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China’s International Poverty Reduction Center as a Platform for South-South Learning

Wu, Zhong; Karp, Philip; Wang, Yan - In: Development Outreach 12 (2010) 2, pp. 32-34

After attending a South-South experience-sharing event in China, a number of African officials wondered: “How come China is able to develop and retain its implementation capacity, whereas our countries suffer from brain-drain?”

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Overcoming Challenges to Long-Term Financing: A Behavioral Perspective

Mohamed, Hazik Bin - In: International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics … 6 (2017) 2, pp. 37-51

A concern that has emerged repeatedly in the support for long-term sustainable development is the insufficient availability of long-term finance for projects such as infrastructure. This paper considers some of the possible strategies to overcome obstacles (cognitive or otherwise) to ensure the...

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AASB 138: catalyst for managerial decisions reducing R&D spending?

Steenkamp, Natasja; Steenkamp, Shaun - In: Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting 14 (2016) 1, pp. 116-130

Purpose This paper aims to investigate if the more stringent requirements of AASB 138, effective 1 January 2005, regarding capitalising research and development (R&D) spending could have been a catalyst for changes in managerial decisions that consequently resulted in reduced R&D spending in...

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The sustainable executive: antecedents of managerial long-term orientation

Sternad, Dietmar; Kennelly, James J. - In: Journal of Global Responsibility 8 (2017) 2, pp. 179-195

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how managers incorporate long-term thinking in their decision-making processes as an antipode to a widely criticized managerial short-termism. For this purpose, the authors present a model of the influence of institutional, cultural and individual...

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Financial misconduct and corporate innovation: evidence from China

Mbanyele, William; Wang, Fengrong - In: Chinese Management Studies 18 (2023) 4, pp. 1021-1046

Purpose This study aims to examine the real effects of financial misconduct on corporate innovation. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2006 to 2017. This study uses several empirical strategies to deal with endogeneity concerns, including...

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Earnings management, investor sentiment and short-termism

Formiga Miranda, Kléber; Machado, Márcio André Veras - In: Journal of Applied Accounting Research 25 (2024) 5, pp. 1146-1164

Purpose This study examines the investment horizon influence, mediated by market optimism, on earnings management based on accruals and real activities. Based on short-termism, the authors argue that earnings management increases in optimistic periods to boost corporate profits....

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A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Organizations

Beech, Nic - In: Critical perspectives on international business 2 (2006) 4, pp. 354-355

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The learning organization in review

Mumford, Alan - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 27 (1995) 1, pp. 9-16

Looks at, discussing in depth, a number of works based on the learning organization. Compares, their strengths and … weaknesses, and uses them to illustrate the possibilities and dangers of the current excitement regarding the learning … organization. Concludes by redefining the learning organization, suggesting that it is the final level in a learning pyramid. …

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Real Learning in Unreal Circumstances

Neffinger, G.G. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 5 (1990) 4, pp. 27-31

‐Based Training and Development (EBTD). Although EBTD is being used extensively, there is no comprehensive guide to its theory and …

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The learning organization and CPE: some philosophical considerations

Battersby, David - In: The Learning Organization 6 (1999) 2, pp. 58-62

Continuing professional education (CPE) refers to the ongoing, structured and unstructured learning and educational … associated with the learning organization. To guide this development, a set of philosophical principles is provided and these are … within the learning organization will encourage less adherence to domesticating and passive modes of CPE. …

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