.1993.tb00056.x
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    Is advertising rational? (1991)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Business strategy review 2 (1991), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-8616
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Advertising is not a process by which gullible consumers are persuaded to buy things they don't want, according to the authors of this paper. Instead, it furnishes consumers with some useful information. It is not so much the claims made by advertisers that are helpful, but the fact that they are willing to spend extravagant amounts of money on a product that is informative. The authors find tentative evidence for this view of advertising and discuss its implications.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8616.1991.tb00156.x
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    Who are the world's most successful companies? (1991)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Business strategy review 2 (1991), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-8616
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: It seems that everybody wants to know which companies are the most successful. To help throw light on the issue, and to do so more reliably than the plethora of league tables and charts produced by most business magazines, the London Business School have teamed up with The Economist to compile an assessment of the top performers of the 1980's.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8616.1991.tb00150.x
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