This paper analyzes responses to an administered questionnaire in which owner-managers of seventy-three small firms were asked how they would respond to booms and recessions. Responses suggest that quantity adjustments to demand fluctuations are more important than price adjustments. There is...

This paper reports on an econometric structure-performance model for a mixed-market developing economy, the East African state of Malawi. A simultaneous equation model, which was cross-sectionally heteroskedastic and time-wise autoregressive, was estimated by instrumental variables using...

This paper examines statistical methods for handling economic data that are expressible as sequences of actions, given a contingent circumstance (e.g., given a fall in demand, which of several courses of action--such as lowering price, increasing stocks, or increasing sales effort--will be taken...

New empirical evidence is presented on organisational change, outsourcing and the impact on management accounting in three types of organisations: private sector companies, the National Health Service and Local Authorities. Spearman rank correlations are used to examine three propositions: that...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine five assumptions of agency theory: that both investor and investee make rational decisions; future outcomes are predictable; both act in their own best interests; the investee has an information advantage over the investor; and the investee is work‐ and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a review which brings together the existing literature on the reasons for the decline in pension schemes. Design/methodology/approach – Adopting a positivist stance, where the reality of man as an adaptor, in a study of systems, processes and...

part PART I Conceptual framework -- chapter 1 Background -- chapter 2 Risk and uncertainty -- part PART II Sampling and evidence -- chapter 3 Sampling, fieldwork and instrumentation -- chapter 4 Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs conduct -- part PART III Statistical analysis -- chapter 5...