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What Role Do Tech Companies' R&D Expenditures Play In Analysts Sales And Earnings Forecasts?, Vijaykumar Gandapodi
What Role Do Tech Companies' R&D Expenditures Play In Analysts Sales And Earnings Forecasts?, Vijaykumar Gandapodi
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Many top market capitalization companies are information technology (IT) firms, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, each of which is valued at more than $300 billion. Facebook is less than 10 years old and is one of the top 10 companies in the world in terms of market capitalization. However, technologies change rapidly; website revenue—which once grew at a brisk rate—has slowed down, while mobile technology growth is increasing and technology trends are shifting toward cloud hosting and big data analytics. IT companies that have increased their R&D spending remain leaders throughout periods of technology change. Companies such as Facebook …
Information Sharing Tears Of Irony: An Exploratory Study Of The Information Sharing Paradox In The Intelligence Community, Kevin Odom Sr.
Information Sharing Tears Of Irony: An Exploratory Study Of The Information Sharing Paradox In The Intelligence Community, Kevin Odom Sr.
Business Administration Dissertations
The sharing of information across government intra- and inter-agencies provides enormous benefits to Intelligence operations, but it also poses risks to Intelligence organizations’ operational capability. These benefits and risks of sharing information within Intelligence Communities introduce a paradox that disturbs decision-making abilities and affect existing and future relationships with local and national Intelligence partners. With this paradox, there exist particular forces that affect the paradox, such as organizational factors and the behavior of an information sharer, the responsible actor that decides on how, when and with whom to share the information. Combining the two can produce a positive (desired) outcome …
Attribution Bias And Overconfidence In Escalation Of Commitment: The Role Of Desire To Rectify Past Outcomes, Delilah Castillo Tine
Attribution Bias And Overconfidence In Escalation Of Commitment: The Role Of Desire To Rectify Past Outcomes, Delilah Castillo Tine
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Escalation of commitment is the voluntary continuation of investing resources into what appears to be a failing course of action whose outcome is uncertain. Investigation into the escalation of commitment phenomenon is important to organizations because such behavior could result in grave economic loss. This research investigates two cognitive biases that we posit lead to IT escalation of commitment, namely, attribution bias and overconfidence in an escalation decision, as well as desire to rectify past outcomes (DRPO) for its potential role as a mediator. To test our research model, 160 IT managers participated in a web-based role-playing experiment. Attribution was …