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Does Ownership Matter in Ethnic Media Firms? The Economic Goals of Media Firms for Ethnic Groups and Media Firms Owned by Ethnic Groups
This study uses secondary data to examine the impact the ownership has on the economic goals of ethnic newspapers. A comparison between 24 newspapers owned by ethnic groups (media-by) and 24 newspapers for ethnic groups (media-for) showed a pattern consistent with media-for newspapers being more …
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Accounting Firms and Tax Aggressiveness
… tax services, especially the role of accounting firms which provide audit services at the same time to their clients, has received significant public attention. One salient concern is the appropriateness of an audit division reviewing the work conducted by the tax division of the same accounting …
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Managing resource constraints in firms
Small, new or foreign firms inherently have a lower likelihood of surviving in the market. Frequently, this is due to the existence of resource constraints, such as the liabilities of smallness, newness or foreignness. Consequently, to survive in the market, small, new or foreign firms need to find …
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Tobin's Q for Canadian firms
Defined as the ratio of market value to replacement cost of tangible assets, Tobin's q is commonly used as a performance measure in research. Although the use of the q ratio is theoretically appealing, its empirical construction is subject to considerable measurement error. In this thesis, we …
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Frictions in firms and markets
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Firms, contracts, and trade structure
… model pins down the boundaries of multinational firms as well as the international location of production. Econometric evidence reveals that the model is consistent with other qualitative and quantitative features of the data. In the second essay, I develop a dynamic, general-equilibrium …
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Supporting High-growth Firms - The development of a conceptual model to support high-growth firms
… Wales. Extant literature shows that high-growth firms (HGFs) make a disproportionate contribution to the economy. Public-funded accelerators are one method by which the Welsh Government is seeking to encourage and support HGFs. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, the study uses semi …
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INNOVATION IN DECLINING AND DISTRESSED FIRMS
<p>Firms often face performance shortfalls, either relative to their past performance or relative to their competitors' performance. Sometimes, performance shortfalls are so severe that firms are forced into bankruptcy. This dissertation investigates how organizations respond to such performance …
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Small Audit Firms and Earnings Manipulations
… examines the monitoring role of small audit firms (i.e., those with 100 or fewer clients who are subject to different levels of oversight by the PCAOB) on earnings management. Specifically, I examine the relationship between earnings manipulations and the use of small audit firms. I find that …
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Diversity In Am Law 200 Firms
… on the factors contributing to more diverse law firms. The intent of this paper is an empirical investigation of those variables that have caused increases in diversity at both the associate and partner level. My research suggests leverage, the ratio of associates to partners, may be the most …
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Local Interactions Between Firms And Consumers
… studies how the spatial distributions of firms and consumers shape their interactions in local credit markets. For firms, proximity provides information about the preferences and credit quality of local consumers. For consumers, it facilitates gathering information about product …
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Climate Change Disclosures in Family Firms
… guidance requiring publicly listed firms to disclose material climate change risks (CCR) in their annual securities filings (10Ks). However, considering the level of enforcement and managerial discretion in the definition of materiality, market participants raised concerns about the …
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ESSAYS ON FIRMS AND LABOR MARKETS
… These modestly subsidized loans could enable firms to survive and grow. Alternatively, they might prop up firms that should exit, or crowd out private lenders. We show that the loans reduce exit and bankruptcy, increase employment and revenue, unlock private credit, and reduce delinquency. …
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Managerial Thinking and Large Diversified Firms
… factors that confront the managers of these firms. As Grant, et al. suggest, the "total impact of diversification on performance depends on complex interactions between diversification strategy, corporate capabilities and resources, and external environment" (1988: 795). How managers …
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Scalability and scaling in digital firms
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Essays on Firms in International Trade
… through three distinct topics. I examine how firms adjust their technology investment to foreign competition and demand, and how firm performance is affected by a global trade policy shock. And I investigate the dynamics of firms’ choices of invoicing currencies for exports over time. My first …
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Essays into Firms, Innovation and Productivity
… using a dataset of the Korean manufacturing firms, it is found that R&D increases firm-level markups, despite its size being small. To account for the fact that R&D is simply a measure of the innovation input, patent counts have been used as an alternative measure of innovation, but no …
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Essays on firms in developing countries
… of three chapters on microeconomic issues of firms in developing countries and the impact of government policies on business growth. The first chapter examines firms' incentive to establish a reputation for quality. A key problem in developing countries is the lack of reliable provision of …
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