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Financial characteristics of acquiring and acquired firms
(1984-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This study considers the financial characteristics of the firms involved in a merger to determine if the acquiring firm purchases a firm with financial characteristics that are complementary to ...
Risk and capital budgeting: A case study using flexible manufacturing
(1984-12)
Scope and Method of Study: This study examines the issues of and risks involved in choosing between capital investment projects which use either traditional or flexible manufacturing techniques. Three unique measures of ...
Impact of calculative and normative forces on tax compliance behavior
(1984-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This study measures the impact of various subvariables of normative and calculative restraining forces on compliance with tax legislation. The subvariables for normative forces are: acceptance ...
Descriptive look at staffing and patient loads at Stillwater Medical Center
(1984-07)
Scope and Method of Study: One of the more difficult jobs confronting the hospital administrator is estimating the level of nurse staffing needed to meet patient requirements. The further in advance these estimates can be ...
Computerized system reliability: Simplified Topological Reliability Analysis Program (STRAP1): Minimum Path Method (MPM)
(1984-05)
In 1978 Satyanarayana and Prabhaker (S&P) published a paper on topological reliability analysis for single source-to-single terminal networks as an alternative to classical inclusion-exclusion. The method uses a tree-search ...
Reducing transaction costs through investment in multinational corporations
(1984-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This study examines the possibility of reducing transaction costs through investment in multinational corporations ( MNCs). It is hypothesized that to attain a level of total risk equivalent to ...
Are performance ratings revealed to peers?
(1984-05)
Scope and Method of Study: A formalized statistical, ex-post facto study was made to determine if performance ratings are revealed to peers. Confidential questionnaires were distributed to employees of Corporate Engineering ...
National trends in hospital advertising
(1984-07)
Scope and Method of Study: A national survey of hospitals is conducted in this study to determine the extent of the use of advertising by hospitals and the general attitude toward advertising by persons currently working ...
Women students and career goals: A study of their attitudes, aspirations and expectations for careers in business
(1984-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This study assessed the attitudes of women enrolled in senior and graduate level classes in a college of business administration toward career, marriage, and family. Additional purposes of the ...