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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Corporate Policy"”.
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Constrained predictive control for corporate policy
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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Corporate Governance and Institutional Trading
… preventive effect of hedge fund activism against corporate policy deviations. Using stock liquidity and mutual fund fire sales as instruments, I find that when the likelihood of hedge fund activism increases, firms respond by paying shareholder more and CEOs less, holding less cash and leveraging …
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Essays in corporate finance and corporate management
… dissertation contains two chapters that study corporate cash holdings and corporate management. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter.Chapter 1 is titled: Easy Come, Easy Go: Cheap Cash and Bad Corporate Decisions. This chapter investigates the relationship between the sources of …
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The politics of AIDS: An analysis of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
… (ACT UP) continues to pressure the government, corporate America, and society into confronting the AIDS epidemic. This work analyzes ACT UP as a movement organization. First, the organizational structure of ACT UP is discussed. All aspects (membership, leadership, revenue, etc) which make ACT UP …
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Going Backstage: Examining Justice Perceptions of Electronic Performance Monitoring
… in understanding employee reactions towards corporate policy implementations in a broader context.</p>
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Essays on entrepreneurship and management
… 3: Contrasts in Styles and Managers Impact on Corporate Policy This essay proposes a new approach to study how corporate policies change upon the replacement of the CEO. We employ corrected simultaneous tests (not subjected to the criticism attributed to the F-test) on the CEO fixed effects and …
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BACKPEDALING NUGGET SMUGGLERS: A FACEBOOK AND NEWS ARTICLE THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF CHICK-FIL-A VS. GAY MARRIAGE
… mixed his personal opinion on social issues with corporate policy in June 2012. The thematic analysis draws from three distinct data sets that include 3,900 Facebook comments posted by the general public on CFA’s social media page, 32 individual Atlanta Journal-Constitution news articles that …
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An exploration of the impact of the Green-Schools programme on the development of sustainable behaviours in the home
… to remedy human impact on our environment at corporate, policy and consumer level. But concerns on our ability to progress the sustainability agenda remain. Consumer behaviour plays a pivotal role in sustainable development. In light of this, we need to explore and understand the ways in which …
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From business 'and' human rights to human rights 'in' business
… and Human Rights, which set out the norm of ‘corporate responsibility to respect human rights’. This interpretive qualitative study explores the meaning-making processes of human rights and business responsibility as articulated in governmental and corporate policy documents and by a variety …
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Choices, constraints and strategies of independence: retail store managers and the management of human resources
… in multiple store retailing and its link with corporate strategy is discussed. Particular consideration is made to the devolution of employee resourcing responsibilities to store level managers. The nature of retail management at local level is investigate followed by an examination of their …
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Essays in international corporate finance
… comprises two essays that study the link between corporate exposure to international markets, liquidity management and hedging through debt in foreign currency. Chapter 1: Currency Exposure and Liquidity Management. Exchange rate movements present many risks for globalized companies, such as …
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Essays on Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
… and power that passive investors have to affect corporate policy by supporting fellow shareholder sponsored proposals.In the second essay, we investigate the effectiveness of shareholder voice. In 2017, “The Big Three” institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on …
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The Logic of Corporate Communication Design
The development of programmatic corporate communications in Britain is attributable to a cluster of post-war designers who used graphics to furnish groups of artefacts with a ‘family likeness’. As their commissions progressed from the odd artefact to the all embracing corporate policy, they formed …
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A systems-based approach to integrating security risk management into the management practice & culture of a global multi-national organisation
I work in the Corporate Security department of a global multi-national company that operates a wide range of businesses in many complex and turbulent environments, including developing countries and those recovering from conflict or similar strife. To help deliver the best level of protection for …
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Christian brethren, union brother: a study of the relationship between religious nonconformity and trade union leadership, in the life of the coal mining deputies' official, W. T. Miller (1880-1963)
… style. Care is taken not to crudely explain the corporate policy of the trade union by one individual's religious beliefs. Instead, an 'elective affinity' is drawn between the type of union the deputies became and the sort of trade union style Miller's religious ethic predisposed him towards. …