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The leveraging of control is the possibility for the controlling shareholder to lower her direct participation in … political management of the leverage of control. …
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company Alais, Froges et Camargue and the introduction of new management tools intended to control subsidiaries. The …
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The demand of management control information (MCI) and its use by Venture Capitalists (VC) are examined through a …
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To control, evaluate, and motivate their agents, firms employ supervisors. As shown by empirical investigations, biased …
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The public utilities are an interesting testing ground to understand the relation and asymmetry of information between an agent and his principle. The normative theory of agency and the positive theory of agency represent theory sphere of the contractual relation and the incentive and...
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Following the success of London Great Exhibition of 1851, the French government decided to launch similar exhibitions in Paris. Thus a series of five Great Exhibitions have been held in Paris between 1855 and 1900. Unlike in the British case, it was more difficult to gather financial...
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institutionalised in management control systems of a firm. In particular, three elements of organisational control, inspired by the … control mix defined by Abernethy and Chua (1996), are studied: management culture, division of powers between functions, and … institutionalisation process of management control systems in more detail by observing how ideals are translated into discourse and in turn …
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This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data … associated with performance except when it relates to ethnicity. It not only reduces performance per se but also increases risk …. Female presence and professional diversity reduce risk but nationality and ethnicity diversities are associated with higher …
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non-zero risk levels. Some contemporary European societies tolerate about one fatality per thousand year around industrial …
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Using a recent household survey conducted in Senegal, I examine the impact of negative and positive income shocks on departures from and entries in the household. I focus on differences in responses to shocks across the urban and rural sectors as well as age and gender groups. Striking...
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