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Dean, Dianne - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 25 (2012) 7, pp. 1237-1240

Purpose – The aim is to contrast two fictional responses to the increasing investment into Australian farmland by …

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Investor Interests and Government Accounting Disclosure

Giroux, Gary; Deis, Donald - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 6 (1993) 1

Analyses disclosure levels from annual reports and budgets from US municipalities, based on the expected incentives of municipal bond investors. Disclosure levels for both budgets and annual reports are variable, suggesting that the quality of disclosures may be based on key actor incentives....

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Social Disclosure and the Individual Investor

Epstein, Marc J.; Freedman, Martin - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 7 (1994) 4, pp. 94-109

The demand for social information by individual investors is supported by the survey reported in this study. Based on the results of the 1991 survey on the usefulness of annual reports to corporate shareholders, there appears to be a strong demand for information about product safety and...

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Against Japanization: understanding the reorganization of British manufacturing

Procter, Stephen; Ackroyd, Stephen - In: Employee Relations 20 (1998) 3, pp. 237-247

In the late 1980s, the idea of Japanization dominated debates about the restructuring of production, work and industrial relations in this country. There was, of course, some evidence to support the Japanization thesis; yet, even at the time of the strongest influence, there were indications...

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Investment in management training and development by small businesses

Loan‐Clarke, John; Boocock, Grahame; Smith, Alison; … - In: Employee Relations 21 (1999) 3, pp. 296-311

small businesses in the Midlands region of the UK sought to: identify influences on MTD investment and preferred MTD … activities; and establish whether small businesses perceive a link between investment in MTD and business success. Interviews … of managers and family management have a significant influence on MTD investment. Of the sample organisations, 85 per …

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The impact of human resources practices on consumers’ investment intentions

Ferreira, Aristides I.; Martinez, Luis F.; Rodrigues, … - In: Employee Relations 39 (2017) 4, pp. 475-486

on the influence of human resources (HR) practices on investment intentions in the financial sector. Design … with contrasting HR practices. Subsequently, they had to choose – from a given virtual amount – their investment …

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Not featherbedding, but feathering the nest: human resource management and investments in information technology

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 21 (2013) 3

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Emerging economic sectors in the third millennium: introduction and overview of the “big five”

Molitor, Graham T.T. - In: Foresight 2 (2000) 3, pp. 323-329

investment opportunities and dead‐ends, new growth sectors and declining ones, jobs and livelihoods, and the overall …

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Sequential investment and delay: an agribusiness firm case study

Hachicha, Sameh; Kaaniche, Leila; Abid, Fathi - In: Agricultural Finance Review 71 (2011) 2, pp. 240-258

Purpose – Investment decisions by agribusiness firms are costly and subject to high volatility and uncertainty. In many … evolve over time can affect sequential investment decisions in the oleic oil industry in Tunisia. Design …/methodology/approach – The methodology used to capture the investment project value and analyze the impact of lags between the initial investment …

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Off‐farm income and farm capital accumulation: a farm‐level analysis

Lagerkvist, Carl J.; Larsen, Karin; Olson, Kent D. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 67 (2007) 2, pp. 241-257

An intertemporal model in which farm capital accumulation and work choices by a single‐agent farm household are interdependent is developed and tested using a farm‐level data set. Estimation is done using a recursive two‐step simultaneous censored equations model. The results of this study...

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