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Not with a Ten-Foot Pole: Core Stigma, Stigma Transfer, and Improbable Persistence of Men's Bathhouses

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Organization Science

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    We examine how organizations that suffer core stigma—disapproval for their core attributes—survive. We explain how men's bathhouses avoid negative attention and minimize the transfer of stigma to their network partners, including customers, suppliers, and ...
Quality Cycles and the Strategic Manipulation of Value

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Operations Research

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    We present a two-state, one-control model of a seller's decision about how good a “deal” to give customers when price and quantity are observable, but the customer does not observe quality until after committing to the transaction, so the quality of the ...
License to Cheat: Voluntary Regulation and Ethical Behavior

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Management Science

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    Although monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets can often avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the effectiveness of regulatory policies to firms' and ...
The Paradox of Corrupt Networks: An Analysis of Organizational Crime at Enron

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Organization Science

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    Despite the prevalence of organizational crime and renewed academic interest in corruption, the coordination of corrupt activities remains undertheorized. This study uses longitudinal data based on the email communication from Enron Corporation prior to ...In the article “The Paradox of Corrupt Networks: An Analysis of Organizational Crime at Enron,” by Brandy L. Aven (Organization Science, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 980–996), there were minor errors. In Table 1, the correct average for the total number of members ...
Learning Negotiation Skills: Four Models of Knowledge Creation and Transfer

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Management Science

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    Our review of the learning and training literature revealed four common methods for training people to be more effective negotiators: didactic learning, learning via information revelation, analogical learning, and observational learning. We tested each ...
Possibility Engineering

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Decision Analysis

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    Possibility engineering is a variant of decision analysis that focuses on highlighting a robust set of acceptable courses of action that satisfy a decision maker’s value constraints rather than identifying and prescribing a single, optimal course of ...
A Typology for Service Supply Chains and Its Implications for Strategic Decisions

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Service Science

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    The strategic management of service supply chains is largely undeveloped despite recent emphasis on service supply chain management as the next frontier of competitive advantage. We propose a new typology for service supply chains that focuses on the ...
A Graph Patrol Problem with Random Attack Times

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Operations Research

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    This paper presents a patrol problem, where a patroller traverses a graph through edges to detect potential attacks at nodes. To design a patrol policy, the patroller needs to take into account not only the graph structure, but also the different attack ...

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Overcoming Human Trafficking via Operations Research and Analytics: Opportunities for Methods, Models, and Applications
Renata A. Konrad, Andrew C. Trapp, Timothy M. Palmbach, Jeffrey S. Blom
European Journal of Operational Research
Published Online: November 2, 2016
Blending Systems Thinking Approaches for Organisational Analysis: Reviewing Child Protection in England
David C. Lane, Eileen Munro, Elke Husemann
European Journal of Operational Research
Published Online: October 24, 2015
Case Study in Disaster Relief: A Descriptive Analysis of Agency Partnerships in the Aftermath of the January 12th, 2010 Haitian Earthquake
John B. Coles, Jun Zhuang, Justin Yates
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
Published Online: August 16, 2011

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