Appropriate job selection and career planning largely determine successful career development. Investigates some aspects of career development in industrial management from a sample survey conducted over the manufacturing industries in Taiwan. Derives regression lines reflecting the salary...

This article generalizes the single-period linear programming option bound prices by allowing for a finite nu mber of revision opportunities. It is shown that, in an incomplete ma rket, the bounds on option prices can be derived using a modified bin omial option pricing model. Tighter bounds are...

Traditionally, raising the level of technology is considered the most effective way to improve productivity. Nevertheless, without the support of sound management systems, the contribution of technology to productivity is limited. In a sample of fifteen machinery firms, this paper calculates...

We solve a buyback contract design problem for a supplier who is working with a retailer who possesses private information about the demand distribution. We model the retailer’s private information as a space of either discrete or continuous demand states so that only the retailer knows its...

Investors hold portfolios of assets with different risk-reward profiles for diversification benefits. Conditional on the volatility of assets, diversification benefits can vary over time depending on the correlation structure among asset returns. The correlation of returns between assets has...