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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia

Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009

sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities … skills will influence the extent to which business sustainability will be achieved. The findings demonstrate that more than …

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The impact of high Telecommunications costs on the callcentre industry in Cape Town, South Africa

Ngobeni, Robson Mpande - 2009

This study provides a comprehensive overview of challenges and obstacles that are caused by high telecommunications costs within the callcentre industry in Cape Town, South Africa. This study couldn’t have come at a better time considering the current turbulent economic circumstances around...

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Simultaneous pooled auctions

Menezes, FM; Monteiro, PK - 1998

Suppose a seller wants to sell k similar or identical objects and there are n k potential buyers. Suppose that each buyer wants only one object. In this case, we suggest the use of a simultaneous auction that would work as follows. Players are asked to submit sealed bids for one object. The...

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Information internalisation in internationalising the firm

Knight, G. A.; Liesch, P. W. - 2002

Internationalisation occurs when the firm expands its selling, production, or other business activities into …

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Debiasing the outcome effect: The role of instructions in an audit litigation setting

Clarkson, P. M.; Emby, C.; Watt, V. W. S. - 2002

The outcome effect occurs where an evaluator, who has knowledge of the outcome of a judge's decision , assesses the quality of the judgment of that decision maker. If the evaluator has knowledge of a negative outcome, then that knowledge negatively influences his or her assessment of the ex ante...

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Dual paths to performance: the impact of global pressures on MNC subsidiary conduct and performance

Venaik, S.; Midgley, D. F.; Devinney, T. M. - 2005

Over the last decade, the international business literature has placed ever-greater emphasis on the role that learning …

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Canonical valuation of options in the presence of stochastic volatility

Gray, P.; Newman, S. - 2005

Proposed by M. Stutzer (1996), canonical valuation is a new method for valuing derivative securities under the risk-neutral framework. It is non-parametric, simple to apply, and, unlike many alternative approaches, does not require any option data. Although canonical valuation has great...

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Equity market linkage and multinational trade accords: The case of NAFTA

Darrat, A. F.; Zhong, M. S. - 2005

This paper examines the impact of multinational trade accords on the degree of stock market linkage using NAFTA as a case study. Besides liberalizing trade among the U.S., Canada and Mexico, NAFTA has also sought to strengthen linkage among stock markets of these countries. If successful, this...

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Risk premiums and benefit measures for generalized-expected-utility theories

Quiggin, J; Chambers, RG - 1998

Standard tools for the analysis of economic problems involving uncertainty, including risk premiums, certainty equivalents and the notions of absolute and relative risk aversion, are developed without making specific assumptions on functional form beyond the basic requirements of monotonicity,...

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Auditor independence and fee dependence

Craswell, A; Stokes, DJ; Laughton, J - 2002

This study investigates whether fee dependence within the audit firms' offices jeopardises auditor independence. Fee dependence is examined at both the national audit firm level as well as the local office level and in a setting where public disclosure of fees is mandatory. We focus our tests on...

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