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The control of capital investment [i]

A. J. Berry
- 01 Jan 1984 - 
- Vol. 21, Iss: 1, pp 61-81
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This article is published in Journal of Management Studies.The article was published on 1984-01-01. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Capital employed & Fixed investment.

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Case-Based Research in Accounting

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Towards a better understanding of capital investment decisions

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HRM practices and the multifaceted nature of organization performance: The mediation effect of organizational citizenship behavior

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Selling of capital investments to top management

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Influence of Integration and Diversity on the Investment Process

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the process for allocating resources to major capital investment projects in two vertically integrated and two diversified corporations and found that decisions were guided by product-market strategy and measures of organizational performance.
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The aggregation of estimates in hierarchial organizations

TL;DR: This paper explored two issues in the formation of expectations in Hierarchically ordered organizations -the estimates of events made by individuals at one level and the coupling of these estimates to those made at the next level in the organization.