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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Conflict of interests"”.
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Corporate governance and strategic action within the context of antitakeover corporate charter amendments
"To reduce conflict of interests between stockholders and management, agency theory indicates several monitoring mechanisms, including internal board of director control and the external ""market for corporate control."" Management theorists and economists have independently conducted previous …
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Mating dynamics of South African forest millipedes : Centrobolus (Diplopoda: Pachybolidae)
This study focuses on the mating dynamics of South African forest millipedes Centrobolus (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Pachybolidae). The main objectives were to investigate the two most common mechanisms of sexual selection, sperm competition and cryptic female choice. The approach was to (1) quantify …
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Contracting in Direct Asset Sales
<p>Using a unique, hand-collected dataset of direct asset sales agreements in the SEC filings, I provide the first large-sample evidence on how contracting mechanisms are used to mitigate information frictions in these important transactions. The conflict of interests is unique because the scarcity …
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George W. Bush, September 11th and the rise of the Freedom Agenda in US-Middle East relations: a Constructivist Institutionalist approach
This thesis generates a greater understanding of the George W. Bush administration’s Freedom Agenda for the Middle East and North Africa. It is motivated by two central research questions: How and why was the Freedom Agenda developed? And, how was the Freedom Agenda constituted? To address these …
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Egoism: Arguments for and against it from western philosophy
… I shall be concerned with the presupposition of egoism: acting only for self-interested reasons is in one's long-term interest. I shall be concerned with this presupposition's truth with respect only to cases in which one's interests conflict with those of others. So I shall be concerned with …
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A surrogate mother’s post-birth contact with the family formed through surrogacy: a missed opportunity for South Africa or opening pandora’s box?
This dissertation assesses the suitability of South Africa’s current framework on post-birth contact in surrogacy law and explores whether it adequately protects the interests of all parties to the surrogacy agreement. This assessment reviewed the current legislative and practical framework, and …
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Climate Change Displacement and Global Governance: a Case Study of Three Intergovernmental Organizations and the Conflict Between the Member States and Bureaucracy
Climate change is a topic most often broached by environmental scientists and activists and its effects are discussed in terms of animal populations and atmospheric events. However, its direct effect on human life is yet to garner such attention. A changing climate will affect how people are able …
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Teacher Perceptions on the Ethics of Using Corporate-Sponsored Curriculum in the Classroom
… has always been a hotly debated issue. Is it a conflict of interests if companies provide material and information to schools? Or is it their civic responsibility and best interest to help promote education in order to create exceptional future employees? As budget cuts continue to devastate …
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UN Peacekeeping Operations: Conflicting Interests and Effectiveness
Private interests influence the decisions of troop-providers to deploy troops to UN peacekeeping missions. The pursuit of private benefits affects how peacekeeping missions’ mandates are fulfilled. While some troop-providers align with the UN’s ideals and directives, others act in favor of their …
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Ethical leadership in the Limpopo Provincial Public Service of South Africa: an imperative for good governance
The study reviews and assess the impact of ethical leadership in promotion of good governance in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. Since the inception of the province in 1994, the provincial government witnessed an alarming statistics of unethical behaviour within its echelons. The media …
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Conflict Management Among Church Elders: A Delphi Study
… to enhance church elders’ ability to manage conflict amongst themselves in ways that honor God and benefit the church. With a firm commitment to building upon the biblical foundation for Christian conflict management, this study sought to discover which, if any, are the concepts and practices …
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The Euromarket and the making of the transnational network of finance 1959 - 1979
This thesis analyses the role of the Euromarket, an offshore market for Eurodollars or expatriate US dollars, in the re-emergence of global finance during the 1960s and 1970s. It charts not only its Cold War origins and the development of various markets for Eurodollars, but also institutions and …
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POLICING INTERNET FRAUD: A study of the tensions between private and public models of policing fraudulent activity in cyberspace with particular focus on South Korea and special reference to the United Kingdom and the United States
… In recent years we have seen the maturation of new digital environments in which financial transactions can take place while at the same time we have seen an explosion in incidences of identity theft. This unprecedented rise in internet fraud is depressing growth in e-commerce activities and …
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The Behavioral and Neural Bases of Social Economic Decision-Making
… considers the well-being and emotions of others. Unlike traditional economics which routinely assumes that individuals care only about their own outcomes, behavioral economics and neuroeconomics offer research strategies which help us explore our social motivations. This dissertation …
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A pre-impoundment study of the biological diversity of the benthic macro-invertebrate fauna of the Sabie-Sand River system
… the Eastern Transvaal provides a classic example of the potential conflict of interests between the industrial, agricultural and domestic sectors and conservation. The KNP is situated on the north-eastern border of South Africa and receives the flow of six rivers (Figure 0.1), all •of which …
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Corporatisation in local government: Exploring subsidiary governance in local authorities – a critical review and multi- level case study
The pursuit of greater efficiency in a time of austerity has led local governments to deliver local services using subsidiary companies. Academics refer to this strategy as corporatisation. However, in recent times there has been high-profile local authority company failings attributed to poor …
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Strategic dynamic vehicle routing with spatio-temporal dependent demands
… vehicle routing problems address the issue of determining optimal routes for a set of vehicles, to serve a given set of demands that arrive sequentially in time. Traditionally, demands are assumed to be generated over time by an exogenous stochastic process. This thesis is concerned with the …
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Fleet Street's dilemma : the British press and the Soviet Union, 1933-1941
… in the 1930s contributes to an understanding of the failed cooperation, prior to 1941, between the British and Soviet Governments. During the trial of six British engineers in Moscow in 1933, the conservative press jingoistically responded by demanding stringent economic action against the …
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The Contemporary Malaysian Fantastic Film: Imagining an Alternative Modernity
… films possess critical characteristics: they offer an alternative version of an imagined community and undermine the status quo. These films deploy elements of fantasy to negotiate the dominant notions of cultural and national identity in Malaysia. However, my study notes that the degree of …
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