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Predisposing attributes affecting locational preferences upon retirement : a prospective view

Creator:: Mileham, Colleen K.
Abstract:: This research investigated the relationship of predisposing attributes of preretirees to the perceived importance of locational preferences during the first ten years of retirement. Multiple regression analyses and a Chi-square test were used to determine if seven predisposing attributes were related to ten locational preferences. Data were analyzed from a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the decision making process of individuals anticipating retirement (Pampel, Levin, Louviere, Meyer

Diverse pathways in retirement transitions : influences of family, work, wealth, and health

Creator:: Peters, Cheryl L.
Abstract:: Shaped by life course and feminist perspectives, this study investigated the influence of finances, human capital, health, family situations, and work factors on two different retirement transitions among married and partnered men and women. Because women and men arrive at retirement under different life circumstances, logistic regression analyses were conducted...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A study of strategic and tactical decision making procedures

Creator:: Elsner, Brian Jerome
Abstract:: An extensive literature survey investigated methods and approaches for evaluating intangible economic factors at the strategic and tactical levels of managerial decision making. These sources provided: 1) the background for a theoretical decision making algorithm developed for comparing alternative economic proposals for effectiveness at the strategy levels, and 2) a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: A study of strategic and tactical decision making

Entrepreneurs’ start-up versus persistence decisions: A critical evaluation of expectancy and value

Creator:: Holland, Daniel V. and Garrett, Robert P.
Abstract:: Research suggests that entrepreneurs tend to seek to maximize utility when considering whether to pursue a new venture opportunity. However, when choosing whether to persist with their current venture or not, utility maximization may not be of primary importance. Using a conjoint experiment, we examine the difference between policies in...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: offer novel insights into the entrepreneurial decision-making process. Keywords Entrepreneurship

Consideration of uncertainty in forest management decision-making

Creator:: Thompson, Emmett Frank
Abstract:: Management decisions are generally considered to be made under one of three categories of future knowledge: certainty, risk, or uncertainty. All three categories occur in forest management. However, forest management decisions whose outcomes are dependent upon future levels of timber yields, prices, utilization standards, or social and legal institutions are...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

An investigation of the influence of choice structure on decision making behavior

Creator:: Dervitsiotis, Kostas N.
Abstract:: The behavior of individuals in decision making under risk was investigated using choice structures of greater complexity than the types examined in previous studies. The experiment performed consisted of two phases. In Phase I a basic utility function for money was derived for each subject using lotteries with two equally...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: decision making behavior AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF KOSTAS NICOLAUS DERV TSIO TIS (Name) for the

Information and analysis techniques for making crop selection decisions

Creator:: Bristol, Roger Dale
Abstract:: Twenty managers of large diversified irrigated farms in the Willamette Valley area of Oregon were interviewed about the economic information and analysis techniques they use when making crop selection decisions. Two community college farm management instructors, two agricultural lenders, and two certified public accountants working with farmers were interviewed about...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: management decision process and by making recommendations on how portions of the theory can be

A sampling procedure to detect alternative actions in a decision model for choosing among apple harvesting systems

Creator:: Rudkin, Terry Harrold
Abstract:: Numerous analytical aids are available to apple producers to assist them in the decision problem of choosing among alternative apple harvesting systems. However, a majority of these techniques fail to recognize the effect of apple orchard yield variability on system performance and economic efficiency. Furthermore, many of the suggested procedures...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: procedures for decision making do not conscien- tiously apply economic principles to aserious degree. Thus

Development and evaluation of multiple criteria decision-making approaches to watershed management

Creator:: Lamy, France
Abstract:: Decision-making in environmental management is complex due to the multiplicity arid diversity of management objectives and technological choices. This suggests that modelers and experts could utilize (I) multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approaches to assist stakeholder groups in integrating and synthesizing relevant data and information to address ecological and socio-economic concerns and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Development and Evaluation of Multipi Criteria Decision-Making Approaches to Watershed Management Abstract

Understandings of the nature of science and decision making on science and technology based issues

Creator:: Bell, Randy Lee
Abstract:: Current reforms emphasize the development of scientific literacy as the principal goal of science education. The nature of science is considered a critical component of scientific literacy and is assumed to be an important factor in decision making on science and technology based issues. However, little research exists that delineates...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Predisposing attributes affecting locational preferences upon retirement : a prospective view

Diverse pathways in retirement transitions : influences of family, work, wealth, and health

A study of strategic and tactical decision making procedures

Entrepreneurs’ start-up versus persistence decisions: A critical evaluation of expectancy and value

Consideration of uncertainty in forest management decision-making

An investigation of the influence of choice structure on decision making behavior

Information and analysis techniques for making crop selection decisions

A sampling procedure to detect alternative actions in a decision model for choosing among apple harvesting systems

Development and evaluation of multiple criteria decision-making approaches to watershed management

Understandings of the nature of science and decision making on science and technology based issues

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