this study attempts to investigate the impacts of severalcorporate governance mechanisms on two alternative proxies for agencycosts, namely the ratio of total sales to total assets (asset turnover) and theratio of selling, general and administrative expenses to total sales(sg&a;). agency costs, non-executive directors on the board, andinstitutional investors are dependent variables. the analysi...

the objective of this paper is to examine linkages between new public management and the process of globalization. although the linkage of the two subjects has been inadequately considering the literature, one can find strong parallels between them, particularly with respect to the theme of globalization as the victory of economics over politics, and that of the parallel reforms of competition ...

Background: Taxi drivers have the most important role in the public transport services. They are exposed to various harmful agents and occupational hazards. Noise is a harmful occupational factors and hearing loss is its most important effect. Protection of drivers against hearing loss is essential. This study was performed to determine the prevalence of hearing loss among taxi and agency drive...

ilona kickbusch’s thought provoking editorial is criticized in this commentary, partly because she fails to refer to previous critical work on the global conditions and policies that sustain inequality, poverty, poor health and damage to the biosphere and, as a result, she misreads global power and elides consideration of the fundamental historical structures of political and material power tha...

This article contributes a social justice perspective to the ongoing discussions about concepts that inform career guidance theory and practice. Due field’s psychological tradition, practices often adopt highly individualised notions of agency fail grasp contextual factors societal structures from which emerges. In this an alternative approach is offered by repositioning as relational phenomeno...

Dividend policy has long been an issue of interest in the financial literature. To date, a number of studies published on agency costs and dividend policy but most of them are on developed markets, It is well known that the emerging markets are quite different from developed markets in all respects. So, the existing published evidence is of limited relevance in identifying the influence of agen...