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Excess volatility? the Australian stock market from 1883 to 1999
Heaney, Richard - In: Managerial Finance 29 (2003) 10, pp. 76-94
Are share markets too volatile? While it is difficult to ignore share market volatility it is important to determine … whether volatility is excessive. This paper replicates the Shiller (1981) test as well as applying standard time series … excess volatility, time series analysis identifies a long‐run relationship between share market value and dividends …
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Institutional Ethnography: A Holistic Approach to Understanding Systems
Wright, Ursula T.; Rocco, Tonette S. - In: International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and … 7 (2016) 3, pp. 27-41
This paper introduces institutional ethnography (IE) as a useful and systematic process for examining organizations and work data through the lens of stakeholders, at different levels, and considering the different forces at play. Drawing from ethnomethodology, IE focuses on how everyday...
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Key account teams: success factors for implementing strategy
Lai, Christine Jaushyuam; Gelb, Betsy D. - In: Journal of Business Strategy 36 (2015) 4, pp. 48-55
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore a contributing factor – communication – within a team as well as with a client. Organizations that rely on key account teams for strategy implementation may find their “best laid plans” thwarted by communication problems associated with...
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Development of a culture sensitive prevalence study on older adults violence: qualitative methods contribution
Gil, Ana Paula; Santos, Ana João; Kislaya, Irina - In: The Journal of Adult Protection 17 (2015) 2, pp. 126-138
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on how qualitative approaches can improve a prevalence study on older adults’ violence. The paper describes how qualitative data can help frame a complex and multidimensional problem, such as older adults’ violence, within the culture where...
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Contextualising the antecedents of organisational innovativeness
Ahrens, Thomas; Al-Sereidi, Aishah A.K.; Al-Shaebi, … - In: Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences 33 (2017) 2, pp. 178-194
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the specific meanings underlying the general antecedents of organisational innovativeness (OI) in one specific public sector context, to fill empirically the categories employed in prior quantitative research and to understand better some of the...
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Developing a comprehensive performance measurement system for waqf institutions
Noordin, Nazrul Hazizi; Haron, Siti Nurah; Kassim, Salina - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 7, pp. 921-936
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on management of waqf institutions by developing a contingency framework and outlining approaches that can be followed to instigate a comprehensive performance measurement system (PMS). Design/methodology/approach It conducts a...
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Images of responsible consumers: organizing the marketing of sustainability
Fuentes, Christian - In: International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 43 (2015) 4/5, pp. 367-385
theory to conceptualize the marketing of sustainability. Methodologically, an ethnographic study of three Swedish retail …
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The role of friendship in the formation and development of entrepreneurial teams and ventures
D'hont, Laura; Doern, Rachel; Delgado García, Juan Bautista - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 23 (2016) 2, pp. 528-561
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential influence of friendship on entrepreneurial teams (ETs) and on venture formation and development. The theoretical framework is built on the literature around friendship ties, the interaction of friendship ties and professional...
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Developing knowledge from entrepreneurial actions – toward a taxonomy
Ben Mahmoud-Jouini, Sihem; Paris, Thomas; Bureau, Sylvain - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 24 (2017) 4, pp. 793-813
-grained analysis of two ventures over two years. Entrepreneurs’ success and learning were modeled in line with grounded theory …
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Cost minimisation through interest‐free micro credit to micro entrepreneurs: A case of Bangladesh
Nurul Alam, Mohammed - In: World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 6 (2010) 3, pp. 247-256
The purpose of the paper is to present the result of an empirical review as to how and to what extent the interest‐free microfinance to micro entrepreneurs contributes in minimising different cots of both the lender and the borrowers. An institutional‐network theoretical approach is used to...
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