Why some children accept under-informative utterances

Speaker-specific pragmatic generalizations based on under- vs. over-informative utterances

Why Do Merchants Accept Credit Cards?

In this article, we investigate why merchants accept credit cards for payment despite the relatively high cost of processing these types of transactions. A two-period model is constructed to determine under what conditions a credit card equilibrium would exist. The results of the model indicate that when the cost of funds is not too high and when the merchant’s profit margin is sufficiently hig...

Why Some Physicians Accept Healthcare Information Technology and Others Resist It: an Activity-theoretic Analysis

This paper examines why physicians react differently to the introduction of healthcare information technology (IT) in the same hospital at the same time. These diverse reactions, manifested as different forms of acceptance and resistance, are interpreted within the socialhistorical context of physicians’ work at a large urban hospital in the USA, using Activity Theory as the theoretical lens. W...

Why some Jehovah's Witnesses accept blood and conscientiously reject official Watchtower Society blood policy.

In their responses to Dr Osamu Muramoto (hereafter Muramoto) Watchtower Society (hereafter WTS) spokesmen David Malyon and Donald Ridley (hereafter Malyon and Ridley), deny many of the criticisms levelled against the WTS by Muramoto. In this paper I argue as a Jehovah's Witness (hereafter JW) and on behalf of the members of AJWRB that there is no biblical basis for the WTS's partial ban on bloo...

Sold below Value? Why Some Targets Accept Very Low and Even Negative Takeover Premiums

Although many studies acknowledge negative premiums, there exists no theoretical or dedicated empirical analysis of the phenomenon. In our sample of 1,937 US mergers (1995 to 2011), 8.4 percent of all targets received o ers with negative premiums where the initial bid undercuts the pre-announcement market price. We theoretically show that target overvaluation, market liquidity and `hidden earno...