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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"hubris"”.
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Cultural Values and Risk and Benefit Perceptions: An Examination of the Mediating Roles of Trust and Knowledge Hubris
… fracking, I introduce the concept of knowledge hubris and examine the cultural value-based origins of knowledge hubris and the resulting role knowledge hubris plays in predicting risk and benefit perceptions associated with fracking. Further, I compare the role of knowledge hubris in risk and …
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Will CARICOM countries be vulnerable to financial crises as a result of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): the Cotonou Agreement?
… concepts of globalisation, volatility risk and hubris (of leadership, economic thought and a weak regulatory environment). This study seeks to establish whether financial crises may occur when the variables of globalisation, volatility risk and hubris within a weak regulatory environment …
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The Method of Payment Choice in Real Estate Investment Trust Property Acquisitions
… hypothesis, however, the present value and 'hubris' hypotheses remain viable explanations.
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THE IMPACT OF MANAGERIAL OVERCONFIDENCE AND INVESTOR SENTIMENT ON BIDDERS’ ABNORMAL RETURNS
… follows. Chapter 3 empirically investigates the hubris hypothesis for corporate takeovers (Roll (1986)). This thesis examines whether overconfident managers destroy shareholder value (in public deals) or whether their actions generally lead to lower wealth effects (in private deals) relative to …
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One man's wickedness : malignant narcissism and major blunders in international relations
… narcissism is a personality syndrome marked by hubris, paranoia, and reckless indifference to the human consequences of decisions. Malignant-narcissistic leaders tend to commit major blunders in international relations. Examples include Saddam, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Nasser. …
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Dorian Gray: The Myth
… cautionary tale against the Aesthetic Movement's hubris in pursuit of beauty and art above all else. While acknowledging Dorian as a metaphorical Narcissus that critiques societal norms, a deeper exploration comparing the myth and novel’s narratives unveils a broader critique of the Aesthetic …
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The Central Intelligence Agency and Cuba: How the Trap of Success Led to the Bay of Pigs
… success in Iran and Guatemala fueled American hubris and obviated the recognition of warning signs, which led to the approval of an operation doomed to fail.</p>
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The effect of mergers and acquisitions on shareholder returns
… effect for shareholders of firms involved. The Hubris theory hypothesises that mergers and acquisitions affect the value of the firms as well as shareholder wealth. This theory predicts that as a result of mergers and acquisitions, the value of target firms rises, whilst the value of bidding …
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Perceptions of Delinquency among Male Athletes and Non-Athletes: A Qualitative Investigation
… contend that the "jock identity" or "sport hubris" is largely responsible, as people think they will be treated more favorably if they are athletes (Miller et al., 2006). This perception raises the question of whether athletes know and understand the constructs of delinquency. Thus the …
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Aleksej Konstantinovic Tolstoj and Russian Romanticism
… its most religious writer. Tolstoj had the hubris to advance a world view, to re-write Dante and the Bible and to offend every political and literary interest. Touched by Catholicism as had been Novalis and the German Romantics, Tolstoj's works were most thoroughly shaped by German Idealism …
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StorySpace : spatial semantic comparison of narrative
… determination can often trump talent, and that hubris can lead to one's downfall. It would be quite useful to develop a computational technique to apply this type of analysis to a story to relate to more generic cases. In this paper, I demonstrate the beginnings of a technique called Spatial …
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‘Past, Present, and Hereafter to be Written’: The Polytemporal Identities of John Dee
… by a conflict between his intellectual hubris and personal insecurity. Dee emerges as a figure poised uncomfortably in and outside of his society’s conceptions of temporality, influenced by the past and self-consciously aware of the future. The temporal fracturing prompted by the …
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The people in the city of the nation : re-viewing Islamabad's fifth function
… for large-scale planning, both operated with a hubris-laden confidence in developing rational solutions to urban and national dilemmas, technocratic strategies employed as a means to realize grand visions. In this way, Islamabad was conceived by both as part of something much larger-Ayub's …
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The short-term market reaction to U.S. bank M&As
… This result is consistent with the synergy and hubris hypothesis wherein bank M&As are wealth-creating events as synergies exist; however, bidders may overpay to realize these gains. The M&As are examined by the method with which they are financed, namely, cash, or a combination of cash, stock, …
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Analysis of Literary Devices in Selected Novels of Severine Ndunguru
… imagery, exclamation, dialogue, repetitions, hubris, symbolism and personification. Also the writer succeeds in employing the English language to present these literary devices, and these literary devices show their usefulness in the thematic part of the novels. The analysis of these works …
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Vita Beata
… of their clients, or their own intellectual hubris, but entirely miss this highest aim of architecture. Such an epicurean design position demands that the highest priority be placed on architectural relationships and conditions which serve people in their endeavor to be reconciled and at …
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Challenges to American Military and Economic Dominance in Space
… have been vigorously resisted. The growing hubris of American foreign policy strategy has contributed to resistance to American hegemony and challenges to US dominance in space. Rising great powers seek to emulate US military technological dominance in space whilst seeking ways to level the …
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The Turning Point of Who Shall Be Master: Killer of Sheep, Naming, Gender, and the Gaze of African American Women
… them and establishing them as humans, capable of hubris, humanity, and vulnerability. This neo-realistic film masterfully rebirthed the African American male identity; unfortunately, though, neglected to uplift Black women from the roles that far preceded Blaxploitation.</p> <p>Blaxploitation …
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Information friction : information technology and military performance
… contributes to tactical blunders and misplaced hubris. As militaries invest intensively in IT, they also tend to develop larger headquarters staffs, depend more heavily on planning and intelligence, and employ a larger percentage of personnel in knowledge work rather than physical combat. Both …
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