The key research aim of this paper is to analyze whether an activist investor’s recommendations for financial, corporate governance, and strategic management performances were successful or not. This updates the initial case study investor, Barington Capital Group, in analyzing performance a public company, L Brands, which had lost $20 billion market capitalization last three years prior letter...

One important factor that determines the quality of web-based customer service is the ability of a firm’s website to provide individual caring and attention. In this sense, online vendors try to offer varieties of web-based personalization. However, many previous studies show that there is an obvious trade off between personalization and customer privacy. The main objective of this research is,...

Facilitation cascades generated by co-occurring foundation species can enhance the abundance and diversity of associated organisms. However, it remains poorly understood how differences among native and invasive species in their ability to exploit these positive interactions contribute to emergent patterns of community structure and biotic acceptance. On intertidal shorelines in New England, we...

in order to estimate heritability, heterosis, general and specific combining ability and relationships between them in traits of fruit number per plant, days to the first fruit harvest, yield per plant, average fruit weight and rind thickness, seven local populations of iranian melon (‘tashkandi’, ‘khatouni’, ‘garmak’, ‘aran1’, ‘mirpanji’, ‘suski-e-sabz’ and ‘golpaygan’) were crossed using a co...

The aim of this study is analyzing, through a theoretical-model, variables that are related in relevant literature with gifted students' abilities science course. Within context various analyses have been conducted respect to environmental, cognitive and affective which linked ability. In paper, one the quantitative research methods, survey method, has implemented. Data were collected from 997 ...