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Contemporary Social Sciences, 2020 As the aging population continues to grow in China the issue of intergenerational equity in the field of old-age security has become increasingly prominent.
Wang Jue
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Equity retention and social network theory in equity crowdfunding
Small Business Economics, 2015 After comparing the regulation and development of equity crowdfunding around the world, this paper investigates the signaling role played toward crowdfunders by equity retention and social capital. Using a sample of 271 projects listed on the UK platforms Crowdcube and Seedrs in the period 2011-2014, we find that campaigns launched by entrepreneurs who
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Pecking at Pecking Order Theory: Evidence from Pakistan’s Non-financial Sector [PDF]
Journal of Competitiveness, 2012 This study tests the Pecking Order Theory for the capital structure of listed firms in Pakistan. As per Pecking Order Theory in capital structure formulation, internally generated resources would have first priority, followed by debt issuance where ...
Sheikh Jibran +3 more
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Equity Implications in Evaluating Development Aid: The Italian Case
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2020 Background: In the field of development aid, social equity is an emerging issue that concerns the evaluation community in its theoretical and practical dimensions. Purpose: A widely held belief is that evaluators do not apply theory. In this paper, we
Marina Forestieri
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An Empirical Study on Market Timing Theory of Capital Structure
International Research Journal of Business Studies, 2011 The theory of capital structure has advanced remarkably. This development began as many firms had options to consider various external factors determining the composition of debt and equity.
Ignatius Rony Setyawan
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Journal of Finance and Data Science, 2018 Investors in financial markets are often at a loss when facing a huge range of products. For financial institutions also, how to recommend products to the right investors, especially those without previous investment records is problematic. In this paper,
Li Zhang, Han Zhang, SuMin Hao
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The Great Equity Evasion: The Society for Human Resource Management’s Discomfort with Diversity’s Fair Share, an Issue in the Workplace [PDF]
Business Ethics and LeadershipThe Society for Human Resource Management recently decided to remove "equity" from the diversity, equity, and inclusion framework, sparking substantial debate within the human resources community. This research examines the consequences of this decision,
Stacey L. Morin, Darrell Norman Burrell
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, 1995 Identifies the specific rules and principles by which societies allocate common property and collective burdens among qualifying parties by examining the methods that people use to solve "everyday" distributive problems. Explores on how societies solve the distributive problems arising in seven illustrative cases: the demobilization of soldiers from ...
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Advancing equity via research-practice partnerships: a theory of action for equity-centered RPPs
Frontiers in EducationIntroductionResearch-practice partnerships (RPPs) are posited as a vehicle to improve the use of research evidence. Equity-centered RPPs are an evolving subset of RPPs loosely bound by equity principles and varying in partnership design and approaches ...
Richard O. Welsh, Kathryn James McGraw
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Societal foundations for explaining fertility: Gender equity
Demographic Research, 2013 BACKGROUND Gender equity theory in relation to fertility argues that very low fertility is the result of incoherence in the levels of gender equity in individually-oriented social institutions and family-oriented social institutions.
Peter McDonald
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