This article reviews the development of a global production system through a cross-case analysis of the establishment of Hyundai Motor Company's five major overseas production facilities. It concludes that establishing a global production network can be a catalyst for organizational learning and...

To examine the effects of policy intervention in the presence of imperfect competition in manufacturing, general equilibrium models are constructed of four Western Pacific economies, chosen according to their level of development and the comparative sizes of their manufacturing sectors. The...

This thesis develops an economic analysis of securities fraud. The thesis consists of a theory essay and an empirical essay. In the theory essay, I analyze a firm's propensity to commit securities fraud and the real consequences of fraud. I show that fraud can lead to investment distortions. I...

In deformation based morphometry (DBM) group-wise differences in brain structure are measuredusing deformable registration and some form of statistical test. However, it is known that DBMresults are sensitive to both the registration method and statistical test used. Given the lack of...

In this paper we want to analyze the internal divisional structure within an organi-zation in the framework of incomplete contract theory. We use the framework of Aghionand Tirole (1997) and define the managerial control structure as \sequence of search".A key feature of this paper which...