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Showing 1 to 20 of 9508 for “"institutional"”.
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The institutional family : group music therapy in an institutional setting
… examines the interactions that occur in a daily institutional family context between children who have mental and physical handicaps and their adult group leader. The aim is to investigate what role music therapy might play within an institutional family with persons who have diverse disabilities …
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Dueling markets : capitalizing on the non-institutional and institutional asset arbitrage
… in substantial unmet demand for quality, institutional assets. This thesis examines the pricing and yield arbitrage between institutional and sub-institutional grade assets, as defined by valuation parameters, alongside the feasibility of an investment model to capitalize on the …
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An ethnographic study of institutional work in a creative proto-institutional place
… institutions not yet entrenched - are formed. Institutional work, which explains how social actors try to influence institutions, offers one possible theoretical lens. I systematically reviewed the existing literature from a semantic and thematic perspective. Entering the field, data was …
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The institutional real estate clearinghouse : implications for institutional investment in real estate
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995.
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Essays on Institutional Investors
This dissertation analyzes the role of institutional investors in capital markets. The first essay studies what affect mutual fund decisions on hiring and firing sub-advisors and the ex-post effects. We show that deterioration in mutual fund performance or increase in outflows predicts a higher …
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Three essays on institutional change
… empirically investigate different avenues of institutional change. The introduction opens with a discussion of the topics explored in the three essays and provides an overview of important results from each essay. Essay one is a joint effort with Dr. Andrew Young. In this essay, we examine how …
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Institutional Ownership and Technology Spillovers
… studies investigating the role of both foreign institutional investors and technology spillovers in the global economy. In Chapter 2, we show that foreign institutional ownership (FIO) positively influences risk-taking, and this positive relation is achieved through direct and indirect channels. …
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Institutional controls and brownfield redevelopment
Institutional controls (ICs) are used to reduce risks to human health and environment from exposure to contaminants at Brownfield sites. Regulators approve use of ICs in Brownfield redevelopment with the expectation that ICs will remain effective over the long-term under proper oversight …
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Corporate Governance and Institutional Trading
<p>This dissertation includes two parts. The first part examines the preventive effect of hedge fund activism against corporate policy deviations. Using stock liquidity and mutual fund fire sales as instruments, I find that when the likelihood of hedge fund activism increases, firms respond by …
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Institutional Investors and Asset Prices
… of heterogeneity in the behavior of different institutional investors in financial markets. In particular, I show that (i) institutional investors respond to the incentives generated by their organizational structures, (ii) the strategy a particular institutional investor pursues depends on …
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An Institutional Study of Accounting
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Institutional theory of naive money
In the first chapter, I propose a theoretical framework to elucidate how capital from unsophisticated investors (naive money) is associated with fund performance dynamics. In the framework, when naive money invested in a fund exceeds the ideal amount for the manager's skill, it leads funds to …
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Two essays on institutional investors
… by mutual funds. Consistent with active institutional influence, mutual funds are more likely to vote against management at portfolio firms that make more excess CEO pay or depict other symptoms of poor governance such as bad performance and CEO entrenchment. Both active and passive …
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Examining the institutional work of sustainability reporting managers and sustainability assurance providers: An institutional work perspective
… (2006) typology to understand the forms of institutional work SRMs and SAPs undertake as they perform their roles and how these efforts affect the institutionalisation of sustainability reporting and sustainability assurance. Given the interpretive nature of this research the tenants of …
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Institutional change in the Irish university 2008-2014: an examination through the lens of institutional logics
Institutional change is an important research area in the context of the evolution of the Irish university sector. 2008-2014 was an eventful period in bringing about changes within the sector. Drivers of transformation led by the state during this time arose from two distinct sources; developments …
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Possibilities for Making Institutional Change: An Institutional Critique of Diversity Discourse at a Predominantly White Institution
… how diversity discourse inscribes oppressive institutional structures (slavery, racism, and whiteness), specifically, institutional power, and offer possibilities for making sustainable change. This dissertation is an institutional critique (Porter et al. 2000) that includes Black women's …
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