This paper describes an abductive process model of anomalous data integration. The model makes use of the entrenchment. of the current explanation (amount of data explained) and the probability of alternative explanation~. It is hypothesised that increasing confirmation of the anomaly itself increases the probability of alternative explanations. In an experimental study we found that both the e...

We discuss and examine empirically a firm-level equivalent of the ancient problem of ‘tying the King’s hands’, namely how to avoid managerial intervention that is undertaken to reap private benefits but is harmful to overall value creation, that is, ‘managerial opportunism’. The link from managerial intervention to firm-level value-creation is moderated by employee motivation. Thus, interventio...

The principle of categorial matching that has been invoked to mandate that transformations of theories by contraction removing some proposition h from a belief state K should include a specification of the entrenchment of the new belief state K − h as well as the entrenchment of the initial state K masks a substantial assumption that ought to be subject to critical scrutiny and which personally...

In this article, we study the potential for digital, online information and electronic voting to improve shareholder surplus by facilitating a new governance structure, owner-governance, which shifts control of the takeover decision from the board to shareholders. We compare analytical models of owner-governance to the current practice of delegatedgovernance in the context of increasing availab...