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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"private ownership"”.
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Who makes the game? Examining private ownership in professional sports
… this dissertation is a critical examination of private team ownership in the major North American professional sports leagues. Despite drawbacks that are apparent to players, fans, media, and scholars, private ownership has been taken for granted as the natural way of organizing professional …
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Media coverage, industrial policy, and safety : explaining shifting state and Private ownership in China's coal-mining industry
… of large-scale, expropriatory nationalization of private coal mines to investigate the puzzle of uneven policy implementation in China. It casts new light on the role media coverage and public opinion play in the Chinese policy process, on the party-state's disciplinary (wenze) practices, and on …
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The Place of Private Property in Land Use Law: A Relational Examination of Ontario's Quarry Conflicts
… and the more-than-human world to uphold the ownership model of property relations and to privilege particular forms of land use. Through documentary and interview-based qualitative research, it presents an eco-relational examination of one of the most contentious land uses in Ontario …
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Ownership, efficiency and the modern enterprise : a theoretical perspective
In this dissertation, public and private ownership is compared on the basis of allocative and productive efficiency. At the outset, it is shown how the traditional advantage of owner-managed private firms over their public counterparts in respect of productive efficiency is weakened by the presence …
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The Western Front in the Backyard: The archaeological survey of Camp Howze, Texas
… property has changed since it reverted back to private ownership, and to analyze how future archaeologists can determine the location of a World War II era temporary military compound.
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Environmental economics: An Austrian approach
… capital and consumer environmental goods must be privately owned and freely exchanged to generate market prices that are used to determine whether capital is being maintained and whether production satisfies consumer demand. Political control wastes resources and causes conflicts. Prior …
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Impacts of adjacent land use on Blue Ridge Parkway costs
… higher in areas with a greater percentage of private ownership.
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We have lost one another
… reparation, redevelopment, commodification and private ownership. This project aims to explore the possibilities of using visual art methodology as a mediator between its people and its land through the praxis of Socially-engaged Art and in dialogue with the philosophies of New Materialism and …
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Determining the Financial Feasibility of a Wood Products Industrial Park
… in Southwest Virginia. The case study assumed private ownership and found that the best mix of park tenants included: an edge-glued dimension panel manufacturer, a solid dimension lumber manufacturer, a custom millwork manufacturer, and a pallet manufacturer. Primary manufacturing and marketing …
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The Efficacy of the Regulatory Authorities in Dispute Resolution in Telecommunication Industry in Tanzania, The Case Study Of Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority
… by SAP’s and the move from state monopoly to private ownership of telecommunication industry and free market economy has brought a feeling of ownership and protection of interests. This has increased disputes tremendously. Although the Government has set mechanism for dispute settlement, there …
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A Political Ecology of Copper Production and Environmental Degradation In Zambia
… nation's copper production was initially under private ownership in the colonial era; Post Independence, nationalization of copper production was initiated with various environmental protection initiatives introduced; nonetheless, copper ownership reverted into private hands during the movement …
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Textual curators and writing machines: authorial agency in encyclopedias, print to digital.
… is not new, and neither is the idea that private ownership might not apply to such documents. More than 275 years ago, in the preface to the 1728 edition of his Cyclopædia, Ephraim Chambers mused on the intensely collaborative nature of the volumes he was about to publish. His thoughts …
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Baseline determination : an examination with special reference to the low-water mark
… commune in its entirety was not susceptible to private ownership, it was nevertheless possible to acquire ownership of a specific portion thereof, 3 (e.g. by fishing).
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On the performance of public enterprises: the choice of price and productive factors
… the public enterprise sector competes with the private sector for the limited resources, it becomes paramount to evaluate the effects of undertaking the productive activity under public ownership as opposed to private ownership. The scope of this dissertation is the economic efficiency of public …
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Spatial and Temporal Land Use Change in Southern Illinois' Clear Springs and Bald Knob Wilderness Areas
… Results indicate that land use change and land ownership have varied both spatially and temporally. First, land ownership transfers were influenced by land costs, availability of funds and topography. Lower land costs resulted in increased land transfers. Bottomlands remained in private …
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Dead Men Tell No Tales: How Can Creative Approaches to Communication Keep Historic Sites From Going Silent
… to date of a house museum shifting back to private ownership took place in December, 2006, when Colonial Williamsburg announced its intention to sell Carter's Grove plantation (built from 1750-1755), once considered a "must see" tourist destination. A spokesperson for Colonial Williamsburg …
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Productivity of A Resident Giant Canada Goose Flock in Northeastern South Dakota
… in 1975. The relationship between public versus private ownership of land and nest success was significant(X2 6.030, P<.05, 1 d.f.) in 1974 but not significant in 1975. Discriminant analysis of 18 factors associated with nesting indicated that water depth, number of nests on wetland and density …
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The Klamath's Path after Termination
… trust relationship. The federal, rather than private, ownership of the Klamaths’ former land offered the Klamaths a land-base on which they could practice their treaty rights and assert their sovereignty in the management of that land during the self-determination era. This study delves into …
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The Klamath's Path after Termination
… trust relationship. The federal, rather than private, ownership of the Klamaths’ former land offered the Klamaths a land-base on which they could practice their treaty rights and assert their sovereignty in the management of that land during the self-determination era. This study delves into …
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Profit sharing in the South Metropolitan Gas Company, 1889-1920
… its base so as to meet criticisms concerning the private ownership of a public utility. This thesis will argue that George Livesey's concern with the conflicts of society as he saw them led him to use the mechanism of the sliding scale, originally concerned with gas pricing, to build what he saw …
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