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Small entrepreneurs in poor countries achieve relatively high marginal returns to capital but show only low re-investment rates. The literature is rather inconclusive about the possible causes. We explore whether ‘forced redistribution’, i.e. abusive demands by the kin, affects the...
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Few academic works were interested in the way teenagers react to the criticism of their peers about a brand choice. A situational measure of adolescents’ coping strategies is here developed, that means we want to measure the way a teenager handles a reproach situation by his/her classroom’s...
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conducted in seven African countries, which provides a consistent and comparable picture of the situation of youth employment in …
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, etc.). At the commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the seism, we examine the place and the role played by the Youth … in this context of exception. This paper focuses on the insertion of the Youth on the labour market. Labour markets are … international assistance; or conversely, have the Youth been sacrificed as the generational "weak link". Our analysis is based on …
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This thesis consists of two parts : Part I was inspired by the work produced by Norbert Elias. It shows how the habitus of French young people is marked by the conflict between short-term and long-term logics (dependency to social status and the pressure for success) leading to a “dodging”...
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This paper compares the effects of anti-tobacco ad parodies and visual cigarette package warnings on emotional and cognitive responses of young adults. The findings indicate that graphic-only ad parodies can compete with warnings in their attempt to damage consumers' attitude toward tobacco...
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As influential as Michel Foucault may be in organization theory, several critics have seriously questioned the epistemological foundations of the Foucauldian philosophical project (Ackroyd and Thompson, 1995, 1999; Caldwell, 2007; Habermas, 1990; Newton, 1994, 1998; Reed, 2000; Thompson, 1993). If these remain...
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This chapter summarizes recent research on the role of law, culture and corruption on venture capital (VC) fund structure, governance and performance. Evidence from studies that involve a multitude of countries is primarily considered. The evidence across most studies is broadly consistent with...
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This research presents a new dimension of the auditor independence: the internal independence. Research has focused on clients and market pressures as kinds of external independence. This postulates that the organizational structure of legal audit is perfectly efficient and able to define and...
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