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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Share Ownership"”.
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Popular Investment and Speculation in Britain, 1918–1987
… the social and cultural relevance of popular share ownership. Consequently investment is seen as more than an economic activity. Understanding the ways in which social and cultural attitudes towards finance relaxed over time, allows us to better understand the arrival of neoliberalism in …
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Efficacy of corporate governance on corporate disclosure in developing economies: A comparative study of companies listed on selected stock markets in Sub Saharan Africa
… agency costs and information asymmetries between shareholders and managers, hence a tenet of any effective governance system. Although corporate disclosure provides a channel through which shareholders obtain valuable information to make investment decisions, prior studies reported mixed empirical …
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Financial Performance, Governance Characteristics and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK and Nigerian Banks
… and the relationship between CEO share ownership and performance. Finally, this research work compares the pay-performance relationship in both countries. Data for twenty-six listed banks in the UK and thirteen Nigerian banks between 2009 and 2019 were adopted. Using an OLS …
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A theoretical and empirical investigation of prime and score: An application of two-state option pricing model
… Trusts in 1983. These primes and scores enable shareholders to separate the potential capital appreciation above a stipulated dollar amount from the rights to receive dividends and all other attributes of share ownership. Value additivity theorem suggests that the sum of prime prices and score …
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Students' Perspectives on Co-Creation Opportunities Within Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral Level Education Preparation Programs
… seeks to uncover ways in which students wish to share ownership of the learning process. Additionally, this study aims to contribute students’ thoughts to the existing co-creation literature. Incorporating evidence from a survey and multiple participant interviews, this study demonstrates that …
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CORPORATE OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL STRUCTURES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM CONTROL POTENTIAL, AGENCY, AND CONTROL DOMINANCE-CONTESTABILITY PERSPECTIVES ON UK LISTED FIRMS
CORPORATE OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL STRUCTURES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM CONTROL POTENTIAL, AGENCY, AND CONTROL DOMINANCE-CONTESTABILITY PERSPECTIVES ON UK LISTED FIRMS BY: ABDELLA KORMIE DINGA MATERIAL ABSTRACT The research study comprises of two preceding Chapters, three main empirical …
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An investigation into whether the South African and Mauritian preferential holding company regimes may undermine fiscal transparency
… Africa. Governments have identified the need to share ownership information in respect of corporations so as to curb base erosion and profit shifting and to prevent fiscal losses arising from unintended deliberate abuse of double tax treaty benefits. This dissertation examines whether Africa's …
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The Rise of Human Resource Management: Responsibility and Reward
… two areas of inquiry (1) profit sharing and share ownership schemes and (2) managers attitudes to human resource management.<br/><br/>Chapter 1 presents a critical appraisal of previous work on human resource management that places the stimulus for the research and selected publications in …
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Factors affecting Capital Market Development adaptation in Tanzania: A Case Study of Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE)
… DSE aim to achieve broad bases of the share ownership and provision of investment culture in the country. Although some efforts have been put to inculcate investment culture in the country the pace is still low which is associated with low public awareness. The main objective of the …
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Impact of Foreign Directors on Firms’ Corporate Governance, Risk and Performance
… directors’ equity-like compensation and share ownership also positively influences firm performance. Our findings suggest that European and American non executive directors are more effective in improving corporate performance. Finally, we analyse the relationship between foreign …
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The application of systems of performance related remuneration in the UK food industry
… results, commission, profit sharing and employee share ownership plans. This thesis is motivated by the increasing use of performance based remuneration systems and focuses on the use of such systems within one specific industry - the UK food industry. The aim of the thesis is to identify trends …
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The Frolic Model : transforming single-family homes into urban cohousing
… the U.S. "Frolic" is an Amish term referring to shared labor and common vision, used to describe joyous festivals in which over 100 families would come together and raise a barn in one week. In our research, we found that there are several potential mutual gains lost in the current housing …
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Hearing the Employee Owner's Voice: a critical appraisal of indirect mechanisms for hearing the employee owner's voice for the achievement of real involvement, in the growing sector of UK employee owned businesses
… does not provide a clear definition of employee ownership, however, this thesis justifies the use of the term to apply to organisation with either a majority of shares currently being held for or by employees, or organisations with a stated intention to work towards this. As a result of this, the …
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Key Performance indicator disclosures by large UK private and public listed companies.
… non-executive directors, board size and director share ownership) and company specific characteristics (company size and profitability) are significantly associated with the extent of KPI disclosures by private, public listed and the pooled companies. The frequency of board meetings and …
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Essays on Privatization
… in the privatization debate, the underpricing of shares and the effect of ownership on performance. It reviews the most significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the analysis of these two issues, and it introduces the questions addressed in the remaining chapters of this dissertation. …
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Reforming the Chinese corporate governance system: a comparative law and economic analysis.
… law was the well-documented separation of ownership from control and the increase in management control brought about by the wide dispersion of share ownership in large public companies.The growth and complexity of the modern corporation with diversified ownership created the need for …
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Incentives and Firm Behaviors
… </p> <p>Stock illiquidity raises the cost of share ownership to outside investors. The sizable adverse price impact of trading increases transactions costs and stock volatility. The reduced gains from informed trading discourages the acquisition of private information and impedes the price …
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Public pension funds and socially responsible investment in South Africa: a case study of the Public Investment Corporation
… advancing its SRI strategy mainly through active share ownership and developmental impact investing.
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Friesens Corporation, printers in Mennonite Manitoba, 1951-1995
… that the company's profit sharing and employee share ownership plans set it apart from the majority of Canadian private companies. Further, it may be argued that Friesens represents as democratic a model of workplace organization as is possible today for a business with Mennonite roots, given …
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Essays on corporate finance
… Evidence from CDS Spread Response to Shareholders’ Votes This chapter provides causal estimates in support of the hypothesis that improvements in corporate governance benefit the debtholders. By using the outcome of votes on shareholder- sponsored governance proposals at annual …
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