Attitudes of industrial buyers toward selected social issues

Although the demand on industrial establishments to resolve various social problems is ever-present, there is little substantive material in the literature concerning the industrial buyers' perceptions of the social responsibilities of their firm. Studies of executive's attitudes toward corporate social responsibility have focused heretofore on corporate personnel other than industrial buyers. Next to salespersons, however, industrial buyers have more contact with persons and businesses outside their company than other corporate personnel. People in purchasing, nonetheless, are perceived by many as conservative, hard-nosed negotiators either unconcerned about corporate social responsibility at best or denying such responsibility at worst. This article presents the results of a survey of industrial buyers concerning their attitudes toward various social issues.     

A method for implementing counterfactual experiments in models with multiple equilibria

This paper proposes a homotopy method for implementing counterfactual experiments in empirical models with multiple equilibria. A key assumption is that the equilibrium selection function does not jump discontinuously between equilibria as we continuously change the structural parameters.     

Education and financial mistakes: The case of avoidable trading fees in stock markets

Portuguese Economic Journal - We study a quasi-natural experiment that altered the structure of commission fee schedules applied to retail investors in the Portuguese stock market in 2003. Using a...     

Introduction: Firms with Behavioral Biases

Review of Industrial Organization -     

Introduction to “Leader Power and Agency-Communion Orientations as Moderators of the Effects of Organizational Characteristics on Workplace Bullying”

Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal -     

Introduction to “Unintended Consequences: The U.S. Postal Service Conundrum of Service,Business, Labor,and Politics”

Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal -     

Five decades of corporate entrepreneurship research: measuring and mapping the field

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal - Research on corporate entrepreneurship—venturing activities by established corporations—has received increasing scholarly...