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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Geographic expansion"”.
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Geographic expansion and small stream use by three species of invasive Asian carp in Illinois
… habitats by Asian carp, I compared rates of geographic expansion of Asian carp in the Mississippi and Illinois rivers with their tributaries, and conducted a field survey of first through fourth order streams along a 128 km reach of the Illinois River. Data for my analysis of geographic …
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Three Essays on the Financial Advisory Industry: Diversification, Competition, and Misconduct
The first chapter examines how the geographic diversification of financial advisory firms influences adviser misconduct. We find that diversification significantly increases both misconduct and customer complaints. This effect is robust to alternative diversification measures and persists after …
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Three Essays on the Financial Advisory Industry: Diversification, Competition, and Misconduct
The first chapter examines how the geographic diversification of financial advisory firms influences adviser misconduct. We find that diversification significantly increases both misconduct and customer complaints. This effect is robust to alternative diversification measures and persists after …
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Show me the money : promises and pitfalls of asset growth in community development credit unions and loan funds
… (CDLFs) indicate that large CDFIs grow through geographic expansion, customer and product diversification, more debt and equity funding sources, and a focus on fundraising.
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Prizefighting in mid-Victorian Britain.
… it emphasises a nuanced transition marked by geographic expansion and diverse participation in the prize ring. The thesis reveals the integration of prizefighting and British popular culture during this era. It examines variations in prizefighting through chronological, spatial, structural, …
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Three Essays On Merger Outcomes: Corporate Strategy, Bargaining Power, And Valuation Waves
… mergers. The results indicate that geographic expansion creates the largest combined increase in wealth. One-on-one negotiations correspond to greater increases in combined wealth, when compared to mergers that begin with auctions, third-party bids, or mutual discussions. The results …
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Mechanisms of Emerging RNA Virus Adaptation to Hosts
… reservoirs or vectors, opportunities for viral geographic expansion or viral spillover increase. Viral adaptation enabling intra- or interspecies transmission can cause outbreaks on the scale of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) during the coronavirus disease 2019 …
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The Impact of Globalization on Inventory and Financial Performance: A Firm-Level and Industry-Level Analysis
… classic inventory models, transaction costs, geographic economics, and international business and strategy literatures, this dissertation aims to contribute to the construction of a theory of global supply chain management through an empirical testing of hypotheses on the effects of global …
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Surveillance for hard ticks of public health concern in Illinois: methods, application, and education
… number of TBDs cases and the continued geographic expansion of vector tick species, tick and tick-borne pathogen surveillance is a necessary tool in public health. These results point out some of the current knowledge gaps with regards to tick surveillance, present the practical …
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Exploring the influence of funding sources on business incubation in the Western Cape
… base to include incubator financiers; (ii) a geographic expansion to focus on South Africa as a whole.
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TRAVEL TIME AND THE LIABILITY OF DISTANCE
Despite suggestions that the importance of geographic distance between interacting organizations is decreasing due to better communications technologies, this thesis shows that such separation remains important. Measures of geographic distance are commonly used as proxies for the impact of physical …