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-owned banks operating in Australia. The relevance of both comparative advantage theory and new trade theory to multinational … banking in Australia will be tested. Design/methodology/approach – A three stage research method is employed. First, estimates … of foreign bank efficiency are drawn from a larger sample of domestic and foreign banks in Australia. Efficiency is …
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current study investigated how stakeholder heterogeneity impacts on organisational reputation. A sample of 1208 respondents … was drawn from six stakeholder groups. Differences in stakeholder perceptions are compared through structural equation …
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influences on reputation assessments.Building on a stakeholder-power approach to corporate governance, the second essay studied … how differences in the power and preferences of three stakeholder groups – shareholders, creditors, and workers – across …
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host market incumbency reduces efficiency of foreign banks in Australia, resulting in over use of inputs. Factors …
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The onus on landholders in relation to environmental performance is ever increasing. One toolfor achieving environmental improvements is the design and promotion of region-specific‘best management practices’ (BMPs). These are conservation practices aimed at reducingdiffuse source pollution...
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for drinking recycled wastewater. The standarddiscrete decision model, with sequential inclusion of factor scores, is … compared to an equivalentdiscrete decision model, which corrects for the measurement bias by simultaneously estimating …
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Although the Bock–Aitkin likelihood-based estimation method for factor analysis of dichotomous item response data has important advantages over classical analysis of item tetrachoric correlations, a serious limitation of the method is its reliance on fixed-point Gauss-Hermite (G-H) quadrature...
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Although the Bock–Aitkin likelihood-based estimation method for factor analysis of dichotomous item response data has important advantages over classical analysis of item tetrachoric correlations, a serious limitation of the method is its reliance on fixed-point Gauss-Hermite (G-H) quadrature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476754
Multiple outcomes are often used to properly characterize an effect of interest. This paper proposes a latent variable model for the situation where repeated measures over time are obtained on each outcome. These outcomes are assumed to measure an underlying quantity of main interest from...
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Switching costs has been recognised as a primary reason why dissatisfied customers stay with their suppliers. While a validated multidimensional scale of switching costs exists in a business-to-consumer context, there has been little empirical research effort devoted to operationalising...
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