Search Results - subject:"INFORMATION processing"

A Micro-Level Approach to Organizational Information Processing

Wald, Andreas - In: Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) 61 (2009) 3, pp. 270-289

Based on network analytical techniques, in this paper I extend information-processing theory to the micro level and … develop a new approach to directly analyze information processing within individual organizations. I introduce the concept of … information fit for measuring organizational information processing capacity. To demonstrate how the approach can be applied …

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An investigation of nonprofessional investors' qualitative materiality judgments incorporating SEC listed vs. non-listed events

Pinsker, Robert; Pitre, Terence J.; Daigle, Ronald - In: Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 28 (2009) 5, pp. 446-465

When the SEC began listing specific potentially material events in its Regulation FD [Regulation Fair Disclosure, 2000. SEC Release 33-7881, Rules 101-103], it deviated from its long-time "policy" of not providing materiality guidance to auditors and managers. What is currently unclear in the...

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Asymmetries in Information Processing in a Decision Theory Framework

Santos-Pinto, Luís - In: Theory and Decision 66 (2009) 4, pp. 317-343

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Framing effects as violations of extensionality

Bourgeois-Gironde, Sacha; Giraud, Raphaël - In: Theory and Decision 67 (2009) 4, pp. 385-404

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—The Researcher as a Consumer of Scientific Publications: How Do Name-Ordering Conventions Affect Inferences About Contribution Credits?

Maciejovsky, Boris; Budescu, David V.; Ariely, Dan - In: Marketing Science 28 (2009) 3, pp. 589-598

When researchers from different fields with different norms collaborate, the question arises of how name-ordering conventions are chosen and how they affect contribution credits. In this paper, we answer these questions by studying two disciplines that exemplify the two cornerstones of...

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Beyond Attention Effects: Modeling the Persuasive and Emotional Effects of Advertising Creativity

Yang, Xiaojing; Smith, Robert E. - In: Marketing Science 28 (2009) 5, pp. 935-949

While creativity in advertising is a growing area of marketing research, relatively little is known about how the effects of creativity are produced. Accordingly, this research explores the basic persuasive (i.e., desire to postpone closure) and emotional (i.e., positive affect) mechanisms...

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Human Error and Organizational Management

DEACONU, Alecxandrina; RASCA, Lavinia - In: Economics and Applied Informatics (2009) 2, pp. 147-154

The concern for performance is a topic that raises interest in the business environment but also in other areas that – even if they seem distant from this world – are aware of, interested in or conditioned by the economy development. As individual performance is very much influenced by the...

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Fault tolerance of information processing in gene networks

Emmert-Streib, Frank; Dehmer, Matthias - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 388 (2009) 4, pp. 541-548

The major objective of this paper is to study the fault tolerance of gene networks. For single gene knockouts we investigate the disturbance of the communication abilities of gene networks globally. For our study we use directed scale-free networks resembling important properties of gene...

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The minimum description length principle for probability density estimation by regular histograms

Chapeau-Blondeau, François; Rousseau, David - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 388 (2009) 18, pp. 3969-3984

The minimum description length principle is a general methodology for statistical modeling and inference that selects the best explanation for observed data as the one allowing the shortest description of them. Application of this principle to the important task of probability density estimation...

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Organizations undertaking complex projects in uncertain environments

Barr, Jason; Hanaki, Nobuyuki - In: Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 3 (2008) 2, pp. 119-135

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