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The Green Potential for Private Equity
Barton, Anne; Uhlhorn, Elizabeth - 2010
Private equity firms have recently become a target for both social and environmental activists,who see financial engineering and cost cutting in companies purchased by these firms asdetrimental to the companies and society as a whole. However, the private equity space holds atremendous amount of...
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2008 EU-US summit declaration, Brdo, Slovenia, 10 June 2008
Europäische Union / Rat; Council of the European Unon - 2008
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A call to be whole : the fundamentals of health care reform
Sowada, Barbara J. - 2003
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Essays in corporate finance
Laranjeira, Bruno d. - 2011
This thesis presents two essays in Corporate Finance. In the first essay, I use the August 2007 crisis episode to gauge the effect of financial contracting on real firm behavior. I identify heterogeneity in financial contracting at the onset of the crisis by exploiting ex-ante variation in...
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Behavioural differences among Chinese firms - from the perspective of earnings determination
Meng, Xin; Perkins, Frances - 1996
Firms with different ownership structure behave differently. Currently there are three major ownership structures in China’s industrial sector: state enterprises, collective enterprises, and private enterprises. Market-oriented economic reform has given great autonomy to firm managers in terms...
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Theory and Evidence on the Relationship Between Ownership Structure and Capital Structure
Brailsford, Tim; Oliver, Barry; Pua, Sandra L. H - 1999
The agency relationship between managers and shareholders has the potential to influence decision-making in the firm which in turn potentially impacts on firm characteristics such as value and leverage. Prior evidence has demonstrated an association between ownership structure and firm value....
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The effects of a human resources information technology intervention on background check processing in a financial institution: A process level analysis.
Mallari, Alexander David - 2008
The human resources department of a financial institution implemented a multi-component intervention to replace a paper-based hiring system. Organization-wide impacts included changes in the background check operations. To support changes, training was conducted and procedure manuals...
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On the Impact Assessment of ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research) Projects
Spriggs, John; Farquharson, Robert J.; Martin, Bob - 2010
The current ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research) guidelines forimpact assessment of agricultural development projects see impact assessment as being usefulfor both accountability to stakeholders and as a learning tool to find out what works, whatdoesn’t work and...
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Deregulation and R&D in Network Industries: The Case of the Electricity Industry
Jamasb, Tooraj; Pollitt, Michael G - 2005
industrial organisation literature on innovation to explore the causes of this decline, and shows that it was predicted by the … operating efficiency of the sector. Despite this, a lasting decline in basic R&D and innovation input into basic research may … negatively affect development of radical technological innovation in the long run. There is a need for reorientation of energy …
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Determinants of Food Industry Performance – Empirical Evidence Based on a Survey
Furtan, William Hartley; Sauer, Johannes - 2008
This paper empirically investigates the determinants of firms’ performance in the agri-food sector by using recent survey data for Denmark. Treating sales per employee as a proxy for value addition we estimate several bootstrapped regression models to draw conclusions on the marginal effects...
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