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Financial distress resolution in China – two case studies
Kam, Amy; Citron, David; Muradoglu, Gulnur - In: Qualitative Research in Financial Markets 2 (2010) October, pp. 46-79
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine two contrasting financially distressed companies in China and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492085
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Iron and steel producers: fourteen of the smaller players.
S, Moinov - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967264
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Who owns culture and heritage? Observations on Hong Kong's experience
Hayllar, Mark R. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 1, pp. 24-40
The public value of history, culture and heritage interacts in complex ways with the private ownership of so many of the facilities which give substance to these matters. This article begins by reflecting on the processes involved in seeking to associate government, community and the market in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592807
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Ultimate ownership structure and corporate disclosure quality: evidence from China
Liu, Guoping; Sun, Jerry - In: Managerial Finance 36 (2010) May, pp. 452-467
Purpose – This paper aims to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the influence of interest rate risk on Spanish firms at the industry level. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology employed has its origin in the two-index linear regression model proposed by Stone. This traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009275378
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The privatisation process and evolving share ownership structure of Mainland China's leading state-owned enterprises
McGuinness, Paul B. - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 14 (2006) February, pp. 37-46
Purpose – China is in the midst of an aggressive privatisation process in which key state-owned enterprises have … assess two major SOE bank IPOs, the Bank of Communications and China Construction Bank offerings of June and October 2005 …, respectively, in an attempt to shed light on the evolving share ownership structure of China's leading SOEs especially the extent …
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Property rights implications of public-private joint ventures
Kwok-Chun, Wong; Walker, Anthony - In: Construction Management and Economics 18 (2000) 2, pp. 131-138
of shares from the public institution to the private developer. Evidence found thus far in Hong Kong and China is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005445753
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Who owns culture and heritage? Observations on Hong Kong's experience
Hayllar, Mark R. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 1, pp. 24-40
The public value of history, culture and heritage interacts in complex ways with the private ownership of so many of the facilities which give substance to these matters. This article begins by reflecting on the processes involved in seeking to associate government, community and the market in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563957
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Do downsizing decisions affect organisational knowledge and performance?
Sitlington, Helen; Marshall, Verena - 2010
Purpose - This study seeks to examine the impact of downsizing and restructuring decisions and processes on perceptions of organisational knowledge and effectiveness after downsizing and restructuring events in "successful" and "unsuccessful" organisations. Design/methodology/approach - The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009440884
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Organizational restructuring in response to changes in information-processing technology
Baniak, Andrzej; Cukrowski, Jacek - In: Review of Economic Design 4 (1999) 4, pp. 295-305
This paper examines the effects of changes in information-processing technology on the efficient organizational forms of data-processing in decision-making systems. Data-processing is modelled in the framework of the dynamic parallel processing model of associative computation with an endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005147292
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Métodos ágeis: características, pontos fortes e fracos e possibilidades de aplicação [Agile methods: features, strong and weak aspects and application possibilities]
Tomás, Mário Rui - Centro de Investigação em Inovação Empresarial e do … - 2009
Agile methods are increasingly being discussed by companies, and many are afraid to adopt this approach due to the difficulties in organizational restructuring. In this working paper some characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of this approach will be discussed, as well as when it should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011871