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Purpose – The paper aims to investigate disclosure practices in the annual reports of Libyan banks in the run‐up to the opening of the nation's first stock exchange. Banks dominate this embryonic market but very little research has examined the extent (or determinants) of transparency...
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Purpose – A panel error correction model has been developed to investigate the spatial correlation patterns among house prices. This paper aims to identify a dominant housing market in the ripple down process. Design/methodology/approach – Seemingly unrelated regression estimators are...
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, allocation to Germany and diversification across property types improved performance, while higher liquidity and focus on retail …
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Purpose – Value relevance studies, in particular international comparative studies, use market values sampled at different dates relative to the fiscal year-end. This paper aims to contribute a theoretical and empirical analysis of the relationship between value relevance and the month of...
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reverse form of delegation, in which local governments choose their own individual standards which the central government then …
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This paper shows that favoritism can arise endogenously as an optimal decision rule in a symmetric model with an ex-ante impartial principal. Furthermore, favoritism dominates fairness specifically when the favorite promotes his own idea and ignores the other's idea so that the non-favorite...
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One of the main functions of culture is division of labour among various actors in society. Since the global environment is characterised by diverse and deep‐rooted cultural norms and value systems, the nature of this division of labour across cultures should exhibit systematic differences....
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the effectiveness of delegation as a management practice is … delegation as it has been studied in the past and a reflection on the ways in which past research can usefully inform current … trends in the use of delegation as a management practice. Findings – A model is proposed that suggests that the effectiveness …
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suppliers in new product development (NPD): supply network delegation; and supply network intervention. The implications of the … the two strategies of supply network intervention and delegation, when applied as part of supplier involvement in product … development, and positive and negative indications of delegation and intervention, depending on the actor perspective …
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This article aims to produce some practical evidence of how management innovation can be encouraged in the context of a small hotel group. The analysis is developed from a review of literature on entrepreneurship combined with a practical managerial perspective on operations management.
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