Akron Business and Economic Review articles from June 1989

Akron Business and Economic Review archives from June 1989

Profiling the Mature Fashion-Conscious Apparel Shopper
June 22, 1989... Profiling The Mature Fashion-Conscious Apparel Shopper Market segmentation and submarket profiling are two widely used strategic marketing tools. While marketing research has addressed the segmenting of student and adult populations, only...

Outside Directors and Managerial Monitoring
June 22, 1989... Outside Directors and Managerial Monitoring* In recent years, the role of the board of directors of a corporation has received considerable attention in both the popular press [2] and academic journals [5,6]. The board is seen in an agency...

A Comparative Evaluation of Methods for Combining Forecasts
June 22, 1989... A Comparative Evaluation of Methods for Combining Forecasts* Traditionally, the forecast choice problem has assumed the existence of a "best" forecast or method among the available ones and focused on the search and identification of the most...

Predicting Consumer Outshopping Activity: A Propensity to Outshop Scale
June 22, 1989... Predicting Consumer Outshopping Activity: A Propensity to Outshop Scale Retailers are daily immersed in an environment of intense competition. The more prevalent view of retail competition is to appraise the retailers located within the local...

Why Companies Pay No Dividends
June 22, 1989... Why Companies Pay No Dividens When considering dividend policy, corporate policymakers are influenced by many factors. These considerations include the company's goals and situational factors such as current and anticipated future earnings,...

Stock Returns and the Weekend Effect in Canada
June 22, 1989... Stock Returns And The Weekend Effect In Canada The existence of the weekend effect has been proven through different studies by Cross [4], French [7], Gibbons and Hess [8], Coats [2], Lakonishok and Levi [16], Hindmarch, Jentsch, and Drew [11],...

Miles and Snow's Typology of Strategy, Perceived Environmental Uncertainty, and Organizational Performance
June 22, 1989... Miles And Snow's Typology Of Strategy, Perceived Environmental Uncertainty, And Organizational Performance Formulating and implementing strategy congruent to external environment have been an important challenge for many top executives. Much...

Corporate Dividends: Views of Institutional Investors
June 22, 1989... Corporate Dividends: Views of Institutional Investors* Corporate dividend policy has long been a subject of debate, discussion, and research in finance, but the field has not reached a sense of closure.1 Black [7] expressed this lack of closure...