factors on the success of academic reproductive companies with the moderating role of individual characteristics and the mediating role of reproductive company characteristics in the companies of isfahan scientific and research town. this study is practical in purpose and is a descriptive-survey one the from research methodology perspective. the statistical population consists of all companies ...

Parent involvement (PI) in school is associated with more positive academic performance and social competence in children. However, there are inadequacies in current measures of PI and a need for a better understanding of predictors of PI. In this study, measures were obtained from a normative sample of 387 children in kindergarten and first grade from high-risk neighborhoods in 4 different sit...

We investigate the information content and forecast accuracy of 1,793 analyst reports written around 62 spinoffs––a setting in which analysts’ ability to inform investors is potentially very high. We find that analysts pay little attention to subsidiaries about to be spun off even though these subsidiaries constitute a significant part of the parent company operations. Moreover, while the level...

The authors studied and analyzed various concepts and approaches to company value management. They described the advantages and disadvantages of the leading traditional approaches to assessing the value of an enterprise and proposed a model of the dynamics of the company's value, taking into account the ownership structure, explaining the mechanism of the influence of the company's ownership st...

Every single company or institution wants to utilize its resources in the most efficient way. In order to do so they have to be have good structure. The new way to analyze company structure by utilizing existing within company natural social network and example of its usage on Enron company are presented in this paper.

Efforts to automatically extract salient features from rich media documents (audio, video, still images, speech, etc.) have been underway and maturing for the last 15 to 20 years; longer than that if you consider speech recognition research. However, there is still a paucity of real world applications that leverage the technology, and scaling the technology for situations “outside the lab” have...

In one case Charles River Associates has dealt with, the tax authority asserted that a subsidiary is of such strategic importance to the group’s ultimate parent company that the subsidiary’s “stand-alone” credit rating should be adjusted upwards to the parent’s rating due to implicit support. This is despite the fact that an explicit guarantee had not been provided by the parent and despite the...

New entrants very often spin out from established firms and because they set on a course at founding, their learning and capabilities become inextricably linked to their organizational and technological heritage. But while this heritage may provide an initial advantage, it can also generate inertia and resistance to change, unless the new company is able to unlearn some practices from the paren...