Donald A. Wehrung

A.B. (Dartmouth),
M.Sc., Ph.D. (Stanford)

Professor

Office: 524 David Lam Building
Tel: (604) 822-9522
Fax: (604) 822-8477
E-mail: donald.wehrung@commerce.ubc.ca

Mailing Address:
The University of British Columbia
Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration
2053 Main Mall
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
V6T 1Z2

Research Interests

Selected Publications

"Risk Taking Over Gains and Losses: A Study of Oil and Gas Executives", in P. Fishburn and I. Lavalle, eds., Choice Under Uncertainty, forthcoming.

(with D.K. Tse, K.H. Lee, I.B. Vertinksy), "Does Culture Matter? A Cross-cultural Study of Executives' Choice, Decisiveness and Risk Adjustment in International Marketing", Journal of Marketing, forthcoming.

(with Vertinsky, Shibata, and Tse), "Do Norms of Decision Making Styles, Organizational Design and Management Affect Performance of Japanese Firms? A Exploratory Study of Medium and Large Firms", Managerial and Decision Economics 12, 1991, 135-146.

(with K.R. MacCrimmon), Taking Risks: The Management of Uncertainty, The Free Press, 1986, 380 pages.

(with K.R. MacCrimmon), "Assessing Risk Propensity", in L. Daboni, A. Montesano, M. Lines, eds., Recent Developments in the Foundations of Utility and Risk Theory, Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1986, 291-309.

(with K.R. MacCrimmon), "A Portfolio of Risk Measures", Theory and Decision 19, 1985, 1-29.

(with K.R. MacCrimmon), "The Risk In-Basket", Journal of Business 57 (3), July 1984, 367-387.

(with K.R. MacCrimmon, K.M. Brothers), "Utility Assessment: Domains, Stability and Equivalence Procedures", INFOR, Canadian Journal of Operational Research and Information 22, May 1984, 98-115.

(with K.R. MacCrimmon, W.T. Stanbury), "Real Money Lotteries: A Study of Ideal Risk, Context Effects and Simple Processes", in T.S. Wallsten, ed., Cognitive Processes in Choice and Decision Behavior, Erlbam, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1980, 155-177.

"Interactive Identification and Optimization Using a Binary Preference Relation", Operations Research 26 (2), March 1978, 322-332.

(with D.S.P. Hopkins, W.P. Massy), "Interactive Preference Optimization for University Administrators", Management Science 24 (6), February 1978, 599-611.