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Strategic Stake Acquisitions in Rival Firms: Common vs. Cross‐Ownership

The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how a blockholder who controls a firm should acquire a minority stake in a rival: directly, creating common ownership, or indirectly through the controlled firm, creating cross‐ownership. Common ownership generates stronger internalization of competitive externalities and allows the blockholder to capture the resulting gains without ...
Vincenzo Denicolò, Fausto Panunzi
wiley   +1 more source

Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht, Núria Esteve‐Gibert   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Causal Attributions on Fairness Preferences and Generosity in Loss Sharing: An Ultimatum Game Experiment

Metroeconomica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the effects of causal attributions (luck vs. effort), the cause of a loss (proposer vs. responder), and its type (individual vs. joint) on fairness preferences in loss sharing. In a loss ultimatum game with earned endowments (N = 246), players were willing to pay more of the loss if their lack of effort caused it, rather ...
Dikla Elisha, Miki Malul, Mosi Rosenboim, Tali Yavneali   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
wiley   +1 more source

Desiccation tolerance mechanisms in the green lineage and beyond

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Ancient origin and recurrent evolution of desiccation tolerance in the green lineage. Summary Water is essential for life on Earth, yet some plants can survive the near‐complete loss of cellular water, a trait known as desiccation tolerance. Although rare in vegetative tissues of vascular plants, desiccation tolerance is scattered across the plant ...
Jenny Schuster, Robert VanBuren
wiley   +1 more source

Desarrollo embrionario teleológico como evidencia de la primera premisa de la quinta vía

Studium: Filosofía y Teología
La síntesis moderna propone que la evolución es un proceso azaroso, sin direccionalidad ni finalidad. Afirmación que estaría en conflicto con la propuesta teleológica de la quinta vía de santo Tomás de Aquino, quien en su primera premisa plantea la ...
Juan Larraín
doaj   +1 more source

More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

The Intersectional Dynamics of Skill Underutilization: A Case Study of College‐Educated Iranian Migrant Women in California

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are paradoxical and sociological questions surrounding migrants of certain ethno‐national backgrounds—particularly women—whose high levels of education do not consistently translate into employment commensurate with their skills, resulting in what is commonly termed “brain waste.” This study critically examines the role of employer ...
Homa Sadri
wiley   +1 more source

Lubricating Role of Supply Chain Vertical Common Ownership in the Breakthrough of Key Core Technology: Evidence and Policy Implications From China

Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study explores whether and how vertical common ownership along the supply chain plays a lubricating role in key core technology breakthroughs. Using a dataset of Chinese listed companies from 2007 to 2023, we find that vertical common institutional ownership significantly promotes the breakthrough of key core technology.
Jiejin Xia, Tao Xiong, Tanling Tang
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Adaptation and Measurement Properties of the Iranian Version of the Families' Importance in Nursing Care—Nurses Attitudes Questionnaire Based on COSMIN Checklist: A Methodological Study

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Family involvement in nursing care is a key component of patient‐centered care and is associated with improved patient outcomes and satisfaction. However, in Iran, there is a need for a culturally adapted and psychometrically sound instrument to assess nurses' attitudes toward family involvement in care using a standardized ...
Amirmohammad Dahouri, Mina Hosseinzadeh, Mohammad Hassan Sahebihagh, Fereshteh Mostafazadeh Meinag   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source