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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"temporal focus"”.
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Temporal Focus and Analyst Scrutiny: Evidence from Earnings Conference Calls
… conference calls, this paper investigates the temporal focus of management presentation during those calls, i.e., the extent to which managers allocate their discussions to future firm prospects relative to past firm performance. I find a negative association between firms' past performance and …
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An intergenerational perspective on routine role succession in organizations
… from literatures in imprinting, engagement, and temporal focus to better understand the process of routine role succession. While separately these theories provide different views related to role succession, taken together they draw attention to components of role succession that have not …
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Meanings on Music in post NYE Mallacoota Firestorm, 2019.
… New Year's Eve, 2019. The inquiry is a temporal spatial field study of a natural disaster's impact on the socio-cultural human sphere as viewed through the autoethnographic scope of a resident citizen musician. The firestorm and post-fire period is viewed as a Critical Event (C.E.) which …
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Meanings on Music in post NYE Mallacoota Firestorm, 2019.
… New Year's Eve, 2019. The inquiry is a temporal spatial field study of a natural disaster's impact on the socio-cultural human sphere as viewed through the autoethnographic scope of a resident citizen musician. The firestorm and post-fire period is viewed as a Critical Event (C.E.) which …
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From Prevention to Protection: Policy, Practice and Pitfalls of Surgical Sterilization in California, 1910–Present
… in California, as well as extending the temporal focus traditionally applied to the state's history of sterilization policy. In particular, important new contributions about disability and the practice of sterilization by substitute consent in the 1970s and 1980s are presented. These …
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Fragmented Landscapes: An Archaeology of Transformations in The Pra River Basin, Southern Ghana
… in southern Ghana through lenses of landscape, temporality, and transformation. Drawing on the Annales school and the writings of Tim Ingold, this study moves away from binary constructions of natural and cultural landscape features toward a more integrated view of the landscape's long human …
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Timber, trade, and transformation: a historical geography of mahogany in Honduras
… historical geography of mahogany in Honduras. Focusing on the north coast, its temporal focus stretches from the mid-eighteenth century through the last years of the nineteenth century. This incorporates the earliest stages of the commercial mahogany trade in Honduras, its decline and …
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Rotten to the Corps: Understanding the Human Rights Consequences of Military Failure Through the Eyes of Russian Prisoners of War
… of war reporting insufficient training. The temporal focus of this study extends from the initial invasion to early fall of 2023, thus spanning several major key phases of the conflict and including prisoners of war from a wide array of military, civic, and ethnic backgrounds. Russian …
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Gender, Power, and Authority in Indigenous Mexico City, 1700-1829
… City? To answer these questions, this study focuses on examining the cultural, gendered, and legal customs of eighteenth-century Mexico City residents, concentrating especially on the 'Indians' (a designation which must be made by the historian after careful analysis, but which was made by …
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An investigation of spatial-temporal diel changes in Loligo reynaudii catch rates in the commercial squid jig fishery of South Africa
… inform the management of this fishery, mainly focussed on surveying at daytime during October-November, on the main fishing grounds between Plettenberg Bay and Port Alfred. However, it has so far remained unclear whether this programme may be improved in terms of spatial-temporal focus, to …
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Planning multisentential English text using communicative acts
… this dissertation details a tripartite theory of focus of attention (discourse focus, temporal focus, and spatial focus) which constrains the planning and linguistic realization of text. To test the integrated theory of communicative acts and tripartite theory of focus of attention, a text …