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Do Political Connections Influence Investment Efficiency in Russian Companies?
The question as to whether political influence can benefit the commercial activity of companies, and the related questions surrounding political corruption that arise, are of perennial fascination for persons at every level of society and in every ...
Victoria Cherkasova, Anna Ivanova
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CEO facial trustworthiness and corporate governance
In this paper the authors aim to argue that the existence of a strong corporate governance mechanism (a formal credibility-enhancing mechanism) and the presence of a more trustworthy-looking CEO (an informal credibility-enhancing mechanism) are ...
Wenjie Bi +3 more
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Monitoring agency conflicts: use of accounting and direct supervision
Agency theory predicts that agents tend to have more information regarding their own talents and efforts than their principals. This information asymmetry enables chief executive officers (CEOs) to “shirk” or engage in actions that benefit themselves at ...
Tao Sun, Yu Zhang, Eric Rosano
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Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells
Almond shells, an abundant agricultural by‐product, are repurposed to create a fully bioderived almond shell/chitosan composite (ASC) degradable in soil. ASC is converted into laser‐induced graphene (LIG) by laser scribing and proposed as a substrate for transient electronics.
Yulia Steksova +9 more
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Do monitoring agents strengthen the impact of founder and family boards on firm performance?
Research aims: This research aims to test the moderating effect of monitoring agents on the effect of the founder-board of directors (founder-BOD) and family-board of directors (family-BOD) on firm performance.
Meiliana Suparman +3 more
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A single‐step laser annealing strategy is presented for dual‐gate a‐IGZO TFTs. The steep thermal gradient induces graded oxygen doping in the channel and simultaneous WOx removal at the contacts, enabling concurrent interface and contact engineering.
Sihyeon Kwon +9 more
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Purpose: In Indonesia, the CEO's educational background is considered the appropriate indicator of how the policy is grounded in interests and reasoning.
Refina Dwike Wahono +2 more
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Ionic Gating of Liquid‐Crystal‐Like Pteridine Assemblies Enables Tunable Light Scattering
Tunable optical properties emerge through developmentally regulated ionic gating, which transforms disordered, ultraviolet (UV)‐absorbing organelles into concentrically ordered, liquid‐crystal‐like light scatterers. By integrating analyses of pteridine composition, potassium‐dependent assembly, hierarchical ultrastructure, and optical behavior, the ...
Sourabh Bera +22 more
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How the type of ownership affects capital budgeting practice in the Serbian agribusiness industry? [PDF]
The subject of the research is capital budgeting practices in Serbian agribusiness companies. The research aim is to determine whether there are differences in decision-making regarding capital budgeting depending on the ownership structure in those ...
Barjaktarović Lidija +2 more
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During times of distress, companies are compelled to reassess operational policies and reengineer strategic formulations to discern value maximising uses for limited resources.
Navitha Singh Sewpersadh
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