This study explores the determinants of common ownership. Drawing on two explanatory lenses, we suggest an information-based perspective and a competition-based perspective. We theorize empirically test both perspectives at firm, industry, country levels. Based 14,372 observations firms from MSCI All Country World Index for years 2008 to 2017, find evidence supporting levels: Access value priva...

Starting from the fact that perceptions of employees might be related to national culture and our previous finding CSR perception by depends on company ownership, in present research, we aim at investigation relations between employees’ dependence ownership specific context Serbia as a developing post-socialist country. Questionnaire-based research was conducted among public private companies w...

This paper is concerned with the English Court of Appeal's decision in Yearworth v North Bristol NHS Trust that six men had, for the purposes of their claims against the trust, ownership of the sperm they had produced. The case has been discussed by many commentators and most, if not all, of those who have discussed the case have claimed or assumed that the court held that the claimants had pro...

In this paper, we examine basic transportation and land use characteristics from a selection of cities in Africa, China, Latin America, and South Asia. By definition, poorer than their industrialized country counterparts, developing cities are in a stage of rapid dynamism. From a mobility perspective, perhaps the single most influencing factor is motorization – the growth in motor vehicle owner...

BACKGROUND In 2014, a qualitative multi-country research project was launched to study the reasons behind the high use of antibiotics in regions of Southeast Europe by using previously untrained national interviewers (who were engaged in other antibiotic microbial resistance-related investigations) to conduct qualitative interviews with local patients, physicians and pharmacists. Little knowled...

The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has shifted from an emergency response to a sustainable, country-owned response. The process of transition to country ownership is already underway in the Eastern Caribbean; the Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) has advised the region that PEPFAR funding is being redirected away from the Eastern Caribbean toward Caribbean ...

The objective of this study is to assess the effects of home country investor protection and ownership structure on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)–mandated internal control deficiency (ICD) disclosures by foreign firms that are listed on the U.S. stock exchanges (hereafter referred to as cross-listed firms). Our research question is important for two reasons. First, cross-listed firms have become...

BACKGROUND Rabies is a neglected disease despite being responsible for more human deaths than any other zoonosis. A lack of adequate human and dog surveillance, resulting in low prioritization, is often blamed for this paradox. Estimation methods are often employed to describe the rabies burden when surveillance data are not available, however these figures are rarely based on country-specific ...

To estimate the prevalence of toxoplasma antibodies in schoolchildren and their association with clinical and environmental data, antibody titres were measured in 1276 children aged 4 to 18 years attending primary and secondary schools. Environmental and clinical data were obtained by questionnaire. Altogether 12.8% (163/1276) of children had antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii with no difference b...