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Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Business Administration, Management, and Operations

2004

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A Social Exchange Model Of Subordinate's Trust In Supervisors, Wei Hua Sep 2004

A Social Exchange Model Of Subordinate's Trust In Supervisors, Wei Hua

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This study demonstrates how the subordinate’s defensiveness predicts perception of managerial behaviors, which in turn leads to trust in supervisors. From a social information processing perspective, defensiveness, the affective reaction to uncertainty and vulnerability, serves as the frame subordinates use to decode and evaluate managerial behaviors. Trust in supervisors is anchored in this perception. A two-group analysis in Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is used to test this model by a Chinese and a US sample


Inventory Model With Seasonal Demand: A Specific Application To Haute Couture, Byung Joon Park, Yih-Long Chang, Johnny C. Ho Feb 2004

Inventory Model With Seasonal Demand: A Specific Application To Haute Couture, Byung Joon Park, Yih-Long Chang, Johnny C. Ho

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In the stochastic multiperiod inventory problem, a vast majority of the literature deals with demand volume uncertainty. Other dimensions of uncertainty have generally been overlooked. In this paper, we develop a newsboy formulation for the aggregate multiperiod inventory problem intended for products of short sales season and without replenishments. A distinguishing characteristic of our formulation is that it takes a time dimension of demand uncertainty into account. The proposed model is particularly suitable for applications in haute couture, i.e., high fashion industry. The model determines the time of switching primary sales effort from one season to the next as well …