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Cost of capital in an international context: Institutional distance, quality, and dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Cost of debt is a key cognitive anchor for managerial decisions and an important determinant of firm profitability. We extend international management research by analyzing the effects of institutional distance, institutional quality, and their dynamics ...
Lindner, Thomas   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Do Institutional Distances Influence South-South Cross-Border Acquisitions?

open access: yesInternext: Revista Eletrônica de Negócios Internacionais, 2019
Different countries have different institutional environments. In this way, multinational companies must deal with the difficulties imposed by the differences between their home environment and that of the country where they are inserted. In this article,
Stephanie Tonn Goulart Moura   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancing online climate change education: distance and conventional university collaboration for a Master's curriculum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
See also a longer version: ‘Expanding Citizen and Practitioner Engagement with the Climate Change Challenge Through Collaborative Masters Curriculum, Open Educational Resources, E-learning Communities and Virtual Mobility’, presented at a conference of ...
Abbott, Dina
core   +2 more sources

The Many Faces of Distance – A Typology of Distance in Management

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Management Issues, 2021
Purpose: Based on the various streams of distance literature in management, a framework is provided to make discourses on distance clear. Design / Method / Approach: After a review of the most relevant distance concepts, a typology with five categories ...
Moritz Martin Botts
doaj  

The Effects of Institutions on Emerging Market Firms’ International Assignment Location Decisions

open access: yesEconomic and Business Review, 2022
We investigate international assignment (IA) location decisions of emerging market firms as determined by the institutional contexts of their home and host countries.
Iris Koleša   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Formal Institutional Distance and cross-border M&A-Contract Ineffectiveness: Moderating Role of Advisory Organizations

open access: yesiRASD Journal of Management, 2022
Advisory organizations on cross-border mergers and acquisition deals performed as advisory governance can fill the distance between the formal institutional environment of host and home economies.
Nadia Hanif   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Distance education in dentistry in Brazil: a critical STROBE-based analysis

open access: yesBrazilian Oral Research, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced dentistry schools (DSs) to adapt their teaching techniques to digital platforms. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate distance classes in the Brazilian DS curriculum.
Paulo Goberlânio de Barros SILVA   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Time is Now to Build a Culture of Wellness in Engineering

open access: yesStudies in Engineering Education, 2021
Prior to the rapid onset of COVID-19, higher education faced a mental health crisis. The COVID-19 outbreak both created and exacerbated stressors for students, with early evidence suggesting that the pandemic has had a significant negative impact on ...
Karin Jensen
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping the UK Webspace: Fifteen Years of British Universities on the Web [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper maps the national UK web presence on the basis of an analysis of the .uk domain from 1996 to 2010. It reviews previous attempts to use web archives to understand national web domains and describes the dataset.
Cowls, Josh   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

The role of institutional quality in the international trade of a Latin American country: evidence from Colombian export performance

open access: yesJournal of Economic Structures, 2021
This paper analyses the relevance of Colombian institutional quality in recent years in terms of the performance of its exports within a framework of trade openness.
Carlos Abreo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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