I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. Corporate headquarters receives two types of signals about investment opportunities: private signals that can be distorted by managers, and public signals that are undistorted but noisy. Headquarters faces a tradeoff between the cost of atta...

In this paper, we propose the Real-time Disaster Damage Information Sharing System for the disaster countermeasures headquarters at the time of large-scale natural disaster. This Real-time Disaster Damage Information Sharing System consists of the Post Damage Picture Smartphone Application, the Post Damage Picture Facebook Application, and the Web-GIS Disaster Information Management Site. The P...

This paper describes a continuing study which uses a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research methods to identify factors which facilitate organizational and other types of collaborative learning. In this study, such learning is termed ‘social learning’, and refers to those factors which enable the sharing of knowledge and practice, and which foster generative learning. This paper’s spe...

A global airline has cargo operations in multiple nations and locations. In this paper, we study optimal policies for managing sales agents. At present, for each flight, headquarters retains a portion of the total capacity and allocates the rest to sales agents. Capacity retained by the headquarters is used only after the allocated capacity is exhausted. While each agent is allowed to use any p...

This paper develops a model of firm dynamics in global competition and experimentally analyzes multinational growth strategies and optimal coordination of innovative activities. It shows that growth and innovation strategies of operatively engaged headquarters (business or corporate) with a geocentric focus dominate alternative concepts, like ethnocentric, financial or flexible headquarters. Th...

NASA has completed its evaluation of the 2006 applications to the Earth System Science (ESS) Graduate Student Fellowship Program, as well as the Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) applications with specifications of both "Earth Science" and "Headquarters." A total of 181 applications were received by the Earth Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in ...

In the title mol-ecular salt [systematic name: triethylammonium 5-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)-2,6-dioxo-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyrim-idin-4-olate], C(6)H(16)N(+)·C(10)H(5)N(4)O(7) (-), the cation and anion are linked by an N-H⋯O hydrogen bond. In the crystal, inversion-related barbiturate rings are centrosymmetrically connected through pairs of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming R(2) (2)(8)R(2) (2)(8) ring motifs.

THE ASYMMETRIC UNIT OF THE TITLE COMPOUND [SYSTEMATIC NAME: 9,10-dimeth-oxy-7-methyl-6,7,7a,8-tetra-hydro-5H-benzo[g][1,3]benzodioxolo[6,5,4-de]quinoline], C(20)H(21)NO(4), contains two independent mol-ecules with very similar bond lengths and angles. The crystal packing exhibits voids of 131 Å(3).

This study investigates how headquarters’ involvement affects the efficiency of transfer price negotiations. Although prior research explores autonomous negotiations, evidence suggests that headquarters can become involved in these particularly after they fail. likely intention is to overcome inefficiencies arising from decentralized managers’ inability agree on a price, we suggest such reduce ...

This paper develops and tests a multi-level organization contingency theory for designing headquarters-subsidiary relations. We use frontier analysis to overcome problems that have hampered advancements in organizational contingency theory in general, and headquarters-subsidiary relationships in particular. Based on a longitudinal study of a large medical group practice of 32 local community cl...