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Education, Innovation, and Growth - Critical Appraisal and Cliometric Analyses with Implications for Present Economic Policy

Müller, Normann - 2009

'public finance', 'political economy', 'growth theory', 'human capital theory', and 'innovation-driven growth theory …'.The first project reveals that the prevailing notion of education externalities is misleading and therefore empirical … externalities of education according to Lucas (1988) are likely to be internalized on the labor market. Education is recognized as a …

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Aufsichtsräte deutscher Aktiengesellschaften: Zusammensetzung, Interventionsaktivitäten, Performance

Vetter, Karin - 2011

Den Aufsichtsräten innerhalb des deutschen Corporate Governance Systems ist in den letzten Jahren erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit zugekommen. Es wurden Empfehlungen und gesetzliche Vorschriften formuliert, die die Zusammensetzung des Aufsichtsratsgremiums sowie dessen Tätigkeiten betreffen. Diesem...

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Disclosure of executive remuneration in large banks

Schott, Max - 2008

The first part of this thesis analyzes and quantifies the magnitude of executive remuneration disclosure of the worlds 245 largest exchange-listed banks, using annual reports as the primary source of information, and the diverse disclosure rules in the 31 countries in which these banks are...

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Zur Rolle der Printmedien bei der Steuerung und ?berwachung von Unternehmen. Eine Analyse der Berichterstattung ?ber die Einhaltung der Grunds?tze des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex.

Schmid, Christoph - 2006

Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Feststellung, dass sich die ?konomische Theorie trotz der mehr als 160j … until very recently did not deal with economic theory. This applies in particular to the investigation of the role media can …

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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Herr, Andrew - 1996

of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader … conducted. A distinction is made between two types of appropriation externalities: those that are restricted to a single period …

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The impact of business environment and boards of directors on strategic decision-making: A case study of Greek listed companies

Balta, M E - 2008

This thesis documents a study of the factors associated with Boards of Directors’ strategicdecisions. The premise upon which such a research initiative is founded concerns theincreased interest of academics and business practitioners in Board of Directors in the U.Kand in U.S in part arising...

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Audit market concentration and auditor choice in the UK

Abidin, Shamharir - 2006

smaller firms to provide services across an international market. Contrary to agency theory predictions, the results show that …

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The Organizational Psychology of Hyper-Competition: Corporate Irresponsibility and the Lessons of Enron

Langevoort, Donald C. - 2002

What I want to do here is first explain my fears and then explore the Enron story from the standpoint of both social psychology and organizational behavior. My sense going in, at least, is that the social forces and selfish norms that emerge fairly naturally in highly competitive settings such...

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Corporate Governance at China’s Stock Market

Junhua Tang - 2011

This dissertation reviews the status and changes of the governance practices in China’s SOE reforms. It explains how these changes took place by examining the most influential factors in the evolution of governance practices. It argues that there exists a path dependency, mainly driven by a...

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Corporate Governance von humankapitalintensiven Unternehmen

Weishaupt, Till - 2007

Hintergrund der Untersuchung ist die zunehmende Bedeutung von Humankapital als wettbewerbsentscheidendem Produktionsfaktor in modernen humankapitalintensiven Unternehmungen. Es stellt sich die Frage nach den Auswirkungen der Bedeutungszunahme und der Regelung des „Primärhumankapitals“, also...

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