Assessing the information systems (IS) function within organizations has been identified as a critical issue for both executive and IS management. Unfortunately, despite the importance of the issue, little progress has been made in agreeing on appropriate measures of the contribution of the IS function to an enterprise. There is evidence that this lack of progress in defining measures of IS per...

Individual attainment within organizational careers, or career mobility, has been explained by individual attributes and by demographic processes. These seemingly unrelated views can be reconciled by suggesting that employees develop a shared perception of their organization's career hierarchy, and that this shared perception produces systematic managerial selection preferences that influence i...

To remain competitive, supply chain managers must constantly improve their processes and react to evergrowing and evolving customer preferences in a changing business environment. However, many companies have reached diminishing returns for many of their business processes. Digitization has begun to change product offerings and these changes could be the next great source of competitive advanta...

Stakeholders who seek to reward or punish businesses for their environmental programs often cannot observe these organizations’ internal policies and operations. To address these informational problems, and signal their beyond-compliance environmental commitments, some businesses are participating in voluntary environmental programs (VEPs). This article examines whether business managers associ...

This paper proposes a new approach for gauging the performance of branch managers of a financial institution by defining a Measure of Internal Performance (MIP). Our proposal is different from others existing in the literature in two main aspects. Firstly, it is consistent with the requirements of internal evaluation because it uses the managers’ real preferences instead of assuming them. Secon...

INTRODUCTION Meeting conventional market driven consumer demand is the most cost-effective way to succeed in business and marketing managers are keenly aware of this issue. Yet, wine produced in sub-regions overshadowed by a larger country or state of origin or even located next to a well known region is often overlooked and not considered mainstream. There is some discussion whether wines prod...

In this study, we adopt the classic capacitated p-median location model for the solution of a network design problem, in the domain of electric charge station network design, for a leading company in Turkey. Our model encompasses the location preferences of the company managers as preference scores incorporated into the objective function. Our model also incorporates the capacity concerns of th...

This paper is an empirical study of the market for managers, more speci…cally the e¤ects of agency, human capital, and preferences on their promotion, tenure, turnover and compensation. From a large longitudinal data set compiled from observations on executives and their publicly listed …rms, we construct a career hierarchy and report on its main features. Our summary results motivate a dynamic...

It is generally conceded that dividend pricing models are poor predictors of asset prices. This finding is sometimes attributed to excess volatility or to a dividend process manipulated by firm managers. In this paper, we present rather powerful panel tests of the dividend pricing relation using a unique data set in which dividends are set by market forces independent of managers’ preferences. ...

This paper compares how managers value knowledge from internal and external sources. Although many theories account for favoritism toward insiders, we find that preferences for knowledge obtained from outsiders are also prevalent. Two complementary case studies and survey data from managers demonstrate the phenomenon of valuing external knowledge more highly than internal knowledge and reveal s...