Based on panel data from 1995-1997, the research focuses on the impact of ownership structure on the performance of Russian non-financial privatized companies that constitute the group of blue chips of the country’s stock market. Several performance indicators are used: Tobin’s Q, labour productivity and profitability. In particular, the paper analyzes the relationship between company performan...

Human social life is structured by social norms creating both obligations and entitlements. Recent research has found that young children enforce simple obligations against norm violators by protesting. It is not known, however, whether they understand entitlements in the sense that they will actively object to a second party attempting to interfere in something that a third party is entitled t...

Public involvement in management decision making has received increased attention from researchers in recent years. These studies, however, have rarely considered differences in behavior resulting from gains and losses, despite ample evidence that individuals' behavior is not the same across situations. Individuals are often more sensitive to losses than gains, which research suggests is relate...

OBJECTIVES As public concern on possible harmful effects of mobile phone in children has been raised, information of epidemiological characteristics of mobile phone use in children and adolescents will be essential for public health policy. METHODS Using three databases (n=21,693) collected from 2008 to 2011, we examined characteristics of mobile phone ownership and use, and socioeconomic pos...

OBJECTIVES To understand how physician ownership of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) relates to surgery use. DATA SOURCE Using the State Ambulatory Surgery Databases, we identified patients undergoing outpatient surgery for urinary stone disease in Florida (1998-2002). STUDY DESIGN We empirically derived a measure of physician ownership and externally validated it through public data. We e...