Danny Miller

TL;DR: In this paper, a new approach to consumption is proposed, which is called material culture and mass consumption, and it is defined as the study of our contemporary material culture, and the philosophical questions about objectification are developed in Material Culture and Mass Consumption.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors leverage this distinction to theorize that family owners offer hired CEOs more incentive pay to attract nonfamily CEOs, signal good governance, and achieve better firm performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a meta-analysis of the financial performance of family firms and find that family firms show an economically weak, albeit statistically significant, superior performance compared to non-family firms.

TL;DR: In this article, a strategy for coupling the data processing capabilities of geographic information systems (GIS) software with the predictive power of a physical model is demonstrated with a small basin in northwestern Washington state, managed for timber production, where deep-seated landsliding has degraded an important fisheries resource.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of incomplete contracts on subcontracting and the design of procurement auctions is examined and the effect of ex post contract revisions on unit costs for both sub-contracted and in-house performed work items on bridge projects procured by the California Department of Transportation.