Browsing by Subject "Decision making"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)The present study provides additional evidence of the conditions which may lead to the employment of the anchoring and adjustment heuristic in auditor judgment. Ten randomized groups of experienced public accountants ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)Problem solving in integrated pest management (IPM) is a complex procedure involving the use of mathematical models and rapidly proliferating information. The effectiveness of an IPM decision-maker is a function of how ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Engineering design is a complex and ill defined procedure. Design is a highly heuristic problem solving activity which involves problem definition, solution or strategy selection (search among alternatives), trade off ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)The current rate of deterioration of highway bridges in the United States has created the need for a comprehensive bridge management system (BMS). This need has also been recognized in Texas, necessitating the development ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)An interactive microcomputer-based system which provides economic analysis support through Life cycle costing for the design, development and implementation of manufacturing systems has been designed and a prototype ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The research reported in this dissertation investigates whether or not decision makers adequately adjust their information processing in response to a change in accounting methods. Initially, the decision makers are asked ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The primary purpose of this dissertation was to investigate possible relationships between problem-solving styles of accountants and the materiality decision-making process, Problem-solving styles were derived from Jung's ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Successful decisions largely depend on correct interpretation of data. Today, our ability to collect and present data outstrips our ability to interpret it. This situation has been called "information input overload" (Miller ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)This study used college students to examine the effects of achievement and gender upon decision-making skill during an ego-involved and a non-ego-involved task while controlling for intelligence, locus of control, and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Knowledge utilization represents a relatively new area of study in the marketing discipline. This dissertation focuses on expanding this area of study by examining the knowledge utilization process. This dissertation ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)Much previous research exists concerning auditor judgment in a variety of judgment settings. However, the research reported in this dissertation investigates the judgments made by auditors concerning the perceived level ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The study examined the product evaluation policies used by product managers when making product continuance/discontinuance decisions. Product elimination propensity (PEP) was the primary dependent variable of interest. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)The objectives of the study were to: (1) investigate the ways in which decision makers adapt their information search strategies in response to increases in the supply of information; and (2) assess whether the personality ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2012)The present paper aims at describing the methodology and presents some final results of a work developed in the field of building energy benchmarking applied to the buildings of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, based ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)The purpose of this research was to evaluate the usefulness of Light's Retention Scale (LRS) as a measure of retention candidacy with elementary school children. Major questions of the study concerned 1) differences between ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)Modeling outdoor recreation participation has been conducted since the early 1960s, with limited explanatory power of the models used. A review of the literature indicates that one promising area of research is the "Personal ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)This investigation was structured to examine relationships between variables of effective engagement and questioning techniques with teachers' knowledge of reading content, theoretical reading orientation and rank-ordering ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)Ethical/unethical behavior in the organization is proposed to be a function of both the environment (organizational variables) and the person (individual difference variables). Organizations can influence ethical decision ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)This research effort proposes to develop and test an integrated and extended model of strategic decision making. The model is developed using an interactionist framework that emphasizes the relevance of both the person and ...