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Signaling strategic commitment for organizational transition: how to manage potential M&As through voluntary disclosures

, 2012
To ‘transit or not’ often depends upon winning over investor opinion to large strategic initiatives. M&A is one such major realignment of an organization and yet once a bid for a company has been announced there is a period of uncertainty when the bid ...
Ahn, Kwangwon, Angwin, Duncan, Meadows, Maureen, Yakis-Douglas, Basak   +3 more
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Toughening β‐Ga2O3 via Mechanically Seeded Dislocations

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
β‐Ga2O3 is promising for next‐generation semiconductors but its brittleness limits flexible and high‐precision applications. Here, mechanically seeded dislocations introduced by surface deformation improved damage tolerance in (001) β‐Ga2O3. Nanoindentation and characterization show dislocations suppress cleavage cracks by enabling stable plastic ...
Zanlin Cheng, Jiawen Zhang, Peng Gao, Guosong Zeng, Xufei Fang, Wenjun Lu   +5 more
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Influence of Leasing Company Image on the Leasing Package Sales [PDF]

The goal of the paper is to analyze the influence of leasing company image on the volume of sales of leasing service. The paper points to the significance of a company image in modern business, where image gains an extreme significance in buyer’s final ...
Sasa Vujic, Slobodan Vujic
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Rolling and Impacting Caustic Drops on Super Liquid‐Repellent Surfaces: In Situ Force and Energy Monitoring of Surface Degradation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The use of continuous drop‐based force and energy probing methods is introduced to evaluate in situ chemical degradation of super liquid‐repellent surfaces by caustic liquids. By tracking the velocity of rolling drops and energy dissipation of impacting drops, degradation dynamics are resolved under high spatio‐temporal precision. Using this technique,
Parham Koochak, Kai Liu, William S. Y. Wong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Founder characteristics of high-growth companies

, 2018
Today, many international economies are confronted with a new phenomenon of high-growth firms: unicorns. Those unicorn companies were able to perform outstanding growth rates and company valuations during the last years. For many of them, growth is the only way to success and therefore of huge strategic importance in order to survive. However, although
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Determinants of Privatization Prices [PDF]

Generating government revenue is a common objective in privatization. This paper asks: what determines privatization prices? Pursuing this query helps resolve the current controversies about the bearing of speed and the role for government actions prior ...
Florencio Lopez-de-Silane
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Two‐Way Shape Memory Alloy and Polymer Composite Hybrid Smart Actuator With High Speed, Accuracy, and Reversible Deformation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Tailored thermo‐mechanical properties of shape memory polymer composites enable large reversible deformation as well as high actuation speed. Moreover, a structural design with curvature in the transverse direction achieves sub‐second actuation on heating and a larger recovery ratio on cooling. Finally, these newly developed smart two‐way actuators can
Dajeong Kang, Seong Yeon Park, Yitro Samuel Aditya, Ha Eun Lee, Wonvin Kim, Sangyoon Bae, Seong Su Kim   +6 more
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WHICH ARE THE FACTORS INFLUENCING FINANCING DECISIONS IN SMEs? [PDF]

In this paper I review the literature in search of the factors that influence financing decisions in SMEs. Financial theories suggest that the only goal of a company is value maximization, but empirical studies have shown that small companies’ owners can
Flavia-Diana NISTOR
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Novel Functional Materials via 3D Printing by Vat Photopolymerization

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Perspective systematically analyzes strategies for incorporating functionalities into 3D‐printed materials via Vat Photopolymerization (VP). It explores the spectrum of achievable functionalities in recently reported novel materials—such as conductive, energy‐storing, biodegradable, stimuli‐responsive, self‐healing, shape‐memory, biomaterials, and
Sergey S. Nechausov, Patrick Fesser, Boris A. Bulgakov, Ulrich S. Schubert   +3 more
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Dual‐Site Ru Single‐Atoms and RuP Nanoclusters on N, P, and B Co‐Doped Porous Carbon for Efficient Alkaline HER and AEM Water Electrolysis

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ru single atoms and RuP nanoclusters are co‐anchored in N, P, and B co‐doped porous carbon nanospheres via in situ carbonization/phosphidation of a boronate polymer precursor. RuP activates water, while nearby Ru single atoms accelerate H2 formation through H* transfer. The catalyst delivers low overpotential and high durability in alkaline HER and AEM
Xiaohong Wang, Juguo Dai, Dongxu Li, Jianghua Wu, Hucheng Fu, Yiting Xu, Xueqiang Qi, Qian Xue, Yanbin Shen, Xiaoqing Pan, Conghui Yuan, Shuifen Xie, Andreu Cabot, Lizong Dai   +13 more
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