The successful adoption of inter-organizational systems (IOS) requires the cooperation of participating firms with complex business and economic relationships. This study examines the impact of inter-organizational relationships on the adoption and diffusion of a category of IOS called Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) that supports the electronic transmission of business documents between two ...

In this research, a new method for market-product strategic planning is presented. In this method, an expert system is designed on the basis of identifying important factors that are effective in a firm and analyzing the logical relations between them. The objective is to develop a decision support system (DSS) for helping managers to make strategic decisions. DDS can serve as suitable replacem...

Objective: To assess the seminal characteristics of multiple ejaculates collected sequentially via masturbation or at intercourse using a semen collection device (Male Factor PakTM; MFPTM). Design: Three ejaculates were collected by patients over a 3 day period (1 semen specimen/day) via masturbation or at intercourse by using the MFPTM. Semen specimens were assessed for volume (ml), sperm coun...

This paper offers an organizational perspective on the firm in new economic geographies. It starts with the premise of the firm as a production function in neoclassical economics and a cost minimisation device in transaction cost economics. By pointing out the inadequacy in these mainstream economic perspectives on the firm, I draw upon recent behavioral and managerial theories to develop a rel...

In this paper we analyze the effects of information leakage on the incentives to innovate in firms. We analyze a situation in which an employee in a firm is inspired with a new idea for a product. In a framework in which Intellectual Property Rights on ideas are absent, we analyze the employee’s decision of whether to disclose the idea within the firm or to form a spin-out. We next look at the ...

This paper examines how executives’ compensation structure interacts with firm debt structure, and focuses on how executives’ compensation structure affects firm financing choice between secured debt and unsecured debt. Based on the compensation contracts, executives make corresponding investment and financing decisions for their firms. Therefore, different compensation structures may lead to d...

We address explicitly the issue of risk in the theory of the firm. To that end, we present a model in which the shareholders’ portfolio selection of assets and the decisions of the firm are jointly determined through the market process. The model allows to study the role of markets and prices on the type of risky activities undertaken by a firm and the allocation of random profit among sharehol...

In this paper we present feedback-based information roadmap (FIRM), a multi-query approach for planning under uncertainty which is a belief-space variant of probabilistic roadmap methods. The crucial feature of FIRM is that the costs associated with the edges are independent of each other, and in this sense it is the first method that generates a graph in belief space that preserves the optimal...