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Capital structure determinants in South Africa: A quantile regression approach

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2016
Using data on 239 listed South African firms and covering the period 1996-2010, we apply a quantile regression approach to investigate the effect of capital structure determinants on leverage.
Tendai Gwatidzo, Miracle Ntuli, Mthokozisi Mlilo   +2 more
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Electrically Readable Lateral Flow Assay Using Organic Transistors for Diagnostic Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Electrolyte‐gated organic field‐effect transistors (EGOFETs) are integrated with lateral flow (LF) paper fluidics to create a reusable, portable, and low‐cost point‐of‐care (PoC) diagnostic test. The devices are validated for Human Immunoglobulin G detection, achieving high sensitivity (0.1 fm), selectivity, and reproducibility with rapid results in 20–
María Jesús Ortiz‐Aguayo, Carme Martínez‐Domingo, Diego Gutiérrez, Dean Kos, Marta Mas‐Torrent   +4 more
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An integrated entrepreneurial performance model focusing on the importance and proficiency of competencies for start-up and established SMEs

South African Journal of Business Management, 2015
Functional and enterprising competencies were identified in the integrated entrepreneurial performance model and the paper highlights which key skills and which supportive skills should be included in entrepreneurial training models and programmes ...
M. Botha, J. J. van Vuuren, T. Kunene
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Bridging Strategy from Both Business Economics and Design Sciences

Cubic Journal, 2023
Consensus on the impact of design on perfor-mance can be said to be evident at all three levels of decision-making in organizations: strategic, tac-tical, operational (Brunswicker et al. 2019; Gemser & Leenders 2001). This impact broadly assumes the following forms: Design impact for strategy in action and customer experience Design impact for ...
Jörn Bühring, Brigitte Borja de Mozota, Patricia A. Moore   +2 more
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Rare‐Earth Yttrium Doping Advances High‐Performance AgSbTe2 Thermoelectrics

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
Y‐doped AgSbTe2 achieves band and microstructure co‐optimization, with coherent Y‐Ag2Te interfaces enhancing phonon scattering and reducing lattice thermal conductivity to 0.26 W m−1 K−1. Combined with valence‐band broadening and increased carrier concentration, this yields ZT ≈ 2 at 623 K, average ZT = 1.5, and 7.3 % conversion efficiency of a single ...
Lan Li, Xiao‐Lei Shi, Min Zhang, Siqi Liu, Meng Li, Nanhai Li, Tianyi Cao, Boxuan Hu, Qingyi Liu, Raza Moshwan, Mahboobeh Shahbazi, Zhi‐Gang Chen   +11 more
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Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross, Wesley M. Zebrowski, Julia C. D. Valliant   +2 more
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Understanding the influence of wine tourism on digital green technology orientation and the role of internal organizational mechanisms

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The growing emphasis on sustainability-oriented innovation has intensified interest in analyzing how external influences can affect internal strategic orientations and encourage the integration of environmental and digital considerations into ...
Elena Toribio-Gómez, Eduardo Sánchez-García, Javier Martínez-Falcó, Bartolomé Marco-Lajara   +3 more
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Supply chain disruption propagation: A study of South African fast-moving consumer goods food and beverage manufacturers

Acta Commercii, 2022
Orientation: Supply chain disruptions have been the subject of substantial theoretical exploration, resulting from the organisational need to enable understanding and appropriate responses to increasingly frequent and severe disruptive events.
Tristan Ermes, Neil Henderson, Zuni Staude, Wesley Niemann   +3 more
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
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PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIORS IN THE HOUSEHOLD AND HOLIDAY SETTING. AN EXPLORATORY STUDY AMONG BRASOV CITIZENS [PDF]

Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2015
The present paper aims to investigate Brasov citizens’ pro-environmental behavior both in their household and holiday setting. In this sense, we conducted a qualitative research using the in-depth interview method on a 13 respondent sample which ...
ELENA-NICOLETA Untaru, ADINA-NICOLETA Candrea, ANA Ispas, MARCELA Luca   +3 more
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