electricity industry has spawned a new wave of mergers, both raising questions and providing opportunities to examine these …The traditional structure of the electricity sector in the U.S. has been that of large vertically integrated companies … level. ISOs oversee the centralized management of the grid and the energy market and are expected to promote more efficient …

Effective supply chain management gains much attention from industry and academia because it helps firms across a … effects of forecasting method selection coupled with information sharing on supply chain performance in a dynamic business … be promoted in supply chain management. However, this study also demonstrated that forecasting methods not capable of …

in industry. We assume tier-wise negotiations, sole sourcing within each tier, complete local information, and horizontal …

information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social scientific approach … to identify the strategic behavior of individuals in information systems, and analyze how non-monetary incentive schemes … motivate information provision. In my first study, I use statistical modeling to infer users' information provision strategies …

manufacturer. We use a panel data set with 300,000 observations spanning five years of forecasting and order transactions between a …Empirical research in manufacturing and service operations management is an emerging and promising area of research … spurious correlation amongst themselves, called contagion. The findings have implications for contracting, capacity planning …

management research. The paradigmatic issues involve vertical integration theory, the evolution of vertical integration in the … integration strategy and the implementation of the multidivisional structure in terms of information processing advantages and in … be valued by those concerned with progress in the emerging field of strategic management. …

medical device industry, Medtronic Inc, from its early years as a public company to 2006. The study analyzes the external … cardiovascular device industry from 1990 to 2006. The third essay explores the use of valuation as a measure of performance and …

demonstration of linkages between management decision variables, context and competence; (4) the creation of a database of intra …-firm information, essential to advance empirical study of resource-based theory; (5) an integration of content and process themes …