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Income inequality and health: importance of a cross-country perspective

Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; … - 2010

This paper uses a unique dataset-containing information collected in 2006 on individuals aged 40-79 in 21 countries throughout the world to examine whether individual income, relative income in a reference group, and income inequality are related to health status across middle/low and...

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SECURITY DESIGN THAT ADDRESSES AGENCY CONFLICTS AND INFORMATION ASYMMETRY

Tewari, Manish - 2008

the light of agency theory and asymmetric information. The focus is on the nonconvertible callable-puttable fixed …-coupon bonds. The primary objective is to discern the marginal role of the put and put-deferred features in addressing the agency …

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Managerial ownership and firm performance in Thailand: An empirical analysis

Graduate School of Business

This study investigates whether managerial share ownership serves to enhance or detract from firm performance in listed companies in Thailand. The convergence-of-interest hypothesis asserts that firm value increases as management ownership rises. On the other hand, when managers own a...

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Agency, socio-cultural context, and the role of the technical communicator during IT adoption: a case study in innovation diffusion across cultures.

Coggio, Grace Leinbach - 2010

study method, this project explores the influence of socio-cultural context and agency on the decision to adopt the new … innovation diffusion. This case suggests that by engaging their rhetorical agency during IT adoption, technical communicators can … empower users to participate more fully in the adoption-decision process. One of the more notable findings concerning agency …

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Institutional owners and competitive rivalry

Tihanyi, Laszlo (contributor) - 2008

. The results presentedhere change the way we apply agency theory to explain firm governance. For competitivedynamics …

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Enclosure Within and Without the Commons

McCann, Anthony - 2004

"Over the last number of years I have been focusing on the expansion of intellectual property discourses and practices among those who involve themselves in Irish traditional culture. In particular, my theoretical focus has turned to the analysis of expansionary social dynamics that involve the...

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Competing Manufacturers in a Retail Supply Chain: On Contractual Form and Coordination

Kok, A. Gurhan - 2010

It is common for a retailer to sell products from competing manufacturers. How then should the firms manage their contract negotiations? The supply chain coordination literature focuses either on a single manufacturer selling to a single retailer or one manufacturer selling to many (possibly...

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Factors' Contributing to the Competitive Advantage of the Lithuanian Public Relations Agencies

Drevinskas, Dalius - 2010

The Thesis deals with the question of competitive advantage of the public relations agencies in Lithuania. The aim of the study is to find the factors that influence competitive advantage of the PR agencies in Lithuania. The other major objective of the work is try to identify the reasons of...

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Divisional Managers and Internal Capital Markets

Duchin, Ran - 2010

impact of connections on investment efficiency depends on the tradeoff between agency and information asymmetry. When …

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Agency and the deunionisation of managers in an Australian telecommunications company

Barton, R; Van den Broek, D - 2011

's concerns over middle management agency prompted them to reframe the concept of a manager by using a set of managerial practices …

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