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Purchasing function of three major oil companies in the United States
(1985-05)
Scope of Study: The role of purchasing in the oil companies has been undergoing significant changes since the oil embargo in the 1970's. Three oil firms with headquarters relatively close together were selected to determine ...
Development of a risk identification framework for merging technology assessment and environmental assessment into a systems approach
(1975-04)
Purpose of Study: The awareness of advancing technologies and their impacts on quality of life has resulted in two separate activities, namely technology assessment and environmental assessment. Technology assessment has ...
Total performance measurement case application: Phillips Petroleum Company
(1980-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The study relates profitability of an organization with the productivity and pricing over or under recovery on resources. The theory was based on cost accounting price -volume - cost concepts and ...
Essays on asset liquidity, cash holdings, and the cost of corporate debt
(2015-12)
This dissertation examines the relationship between the ability of a firm to sell its real assets (asset liquidity) and its cash holdings behavior as well as its cost of debt. In essay 1, I show that for financially ...