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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"information environment"”.
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Information Environment and Gains from Corporate Takeovers
… as the theoretical and practical importance of information environment in the takeover market, this thesis examines the wealth effects of information environment on UK takeovers. It regards information dissemination as a process inherent in takeover announcements, along which, factors capturing …
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Remote Sensing, Inference, and Intelligence in the Information Environment
… deal with malicious actions in the information environment (IE). We are motivated by the profusion of research since 2016 aiming to understand, predict, and respond to various phenomena like mis- and disinformation within online social interactions. We begin by outlining three layers …
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How does the information environment affect information asymmetry around earnings announcements?
This paper shows that the information environment is an important determinant of private information acquisition and changes in information asymmetry around earnings announcements. I create a sample of earnings announcements from 39 countries and investigate whether firm and country-level variation …
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Transcending the Fight: Culture, Power, and Adaptation to the Information Environment
… are now using this digitized world to project information power in order to get what they want, regardless if they are using unethical or illegal means such as cyber hacking or creating disinformation campaigns to skew voters' opinions. This poses a new challenge for national security …
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APPLYING INFORMATION DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND METHODS TO OPERATIONS IN THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT
The flood of information has saturated the battlespace, and it is imperative that commanders and their staffs are able to sift through the irrelevant information and pull out the actionable information required to make decisions. The objective of the proposed project was to apply Information Design …
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Personal Information Environment: A Framework for Managing Personal Files across a Set of Devices
… individual user as one is achieved in a Personal Information Environment. Data recharging is a technique used to achieve a Personal Information Environment for an individual user using data replication. In this thesis, we propose a data recharging scheme for an individual user’s Personal …
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The Information Environment of Academic Library Directors: Use of Information Resources and Communication Technologies
This study focuses on the use of information resources and communication technologies, both traditional and electronic, by academic library directors. The purpose is to improve understanding of managerial behavior when using information resources and communication technologies within a shared …
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The Causal Effects of Mandatory Quarterly Earnings Guidance on Corporate Information Environment and Corporate Short-Termism
… required to issue such guidance, their corporate information environment deteriorates, evidenced by reduced analyst coverage, fewer site visits, and lower price timeliness, meaning that stock prices incorporate less information about current and future earnings. However, these firms increase R&D …
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Sanctioned and Controlled Message Propagation in a Restrictive Information Environment: The Small World of Clandestine Radio Broadcasting
… message propagation systems in a restrictive environment. It pays attention to message propagation by sanctioned and clandestine radio stations in pre- and post-independent Zimbabwe. This dissertation uses two models of message propagation in a limiting information environment: Sturges' …
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Accounting disclosure and information environment : a comparative study of U.S. and Japanese security markets with dynamic modelling
… different firms that are operating in different informational and institutional environments. This study applies the analysis of changes in regression coefficients to a comparative study between the U.S. and Japan. Two aspects of information asymmetry between investors and management are …
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QUANTITATIVE GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF OPEN-SOURCE DATA TO PROVIDE MEASURES OF EFFECTIVENESS OF OPERATIONS IN THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT
Evaluating the effectiveness of U.S. military information operations (IO) remains a complex task for IO professionals. Nevertheless, assessment is an indispensable component of any military operation. This thesis, therefore, seeks to examine the feasibility and practicality of employing data-driven …
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Behavioral explanation for mispricing of IPO's discretionary current accruals and impact of firm's information environment of information asymmetry
… following, and company news relate to the information asymmetry between insiders and outsiders. Corporations' timely disclosures of value relevant information and information collection by outsiders reduce information asymmetry, limiting insiders' ability to trade profitably on private …
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A study of associational culture and the development of Irish nationalism, 1780-1830, with the construction of a software information environment
This research investigates the role of associational culture in the development of Irish nationalism during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Parallel to this historical investigation it examines the use of and implements a digital humanities methodology to research and where …
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Essays on Corporate Governance
… report conflicting evidence regarding the information environment of public family-controlled firms. We use staggered exogenous shocks to the information environment to test whether family control influences corporate disclosure. After an exogenous decrease in the information environment, …
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The Real Effects of Opacity: Evidence from Tax Avoidance
… consequence of an opaque financial reporting information environment: increased corporate tax avoidance. Using an international sample of firms, I find that firms with a more opaque information environment, as measured at both the firm and country level, exhibit higher levels of firm-specific …
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Rethinking the informed citizen in an ago of hybrid media genres : Tanner '88, K-Street, and the fictionalization of news
… citizen" is one who actively reads the "information environment". According to Schudson, however, "the obligation of citizens to know enough to participate intelligently in governmental affairs [should] be understood as a monitorial obligation" where one scans rather than reads the …
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Passive Institutional Ownership, Firm Disclosure, and Post-earnings Announcement Drift
… Passive institutional investors favor more information to minimize monitoring and trading costs. However, passive institutions' diverse holdings make it costly to collect individual firms' private information, so they demand more public information. Managers are likely to supply more firm …
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Effect of information in Bayesian congestion games
… routing in a general single o-d network and information structure induced by any two heterogeneous information systems. To model the asymmetric information environment, we formulate a Bayesian congestion game, where travelers subscribing to one information system is seen as one population. We …
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Competencies required by South African, entry-level, library and information science graduates
… by the South African, entry-level library and information science graduate. It took into account the development of the information society and resultant proliferation of information and communication technologies and how these developments have given rise to new roles for the library and …
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Characteristics of business incubators influencing collaboration among member startup firms
… interview participants represented and provided information on 89 co-founders of the firms. Findings show that business incubators' social, physical, and informational characteristics, namely corporate membership, space configuration, informal and formal networking, industry focus, information …
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