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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Growth Opportunities"”.
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Next generation business intelligence software, areas for growth & opportunities for innovation
… to support these significant changes. Areas of growth and opportunities for new innovation within the BI software industry will be explored that will enable stakeholders to take full advantage of this new and exciting opportunity.
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Do freshwater growth opportunities and migration barriers limit recovery of imperiled anadromous Oncorhynchus mykiss populations?
… flow. We also evaluated the annual and summer growth potential of Oncorhynchus mykiss at various life stages (age 1-2, age 2-3 and age 3-4) above and below anadromous barriers in rivers to determine whether growth was limited by environmental conditions within the watershed, and if so, whether …
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The Effect of Professional Growth Opportunities as Determined by California Public High School Instrumental Music Teachers
… all teachers to participate in professional growth activities by showing evidence of 150 hours of professional growth every five years (Ed. Code §44277-2b). The purposes of this study were to examine the professional growth habits and needs of high school instrumental music teachers in the …
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An Empirical Examination of Physical Asset Expenditure Announcements in Australia: Growth Opportunities, Free Cash Flow and Capital Market Monitoring
… ¶ Three primary hypotheses pertaining to growth opportunities, free cash flow theory, and the capital market monitoring argument are developed and tested. ... ¶ This thesis makes the following contributions. First, this thesis presents the initial empirical evidence concerning physical …
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An Empirical Examination of Physical Asset Expenditure Announcements in Australia: Growth Opportunities, Free Cash Flow and Capital Market Monitoring
… ¶ Three primary hypotheses pertaining to growth opportunities, free cash flow theory, and the capital market monitoring argument are developed and tested. ... ¶ This thesis makes the following contributions. First, this thesis presents the initial empirical evidence concerning physical …
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The effect of peer firms determining firm capital structure: evidence from manufacturing in Malaysia
… of profitability with capital structure and growth opportunities exists. In order to achieve this, panel data techniques (static and dynamic) using the sample of 169 public listed firms from manufacturing sector over the period of 6 years (2011-2016) were used. The results showed that firm …
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Internal Capital Market and Capital Misallocation: Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs
… fails to meet the needs of the relatively low growth divisions for less investment and the needs of the relatively high growth divisions for more investment. Higher differences in growth opportunities imply that more capital is misallocated. This study finds that the higher the difference in …
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Business cycle, reallocation of labor and asset prices
… of stock returns. In the model firms having more growth opportunities benefit from recessions due to more slack in the labor market which allows them to expand quicker and convert higher share of their growth opportunities into profitable projects. This feature generates a return spread between …
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Implications of the market and regulatory environment in China on multinational water companies
… played in fuelling China's continued economic growth, and implemented a series of water policy reforms in the 1990s which opened up Chinese municipal water services to multinational water companies. In this paper, we track the development of the Chinese municipal water sector to understand how …
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Two Essays on Multiple Directorships
… with multiple directorships for firms with high growth opportunities and low agency conflicts. Such firms would benefit more from better advising while not suffering much from less monitoring. Likewise, firm performance is negatively associated with multiple directorships for firms with low …
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Research Project Number 1 Determinants of Capital Structure
… are Firm Size, Asset Tangibility, Profitability, Growth Opportunities and Volatility of Earnings. Both dependent variable and independent variables were determined by computing the average over five years from 1993 and 2006. In this research, it was observed that the Firm Size, Asset Tangibility, …
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Technical and scale efficiency in Zambia's agro-progressing industry: a firm level data envelope analysis of the 2011/2012 manufacturing census
… manufacturing. We start by exploring the growth opportunities and highlighting the key sectors of comparative advantage. Thereafter, we apply the Data Envelopment Analysis algorithm to construct measures of technical and scale efficiency for a sample of 115 firms using the 2011/2012 …
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Forgotten Leaders: An Examination Of Professional Learning Needs Of California's Rural Superintendent-Principals
… isolation and lack of relevant professional growth opportunities are common challenges for California’s rural school administrators. More than 27% of California’s 1,026 public school districts employ superintendent–principals as their sole administrator. The problem examined in this study is …
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Improving employee commitment
… with their level of job enjoyment, personal growth opportunities, sense of control and importance people felt in their jobs, recognition, and the level of personal and job support they received. The study concluded, that in order to increase employee commitment, in those identified as less …
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The relationship between access to debt finance and viability of small & medium enterprises in Zimbabwe
… are other factors such as size of business, growth opportunities, number of employees and the ratio of female to male shareholders. It is therefore recommended that SMEs managers and policy makers should be mindful of the type of debt availed to SMEs since shortterm debt is positively related …
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Three Essays in Financial Economics
… how the composition of assets in place and growth opportunities affect risk premia. Firms with growth opportunities in the form of intangible investments exposed to displacement risk have larger expected returns than firms with growth opportunities in the form of tangible investments. I …
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Three essays in corporate finance
… with liquidity. In Chapter 1, I find that the growth opportunities of young firms substantially contribute to the negative relationship between Tobin's q and corporate diversification. The growth opportunities of young firms increase the market value of these firms, but not the book value of …
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Non-traditional growth in large, established firms
… of competitive advantage. The challenges to growth are more severe for large, established firms that derive a predominant amount of their present revenue from technology that is mature and that faces imminent substitution through the marketplace emergence of a disruptive technology. In such …
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Power generation from geothermal resources : challenges and opportunities
… and Hot Dry Rock (HDR). The thesis assesses growth opportunities for, and challenges to, the full deployment of geothermal power systems in the electricity market. It analyzes the key impediments that - have and will affect the attractiveness of geothermal technologies, describes policy …
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An Analysis of Major Facilitators to Their Success as Reported by Successful Women Administrators.
… programs, training programs, as well as informal opportunities. Emotional intelligence was also examined in the context of this research.</p><p>The findings of this qualitative study yielded the facilitators of success as identified by successful women leaders. Facilitators identified included …
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