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Research as a Respectful Practice: an Exploration of the Practice of Respect in Qualitative Research
Qualitative Research in Education, 2016 This article explores the practice of respect within qualitative research methods. As interpersonal respect plays a significant role in the esteem felt within a relationship, it can also serve to cultivate trust between researchers and their ...
Emmanuel O'Grady
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A Note on Patents and Leniency
Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, 2020 The purpose of this note is to investigate the relationship between patents and market collusion. Specifically, by using game theory tools, it is shown that patents can act as a leniency mechanism, i.e., they can enable firms to leave a cartel without ...
Adam Karbowski
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Economies, 2022 The purpose of this study was to examine the potential for fraudulent financial reporting using the fraud hexagon theory factors such as stimulus (financial target, financial stability, and external pressure), capability (change in director), collusion ...
Tarmizi Achmad +4 more
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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
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Collusive Price Leadership [PDF]
The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1990 The authors study the pattern of pricing in which price changes are first announced by one firm and then matched by its rivals. In their model, this price leadership facilitates collusion under asymmetric information. In equilibrium, the leader earns higher profits than the follower.
Rotemberg, Julio J, Saloner, Garth
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From paradise lost to paradise regained: A compassionate retuning of assessed seminars
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Universities often aim to deliver a curriculum that is both research‐based and develops transferable skills in students, thereby enhancing their competitiveness in the job market. At the same time, evidence indicates that university students experience significant stress owing to the competitive nature of the assessments, an aspect that is ...
Sarah Stephen
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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Maintaining Academic Integrity in Programming: Locality-Sensitive Hashing and Recommendations
Education Sciences, 2023 Not many efficient similarity detectors are employed in practice to maintain academic integrity. Perhaps it is because they lack intuitive reports for investigation, they only have a command line interface, and/or they are not publicly accessible.
Oscar Karnalim
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A Universal and Actionable Measure of Corporate Sustainability for Strategic Decision Making
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Managers require a universal, comparable, and decision‐useful measure of corporate sustainability that can reliably inform business strategy, yet such a tool remains absent in the literature and current practice. This paper introduces a comprehensive and operational metric—grounded in Goertz's Basic Framework for developing social science ...
Mariapia Pazienza +2 more
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Collusion-resistant Worker Selection in Social Crowdsensing Systems [PDF]
Computer and Knowledge Engineering, 2018 The main idea behind social crowdsensing is to leverage social friends as crowdworkers to participate in crowdsensing tasks. A main challenge, however, is the identification and recruitment of well-suited workers. This becomes especially more challenging
Masood Niazi Torshiz, Haleh Amintoosi
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