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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination

2009

Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....

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Risk Preferences and Demand for Insurance in Peru: A Field Experiment

Galarza, Francisco B.; Carter, Michael R. - 2010

This paper reports the results of behavioral economic experiments conducted in Peru toexamine the relationship amongst …

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ACEITAÇÃO E SEGMENTAÇÃO DO MERCADO DE PRODUTOS DERIVADOS DA CARNE DE PERU

Pulici, Rodrigo; Alves, Flavio Rocha; Gameiro, Augusto … - 2008

- de certa forma - este desempenho. Como o frango de corte, grande parte da produção de carne de peru é exportada. Todavia … de peru, que se apresenta bastante baixo, apesar do crescimento nos últimos cinco anos. A presente pesquisa analisou a … estratégia de segmentação do mercado dos produtos à base de carne de peru, o comportamento de compra baseado nos preços desses …

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Agency Trade-offs in Family Firms: Theoretical Model, Empirical Testing and Implications

Yupitun, Mark Anson - 2008

Agency theory is one of the principal frameworks utilized in explaining the family business phenomena. The objectives of this dissertation are to (1) identify the unique agent-principal dynamics that differentiate family firms from non-family firms, (2) determine the effects of these unique...

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Spotlights and shadows: Preliminary findings about the experiences of women in family business leadership roles

Barrett, Mary; Moores, Ken - 2009

In an earlier study (Moores & Barrett 2002) we found successful CEOs had learned leadership of family controlled businesses (FCBs) in a series of distinct learning phases. Because that study's sample did not include many women, our present study focuses on women in FCBs to better understand how...

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Women learning business leadership: Journeys in the family firm

Barrett, Mary; Moores, Ken - 2008

The family-business literature has thus far not devoted much attention to understanding female vantage points in family firms. A few small-scale studies, notably Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002), describe the varying roles that women adopt, but without explaining why they adopt such...

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Agency differences in professional family businesses: the known and the unknown

Moores, Ken; Craig, Justin B. - 2008

We suggest in this paper one of the reasons that researchers concur agency costs in family firms are more complex than originally thought maybe related to the lack of conceptual clarity. This, we propose, is because when frameworks and theories are borrowed and enthusiastically embraced without...

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Destructive leadership in family businesses: Modelling social exchange between generations

Robinson, David; Harvey, Michael G.; Yupitun, Mark - 2009

The purpose of this article is to address the effects of social exchange, in particular leadership communication, between the current leader of a family business and the prospective future leader when one is the parent and the other, a next-generation offspring. In light of previous literature...

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Organizational life cycle stage and controls in Australian family firms

Moores, Ken; Mula, Joseph M. - 2008

Despite their numerical and economic significance to Australia, family businesses have not been extensively researched. This paper reports results from a nation-wide study of Australian family owned businesses that sought to ascertain and understand their management and control practices. In...

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The salience of market, bureaucratic, and clan controls in the management of family firm transitions: Some tentative Australian evidence

Moores, Ken; Mula, Joseph - 2000

Despite the numerical and economic significance of family businesses to Australia, they are not extensively researched. This paper reports some of the results from a nationwide study of Australian family-owned businesses that sought to ascertain and understand their management and control...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441730