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Shareholder Activism: Affliction for Incumbent CEOs?
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study how shareholder activism shapes CEO careers by distinguishing between two competing hypotheses: discipline and reallocation. Employing a control function approach with expected mutual fund fire sales and purchases as exclusion restrictions, we analyze 3799 US campaigns from 2006 to 2018.
Jana P. Fidrmuc +2 more
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Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is one of the most polarizing issues in business and society. Advocates claim that DEI enhances fairness, while critics argue it undermines meritocracy. The problems often stem from the practice of DEI—reducing it to demographic diversity—rather than its principle.
Alex Edmans
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LABOUR, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics since 2000 led to widespread concern that automation would eliminate a massive number of jobs. Frey and Osborne's influential study concluded AI and robots might eliminate nearly half of all US jobs between 2010 and 2030.
Michael J. Handel
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The Limits of Regulatory Capture: Explaining the UK Payment Protection Insurance Mis‐Selling Scandal
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To what extent does regulatory agencies' failure to protect the public from harm result from undue industry influence? We argue that “regulatory capture” is invoked too easily to explain regulatory failure. To re‐examine the relationship between regulatory capture and regulatory failure, we use process‐tracing to study UK regulatory decision ...
Eva Heims
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The World Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a state‐of‐the‐art structural gravity model, we investigate the impact of various (post‐)colonial cocoa trading arrangements on the cocoa trade between developing cocoa producer countries and rich industrial cocoa consumer nations in the time period 1951–1999. We find that in particular the trading arrangements of the European (Economic)
John Brown +2 more
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How many people are employed in South Africa?
South African Journal of Economics, Volume 94, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT The main labour market survey in South Africa is the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) but the General Household Survey (GHS) also measures employment. We show that despite often identical sample designs and questions about employment, the GHS produces higher estimates of total employment from around 2012 than the QLFS, which finds more ...
Andrew Kerr, Amy Thornton, Peris Wachira
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Managerial and Decision Economics, Volume 47, Issue 6, Page 1425-1440, September 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between firm ownership and organizational performance with a focus on heterogeneity in the professionalization of management. Using a comprehensive panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms, the study identifies significant ownership‐ and management model‐related differences in productive efficiency. The
Javier Ortiz, Ana F. Gargallo‐Castel
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Do universal owners behave like universal owners? The emergence of a financial sector norm
American Business Law Journal, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 235-263, Fall 2026.Abstract The past few years have seen a surge in scholarship on universal ownership, systematic stewardship, and system‐level investing. These concepts describe the reality that large diversified owners of capital own a more or less representative slice of the market and therefore must concern themselves with systemic risks to the financial system as a
E. Quigley
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Intercultural Competence Development Through Tourism: A Study of Czech Visitors to France
International Journal of Training and Development, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 270-279, September 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines international travel as a context for informal intercultural learning and the development of intercultural competence, aligning with the broader goals of training and development. Using the Cross‐Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI), this research assesses changes in four dimensions—Emotional Resilience, Flexibility ...
Renata Cuhlova +2 more
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Food Science &Nutrition, Volume 14, Issue 8, August 2026.The synergistic protective effect of rice bran combined with Lactobacillus johnsonii 23 on DSS induced ulcerative colitis in mice: evaluated through clinical, biochemical, histopathological, and molecular biology assays. ABSTRACT Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has emerged as a global health concern.
Le Li +6 more
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