A large body of scholarship finds a negative relationship between oil abundance and economic growth. The existing empirical evidence on the oil curse, however, does not account for variations in the ownership of oil. This article investigates whether the effect of oil abundance on growth varies with ownership structures. It also investigates whether institutional quality influences the effect o...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine why and when employees hide knowledge. Individuals may tend to hide knowledge when they have strong psychological ownership feelings over knowledge. Therefore, this research builds and tests a theoretical model linking knowledge-based psychological ownership with knowledge hiding via territoriality. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collec...

ownership and freedom are two essential rights and of value to human beings. by contrast to preliminary reviews, the link between these two values is very solid, and they have a reciprocal relation.not only can they serve as the foundation of each other, but also in case of departing this equilibrium, each can have a negative effect on the other. the relationship between the two is the subject ...

The purposeof this studywas to Analyzing factors that effecting on rangeland degradation. Statistical population of this research consisted of whole farmer in Pirtaj district (N= 1600); from that 120 farmer were selected as sample using cluster sampling. The main tool to collect data was a researcher made questionnaire that Content validity of the questionnaire was approved, by a panel of exper...

We analyze the effects of different types and concentration of ownership on performance using a population of firms in a model transition economy (Czech Republic) after mass privatization. Specifications based on first-differences combined with instrumental variables show that contrary to conventional wisdom, the effects of different types of ownership and ownership changes are limited. Concent...

Most ownership systems enforce a tree topology on a program’s heap. The tree topology facilitates many aspects of programming such as thread synchronization, memory management, and program verification. Ownership-based verification techniques leverage the tree topology of an ownership system (and hence the fact that there exists a single owner) to restore sound modular reasoning about invariant...

Adults apply ownership not only to objects but also to ideas. But do people come to apply principles of ownership to ideas because of being taught about intellectual property and copyrights? Here, we investigate whether children apply rules from physical property ownership to ideas. Studies 1a and 1b show that children (6-8 years old) determine ownership of both objects and ideas based on who f...

Emerging evidence is now challenging the view that patients diagnosed with schizophrenia experience a selective deficit in their sense of agency. Additional disturbances seem to exist in their sense of body ownership. However, the factors underlying this disturbance in body ownership remain elusive. Knowledge of these factors, and increased understanding of how body ownership is related to othe...