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State control and the weak stock market in China
Cai, Wei - In: Journal of Financial Crime 17 (2010) 2, pp. 179-194
Purpose – The paper aims to explore how the undue state control leads to the weak stock market in China. It analyzes … how the undue state control is exerted in some key areas in the Chinese stock market. This paper intends to expand the … development of the listed companies and the whole economy, the state should first release its control on the stock market …
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The control of the Shari'a Supervisory Board in the Islamic financial institutions
Nathan Garas, Samy - In: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 8-24
Purpose – The Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) maintain better control over their transactions than conventional … financial institutions (CFIs) through the existence of Shari'a Supervisory Board (SSB) and Shari'a Control Department (SCD). The … internal audit. The study identifies five independent variables that affect the SSB control: ex‐ante Shari'a audit; ex …
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The Dominant perspective, instituitional ownership, and corporate efficiency: An empirical investigation
Chowdhury, Shamsud D. - In: International Journal of Commerce and Management 15 (2005) 3/4, pp. 255-271
This study is an attempt to verify the mostly anecdotal or case‐based assertions regarding the imperviousness of Japanese management to the threats of large institutional stockholders. Using data drawn from 118 corporations in five industry sectors, and applying an econometric technique, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014766320
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The sum of all fears: do directors have valid concerns on the unintended impact of new regulations?
Clarke, Christopher J. - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 6 (2006) 1, pp. 6-10
Purpose – The purpose of the research and paper is to ensure that the views of incumbent directors are not ignored. This is against a background of baying for reform from the media, politicians and badly burned investors following the wave of corporate scandals. Design/methodology/approach –...
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An analysis of withdrawn shareholder proposals
Foley, Maggie; Cebula, Richard; Jun, Chulhee; Boylan, Robert - In: Corporate Governance 15 (2015) 4, pp. 546-562
Purpose – This study aims to analyze withdrawn shareholder proposals to gain insight into the role of shareholder proposals in the governance of public corporations. Design/methodology/approach – A cursory look at the data suggests that unions are the most likely group to withdraw proposals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014695596
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Compensation committees: independence and firm performance
Lee, Sharon Kay; Bosworth, William; Kudo, Franklin - In: Managerial Finance 42 (2016) 1, pp. 23-33
Purpose – Recently all major stock exchanges issued a requirement that listed companies have 100 percent independence on audit committees of the board of directors but now the focus has turned to compensation committees. Does 100 percent independence on compensation committees make a...
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Modelling spreading of an infection using time series by a novel family of models; fitting the time series of the confirmed cases of COVID-19 in China
Jamshidi, Babak; Jamshidi Zargaran, Shahriar; Rezaei, … - In: Epidemiologic Methods 9 (2020) s1
model the propagation of almost all infectious diseases. After a general discussion on competent time series to model the … parameters of two samples of the novel family to model the spreading of COVID-19 in China. Discussion Our model does not work … well when the decreasing trend of the rate of growth is absent because it is the main presumption of the model. In addition …
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Stepwise Markov model: a good method for forecasting mechanical ventilator crisis in COVID-19 pandemic
Olmos, Pablo R.; Borzone, Gisella R. - In: Epidemiologic Methods 10 (2021) s1
contagiousness. We developed a stepwise Markov model (a) to make a short-term prediction of the number of patients on ventilator, and … previous 14 days, we calculated a Markov model every 5 days thereafter, resulting in a daily estimate of patients on ventilator …. Our model estimated ventilator shortage in Chile for June 1st, if the number of devices had remained stable. However, the …
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Modelling information‐seeking behaviour of graduate students at Kuwait University
Al‐Muomen, Nujoud; Morris, Anne; Maynard, Sally - In: Journal of Documentation 68 (2012) 4, pp. 430-459
Purpose – This paper seeks to report the results of research conducted to model the information‐seeking behaviour of … which is affiliated to the government sector, however, the information seeking model is more widely applicable, particularly … to other developing countries. Originality/value – Proposed is an information‐seeking model that extended two other …
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Presenting bibliographic families
Merčun, Tanja; Žumer, Maja; Aalberg, Trond - In: Journal of Documentation 72 (2016) 3, pp. 490-526
records (FRBR) and information visualization, the paper proposes a model and user interface design that could support a more … brings together all versions of a work, related works, and other works by and about the author and shows how the model was … and was also limited by the selected sample of records. Practical implications – The model for presenting and interacting …
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