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Entrepreneurial orientation in the forestry industry: a population ecology perspective
St‐Jean, Etienne; LeBel, Luc; Audet, Josée - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 17 (2010) 2, pp. 204-217
of SMEs in a constrained environment, namely the forestry industry. It also aims to find out how EO still acts on … approach takes the form of an empirical study based on a sample of 717 forestry SME owner‐managers, with cluster analysis of … the data, taking a population ecology perspective. Findings – The study reveals the existence of two types of forestry …
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Understanding the company audit process in the UK, Canada and USA: panacea or nuisance?
Hemraj, Mohammed B. - In: Journal of Financial Crime 10 (2003) 1, pp. 54-62
Explains the audit process: its purpose is to check that balance sheet and profit and loss accounts have been prepared properly and give a true view of the company’s affairs. Shows why this is needed, plus the statutory requirement, engaging an auditor, the contractual relationship between...
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Expectations of privacy and market abuse ‐ support for the Financial Services and Markets Act and the Canadian approach
Jones, Mark; Johnstone, Peter - In: Journal of Financial Crime 10 (2003) 2, pp. 117-129
Introduces the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA), a determined effort to modernise financial regulation which creates the Financial Services Authority (FSA) as a monolithic regulator and the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal as an appellate channel. Shows how the Act...
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A comparative investigation into the internationalisation of Canadian and UK high‐tech SMEs
Spence, Martine; Crick, Dave - In: International Marketing Review 23 (2006) 5, pp. 524-548
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide comparative data from a two‐country study; specifically, into the internationalisation strategies of Canadian and UK high‐tech small and medium‐sized enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology employed involves 24...
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Clinical management as boundary management
Fitzgerald, Louise; Dufour, Yvon - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 10 (1997) 1/2, pp. 5-20
Focuses on the critical role played by professionals in the management of health‐care institutions in the UK and Canada … relationships with colleague professionals. Compares the approaches taken in the UK and Canada, and explores issues of context …
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Financial and professional incentives in health care
Llewellyn, Sue; Eden, Ron; Lay, Colin - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 12 (1999) 1, pp. 6-16
through an analysis of positive and negative effects. By undertaking a comparison between the UK and Canada, the paper …
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Market risk disclosures of banks: a cross‐country study
Savvides, Savvas C.; Savvidou, Nicoletta - In: International Journal of Organizational Analysis 20 (2012) 4, pp. 379-405
in ten countries of different size and geographic distribution (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan, Italy, The Netherlands …
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Non‐standard Work in Canada and the United Kingdom
Green, Francis; Krahn, Harvey; Sung, Johnny - In: International Journal of Manpower 14 (1993) 5, pp. 70-86
increasing in many industrialized countries. Contrasts its prevalence in 1989 in Canada and the UK, through a systematic …
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Young and old at risk Comparative trends in “non‐standard” patterns of employment in Canada and the United Kingdom
Felstead, Alan; Krahn, Harvey; Powell, Marcus - In: International Journal of Manpower 20 (1999) 5, pp. 277-297
For many years, the majority of workers in the industrialised West have shared a similar employment life‐course – one based on full‐time permanent work. However, over the last decade the number of such opportunities have started to decline and many more workers are participating in...
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Looking again at current practice in project management
Fortune, Joyce; White, Diana; Jugdev, Kam; Walker, Derek - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 4 (2011) 4, pp. 553-572
” experiences of people active in project management (PM) in Australia, Canada and the UK; determine the extent to which those …
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