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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: CHALLENGES FOR LATIN AMERICA
LEFORT, FERNANDO; WALKER, EDUARDO - In: Abante 2 (2000) 2, pp. 99-111
Corporate Governance relates to mechanisms through which providers of resources to the firm get their share of resources in return. Adequate governance practices help develop capital markets and assist market forces in attaining efficient contracts. Convincing evidence exists that well developed...
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Information Technology and Information Society in Poland
Batori, Zoltan; Koren, Andrea; Sergi, Bruno S. - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 1 (2008) 2/3, pp. 137-155
Investment on the information technology has a prominent place in understanding the growth of labour markets … productivity in the USA after 1995. While investment on information technology enabled US firms to achieve high growth rates of …. The European productive system has failed to implement forward-looking investment decisions. This paper is designed to …
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Women in the IT sector: Is there an English language premium?
Chandramohan, B.P.; Gajanan, Shailendra N.; Muthulakshmi, B. - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 4 (2011) 4, pp. 378-389
education. We track women employees in the Information Technology (IT) sector in Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, and …
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Budget Expectations
IRIS, IRIS India - eSocialSciences - 2011
Budget expectations from various sectors are given. URL:[ http://www.myiris.com/newsCentre/storyShow.php?fileR=20110217120638043&secID=fromnewsroom&secTitle=From the News Room&dir=2011/02/17].
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The Global Race for Excellence and Skilled Labour: A Status Report
Rollwagen, Ingo; Renkin, Tobias - eSocialSciences - 2012
In this context, higher education as well as research and development (R&D) have long since ceased to be purely the domain of the developed Western economies. Numerous regions of the world, some in the emerging markets in particular – the often-cited BRIC countries – are catching...
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Analysis of gains and pains of SEZ in Indian scenario
Khatik, S.K.; Saxena, R.V. - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 3/4, pp. 310-327
It is a well known fact that India needs massive investments in manufacturing, infrastructure development and in its … market place. These were the very aims for which the Government of India mooted the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Policy in …
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When Heirs Become Major Shareholders: Evidence on Tunneling and Succession through Related-Party Transactions
Hwang, Sunwoo; Kim, Woochan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In family firms, the succession of controlling equity stake to next generation is an issue of paramount importance. This, however, can be a major challenge in the presence of heavy inheritance or gift tax burden (high tax rate and absence of tax-saving vehicles, such as trusts or foundations)...
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Business Groups in Thailand: Before and after the East Asian Financial Crisis
Polsiri, Piruna; Wiwattanakantang, Yupana - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2004
This paper investigates how business groups in Thailand had evolved since the 1950s. We argue that political connections and foreign capital among other factors were contributable to the emerging of Thai business groups. The business groups that owned banks developed fast during the late 1980s...
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Financial Constraints and Continental Business Groups: Evidence from German Konzerns
Schäfer, Dorothea; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
sensitivity of investment to cash flow. The main finding is that the reduction in the sensitivity is small for small firms and …
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Is Investment-Cash flow Sensitivity a Good Measure of Financing Constraints? New Evidence from Indian Business Group Firms
George, R.; Kabir, M.R.; Qian, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005
Several studies use the investment - cash flow sensitivity as a measure of financing constraints while some others … subject to less financing constraints relative to independent firms.Our results show strong investment - cash flow … investment models and estimation techniques.We investigate this finding further by analyzing the influence of various firm …
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