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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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evidence across most studies is broadly consistent with the view that legal protection enables superior compensation … countries, by contrast, have less efficient compensation structures. The evidence further indicates that better legal systems … returns, suggesting that fund managers are able to alleviate the effects of corruption in investee companies. In our …
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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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; their respective ethics level and their abilities to reveal errors. With this end in view, we used the Defining Issue Test … method and technical scenarios. On the one hand, results show that their ethics level is similar; one the other hand, their …
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Public expertise in safety, security and environment (SSE) is a process that is increasingly submitted to control and transparency. As decision-making, the exercise of expertise involves subjectivity and judgment. An oversight, a monitoring and an aiding approach is therefore required for its...
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This thesis aims to undertake an economic analysis of private medical practice while stressing on elements, which in our view, remain unsaid or unrecognised. It is about an institutional analysis, based on the historic and social embedding of the health. After presenting the specificities of...
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Welfare economics encompasses other public choice theories besides utilitarianism, like egalitarian social justice theory. Whether these economic frameworks provide practical tools that could be used in health technology assessment is an ongoing debate, and this study aim to contribute to answer...
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By introducing a structure of the balance sheets of the banks, which takes into account their bilateral exposures in terms of stocks or lendings, we get a structural model for default analysis. This model allows us to distinguish the exogenous and endogenous default dependence. We prove the...
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