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Board Attributes, Firm Performance, and the Moderating Role of National Culture: A Meta‐Analysis
Corporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue The impact of board structures on firm performance remains a contentious governance topic with competing theoretical paradigms and inconclusive empirical support. Scholars propose that national culture could reconcile contradictory evidence; yet, argumentation is fragmented and direct tests are rare.
Matthew Farrell +8 more
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Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract ‘I have to share a bathroom’, I had so often murmured, almost with shame, as if I personally had been found unworthy of a bathroom of my own. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952) For a single woman of a certain age, living alone in postwar London, austerity was more than a set of political and economic imperatives.
Charlotte Charteris
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Known Knowns and Known Unknowns: Ambiguity Aversion and Foreign Military Intervention
, 2010 Charles Butcher
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Ambiguity Aversion and Cost-Plus Procurement Contracts. [PDF]
, 2002 This paper presents a positive theory about the contractual form of procurement contracts under cost uncertainty. While the cost of manufacture is uncertain it can be controlled, to an extent depending on the effort exerted by the agent. The effort exerted by the agent is not contractible but causes disutility to the agent.
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Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.Abstract In tropical forests today, hunting for food and income remains largely unsustainable, with adverse implications for biodiversity, ecological services, and human wellbeing. Even though our scientific knowledge of the issue has improved greatly in recent years, the situation on the ground has not. This Perspective presents our opinions and ideas
David S. Wilkie +3 more
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Smooth Ambiguity Aversion and the Continuous-Time Limit
, 2011 Ronald Gindrat, Jean Lefoll
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JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.Summary Defensive medicine refers to diagnostic or therapeutic actions taken primarily to reduce legal liability rather than to benefit the patient. In dermatopathology, defensive practices manifest in frequent immunohistochemical testing, overly cautious report phrasing, and reliance on multidisciplinary tumor boards.
Cornelia Sigrid Lissi Müller +2 more
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What Does it Mean to be a Student? Exploring the Experience of “Studenting” as Referring and Hosting
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract This article follows the “Biestian” concept of “teaching as pointing,” and expands on it by adding the role and perspective of the student in educational interactions or contacts, which are largely underdeveloped or marginalized in Biesta's theory of education.
Haoyu Jin
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Ambiguity aversion and experiential learning: implications for long-term savings decisions
, 2020 Bryan Foltice, Rachel Rogers
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The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We estimate the impact of reductions in poor law expenditure on rural life expectancy and mortality rates in England and Wales following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Given the scale of cuts imposed, our estimates imply 8–10 per cent increases in mortality at ages 1–4 years and 2–4 per cent falls in rural expectation of life at birth.
David Green +3 more
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