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The law and popular opinion expect boards of directors will actively monitor their organisations. Further, public … opinion is that boards should have a positive impact on organisational performance. However, the processes of board monitoring … investigating the processual behaviours of boards. The work of four boards1 of micro and small-sized nonprofit organisations were …
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In this thesis I investigate how boards of directors strategize, how they manage strategy and how context affects this … literature on the board’s role in strategy, our understanding of how boards address this role, particularly how boards interact … concern, especially from a practitioner perspective, that boards are overly focused on aspects of compliance at the expense of …
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This article reports the findings into patterns of governance on nonprofit boards in Australia. The research surveys … 118 boards, upon which serve a total of 1405 directors.The findings indicate that nonprofit boards can mimic some aspects … of a shareholder approach to governance. But nonprofit boards, in the main, indicate priorities and activities of a …
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Studies of small firm growth are no longer short in supply. On the contrary, as demonstrated by recent reviews, dozens and dozens of empirical research studies on this topic can be compiled. This does not necessarily mean that we know everything we want to know about small firm growth. In fact,...
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The relationship between urban design and economic activity is seldom studied throughempirical studies with a large number of cases due, in part, to the implicit and intangiblenature of design. This study was intended to understand, analyze, and evaluate thecomplex relationship between the...
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Instructional evaluation is essential for assessing the effectiveness of learning events. In today's economy, corporations are under great pressure to reduce expenses, and training budgets often feel the effects. The closure of in-house training programs, combined with the reduction of training...
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To conclude, if the political risk theoretically means anything, it means thinking about thefuture role of Nation-States, of culture, history and geography and market forces in theshaping of the international economic order. In considering the political risks in theirstrategies, MNCs as the...
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A methodology for the conceptual design phase risk assessment of an aerospace system was proposed. The method was …
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An algorithm is presented for constructing from the adjacency matrix of a digraph the matrix of its simple n -sequences. In this matrix, the i, j entry, i ≠ j , gives the number of paths of length n from a point v i to a point v j ; the diagonal entry i, i gives the number of cycles of length...
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This paper presents a new stochastic multidimensional scaling vector threshold model designed to analyze “pick any/ n ” choice data (e.g., consumers rendering buy/no buy decisions concerning a number of actual products). A maximum likelihood procedure is formulated to estimate a joint space...
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