Pricing of certain items (mainly durables) involves two components: purchase cost and maintenance cost. The interaction between both cost components is commonly referred to by the term Life Cycle Cost (LCC). Previous studies indicate that potential buyers are not always aware of the adverse...

An environmental policy approach gaining increasing acceptance among regulators, industry, and environmental groups is the use of market-based instruments. The growth of such programs results in an important research need to understand how organizations respond to these tools. <P>Our managerial and...</p>

Recent analyses of baseball managers' performances have employed the so-called 'Pythagorean Theorem' of baseball. This 'theorem' states that the ratio of wins to losses can be approximated by the square of the ratio of team runs scored to opposition runs scored. Recent publications assume this...

Environmental management requires, among other things, the incorporation of environmentally friendly technologies into production processes of environmentally friendly technologies into production processes at the producer level and the adoption of energy consumption patterns which save energy...

In December 1995, Congress overrode a presidential veto to enact the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. This legislation was aimed at curbing abuses in class action securities litigation, and providing firms with relief from frivolous lawsuits brought on the basis of stock price...

Securities Transactions Taxes (STTs) are intended to reduce or eliminate excessive volatility in stock prices caused by short-term speculative trading. To examine the implicit assumption that stock price volatility is caused by short-term trading, we investigate the relationship between...