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Economic sanctions: obstruction or instrument for world trade?

Ali, Abbis J.; Camp, Robert C. - In: Managerial Finance 25 (1999) 3/4, pp. 66-75

Relates Adam Smith’s invisible hand to present day globalization and considers the impact of US trade and economic sanctions on the world economy. Discusses the political roots of these sanctions, their objectives (both overt and covert), costs and incompatibility with free trade. Puts forward...

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The role of interest groups in products liability law

Gedde, David S.; Brahmasrene, Tantatape - In: Managerial Finance 25 (1999) 3/4, pp. 76-89

Describes the impact of recent changes in US tort law and identifies four interest groups concerned: manufacturers, insurance companies, consumers and lawyers. Discusses their relative strengths, motivations and influence on judicial decisions, citing relevant liability cases for...

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U.S. oil company stock returns and currency fluctuations

Mollick, Andre; Nguyen, Khoa H - In: Managerial Finance 41 (2015) 9, pp. 974-994

Purpose – The purpose of this is paper is to pay a closer look at the 2008-2009 financial crisis (and its aftermath) and analyzes stock returns of nine major US oil companies as well as the oil and gas sector under daily data from January 1992 to April 2012. Design/methodology/approach – The...

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U.S. highway public private partnerships

Daito, Nobuhiko; Gifford, Jonathan L. - In: Managerial Finance 40 (2014) 11, pp. 1131-1151

, has been increasing in the USA. The purpose of this paper is to empirically evaluate the difference of P3s and non-P3 … – Controlling for various project characteristics, the P3 highway projects in the USA showed higher initial costs than non-P3 … analyses of the performance of highway P3s in the USA. Also, this is one of the first studies to employ frontier analysis …

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Board structure: an empirical study of firms in Anglo-American governance environments

Muller-Kahle, M.I.; Wang, Liu; Wu, Jun - In: Managerial Finance 40 (2014) 7, pp. 681-699

theories. Design/methodology/approach – Using a sample of firms in the USA and the UK from 2000 to 2007, the paper conducts a … associated with firm value in the USA. Social implications – The paper finds strong support for resource dependence theory in the … UK but limited support for agency theory in the USA. Originality/value – This paper takes a multi-country approach to …

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Great expectations – CEOs’ perception of the performance gap of the HRM function in the Malaysian manufacturing sector

Othman, Rozhan; Abdul‐Ghani, Rohayu; Arshad, Rasidah - In: Personnel Review 30 (2001) 1, pp. 61-80

This study examines the variations in HRM practice among Malaysian manufacturing firms. A typology of HRM practices is first identified, management expectations towards the HRM function and the performance gap of the HR departments are then examined. The findings obtained are then compared with...

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Evaluating EAPs

Carolyn Highley, J.; Cooper, Cary L. - In: Personnel Review 23 (1994) 7, pp. 46-59

Until recently most evaluations of EAPs have been qualitative. In the US there has been a move towards insisting on hard data, i.e. cost‐benefit ratios. The nature of EAPs makes identification of a clear outcome oriented model of intervention difficult if not impossible. Discusses different...

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Review article

Berridge, John R. - In: Personnel Review 25 (1996) 1, pp. 59-64

Reviews the differences between employee assistance programmes (EAPs) in the USA and the UK, but also identifies … convergent trends in the employment environment in both countries. Discusses recent developments for professional EAPs in the USA …

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Employee development programmes

James, Philip - In: Personnel Review 25 (1996) 2, pp. 35-49

Discusses the nature of employee development programmes (EDPs) and the use made of them by UK employers; examines the structure and operation of similar schemes developed jointly by management and union in the “big three” US car companies. Argues that these US EDP schemes, through their use...

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UK Computer Industry: American, British and Japanese Contrasts in Human Resource Management

Oliver, Nick; Lowe, James - In: Personnel Review 20 (1991) 2, pp. 18-23

The management practices of three organisations in the computer industry, one North American, one Japanese and one British owned are described. Although operating in similar marketplaces, markedly different management styles and practices were apparent, with the British company showing much less...

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