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CEO‐Board Social Ties and Corporate Tax Avoidance
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines CEO‐board social ties that engage in corporate tax avoidance. We find that an increasing proportion of CEO‐board social ties in a firm is associated with higher levels of tax avoidance. Our results withstand several endogeneity tests, including propensity score matching, entropy balancing and a difference‐in‐differences ...
Chen Chen +3 more
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Keeping Your Home: A Guide to Foreclosure Prevention and Assistance in Prince George's County, MD [PDF]
, 2009 Offers step-by-step guidance on avoiding foreclosure and negotiating with lenders. Explains foreclosure and eviction procedures.
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Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using textual analysis of clients' qualitative corporate risk factor disclosures (RFDs) from firms' 10‐K filings, we investigate how RFDs influence auditors' assessments of client business risk (CBR), as reflected in their pricing and reporting behaviour. We find that auditors charge clients who disclose more extensive RFDs approximately 5%–7%
Sarowar Hossain, Ryan Zihang Peng
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Author Correction: Applying federated learning to combat food fraud in food supply chains. [PDF]
NPJ Sci Food, 2023 Gavai A +9 more
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Whistleblower Protections Under Federal Law: An Overview [PDF]
, 2012 [Excerpt] Legal protections for employees who report illegal misconduct by their employers have increased dramatically since the late 1970s when such protections were first adopted for federal employees in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. Since that
Shimabukuro, Jon O, Whitaker, L. Paige
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Stable Isotope Analysis as a Tool to Prevent Illicit Wildlife Trade of Songbirds in Brazil
Animal Conservation, EarlyView.Feather isotopes provide clear differences between wild and captive songbirds in Brazil. Combining multiple isotopes improved classification accuracy and revealed individuals falsely declared as captive‐bred. These results demonstrate the potential of isotope analysis to detect wildlife laundering in the bird trade.
Luiza Brasileiro +4 more
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Progress and Poverty: Walter Rodney's Legacy
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The conventional view of human progress states that the more humanity makes progress, the less poverty is entrenched. But, global development is currently characterized by a persistent combination of economic progress and growing relative poverty. This endemic inequality has puzzled economists for years.
Franklin Obeng‐Odoom
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Injustice, relational violence, and the foster system
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Political theorists have not paid sustained attention to the foster system or treated it as a political institution. Despite this, scholars and social movement advocates have identified the system as a site of social and political injustice. This paper develops an account of racial, class, and relational injustice in the contemporary US foster
Emma Ebowe
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Moral Systems in the Regulations of Nonprofits: How Value Commitments Matter [PDF]
, 2006 This essay explores how three behavior-shaping systems - legal, market, and moral - influence the fundamental tasks of both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, including organizational goal-setting; motivation of participants; and deterring and ...
Robert C. Clark
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Concerns about the slow progress in gender equality, both globally and within corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, prompt a critical assessment of “gendered CSR,” that is, women's empowerment programs and partnerships driven by the private sector.
Tanja Verena Matheis, Christian Herzig
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