Browsing by Subject "Decision making"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The study reported here was an attempt to gain insight into the decision behavior of auditors when making a risk assessment. Although acknowledged by the profession and the auditing literature as being necessary to the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The emergence of an idea champion is an essential ingredient in the process of strategic change. The idea champion provides energy to move the system, yet "we know practically nothing about this activity" (Daft & Bradshow, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)An interactive microcomputer-based system to support multiple objective decision making predicated upon goal programming techniques has been developed. Two major phases constitute this research. In the first phase, performance ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)The profitability of ranch operations are largely dependent on stochastic prices and range conditions. These variables are stochastic, but not entirely beyond the influence of ranchers. Current management decisions will ...
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Perceptions of decision makers whose programs impact rural sector women in less developed countries (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of selected decision makers concerning gender issues related to international rural sector development programs. A survey questionnaire designed to answer ten ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)Previous research on auditor judgment has concentrated on the judgments made by external (independent) auditors in a variety of settings. In contrast to those studies, the research reported in this dissertation investigates ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This research deals with subjective probabilities and their use in decision-making. Two theories that predict behavior in this context are tested using the methods of experimental economics. An articulation of the theory ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)Optimal (profit and utility maximizing) fertilizer levels are computed based on normative decision guides developed from experimental data on grain sorghum yield/fertilizer levels over an eight year (1977-1984) period, as ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)The goal of this research was to develop a better understanding of how risk attitudes influence vacation behavior. An exploratory field study was conducted to evaluate the risk attitude--vacation behavior relationship. A ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)This study examines how people make decisions under risk and uncertainty. The laboratory experiments are conducted to test some existing models of decision making. The experimental design in this study is different from ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)Production processes involve considerable uncertainty. In decision making, the availability of information concerning the random variables is important. In this study information about random variables is evaluated for an ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)This research synthesized the work done to date on models of ethical decision-making behavior. It empirically examined the relative importance of many of the previously untested factors in these earlier models. It also ...
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(2011-02-22)This dissertation offers a new understanding about wartime decision making in the face of likely, but unintended, harm to foreign civilians. It empirically identifies conditions under which leaders in democratic nations ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)This study began with the idea that managers make business-level strategic decisions both by adapting to circumstances and by exercising analytical choice processes. Industry competitive conditions were proposed to affect ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)The purpose of this research is to examine the question of who initiates restructuring, the board or top management. The proposed model of who initiates restructuring incorporates organizational economics (agency theory ...