This paper examines how ownership concentration affects investment performance, and in particular how deviations from the one share-one vote principle affect this ownershipperformance relationship. Using a unique panel from the Nordic countries the so-called incentive and managerial entrenchment effects are isolated. To this end a measure of marginal q is used to evaluate performance. This is a...

This document lists relevant literature for the DSTC Spectrum project on Trust Management in Open Computer Networks. 1 The Concept of Trust

The aggregation states of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) on single A431 human epidermoid carcinoma cells were assessed with two new techniques for determining fluorescence resonance energy transfer: donor photobleaching fluorescence resonance energy transfer (pbFRET) microscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM). Fluorescein-(donor) and rhodamine-(acceptor) labeled...

The research uses the resource-based paradigm and a typology of markets (consisting of consumer, business and governmental markets) to investigate the notion of fit between the firm and its environment and the links of this notion to performance. Based on a sample of 69 firm managers, the results reveal that firms develop resources and capabilities that match the attributes of the market. High-...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2008.07.002 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 631 632 7172; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] ( com (K.A. Lock), [email protected] (T.R Effective organizations need capabilities relevant to their missions and must manage those capabilities efficiently. We anticipate capability is more important in in...

one of the most important concerns in tehran municipal landfill is the production of leachate and its potential for water resources pollution, this study was undertaken to examine feasibility of biological and physico/chemical treating of high-strength landfill leachate that was collected from tehran municipal landfill. average cod of the leachate in aerobic submerged membrane bioreactor is 680...

Much of the evidence on managerial biases in corporate finance focuses CEO and, particular, overconfidence. This singular focus can lead to misattribution as it ignores roles other managers who are responsible for a given outcome. We evaluate influence CFO and C-suite executives compared with CEO. Mirroring widely used Longholder measure overconfidence, we construct Other measures. For financin...