This paper briefly examines status amongst individuals in contemporary workplace organizations from an evolutionary perspective. The core thesis of this paper is that social and cultural explanations for status fail to adequately explain the pervasiveness of status in organizational contexts. An...

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The 1971 ban on TV and radio advertising of cigarettes offers a unique opportunity to uncover the industry response to a change in the mix of advertising. Following the ban, advertising expenditures were shifted away from TV and radio towards print media. Accounting for the impact of this event...

Two popular approaches for efficiency measurement are a non-stochastic approach called data envelopment analysis (DEA) and a parametric approach called stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Both approaches have modeling difficulty, particularly for ranking firm efficiencies. In this paper, a new...

Although many believe that women's low representation among top executives and lower average income is primarily a result of socialization and discrimination, findings of psychology, biology, and anthropology suggest that evolutionarily derived temperamental sex differences exist that may...

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Involuntary and voluntary managerial job-termination hazard functions are estimated for English professional soccer for the period 1972-1997. A novel feature is the use of match-level data, which reveals aspects of the hazard otherwise concealed by estimation using annual data. Short-term...

Conventional duopoly models typically assume agents possess specific conjectures concerning other agents' behavior. In this paper equilibrium conjectures are endogenous and are a result of a joint factor market and product market equilibrium. Factor markets affect product markets since potential...

An empirical investigation of the downsizing-productivity relationship has emerged from the USA. This paper presents further evidence drawn from another country's experience. Detailed commentary on key trends in the UK motor vehicle industry informs an analysis applying the Baily et al. [Baily,...

In this paper, a spatial model is used to endogenously determine product locations and prices when consumers have an elastic demand with a finite reservation price. I show under which condition a two-stage Bertrand-Nash equilibrium yields maximal product differentiation with full market...