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What About BOEM? The Need to Reform the Regulations Governing Offshore Oil and Gas Planning and Leasing [PDF]

, 2014
The nature of offshore oil and gas activities is changing as companies are forced into difficult and remote areas, including the U.S. Arctic Ocean.
Clements, Maggie, Hartsig, Andrew, LeVine, Michael   +2 more
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FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

The valuation tool user guide: monetizing Cradle to Cradle® [PDF]

, 2014
This User Guide outlines the object, scope and expected deliverables from the Valuation Tool component of the Cradle to Cradle ® C2C BIZZ project. It describes the compendium of subtools that have been developed comprising: i) overview of funding tools ...
Ankrah, NA, Baffour-Awuah, K, Hammond, F, Hingorani, N, Manu, E, Wood, P   +5 more
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Management-Employee Buyouts in Hungary and Poland [PDF]

This paper is part of a project whic began in December 1994 and consists of research focusing on legal and institutional aspects of privatization as well as the courses and outcomes of privatization processes under way in the countries of Central and ...
Dorottya Boda, Judit Karsai, Laszlo Neumann, Richard Woodward   +3 more
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CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AS URBAN DEVELOPERS: The Tale of Two Innovation Complexes in Nanjing, China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Chinese universities are important but undertheorized players in the production of urban built environments. Most work focuses on purpose‐built university towns, neglecting the redevelopment of underutilized downtown campuses. Therefore, this article considers how two publicly funded universities in Nanjing attempted to establish ‘innovation ...
Hao Chen, Yunpeng Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source

Marginal Tax Rates of Canadian Public Firms and the Applicability of Marginal Tax Rates in Corporate Decisions*

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While several US studies demonstrate the importance of using marginal tax rates (MTRs) to study corporate decisions and tax incentives, research using MTR in the Canadian setting is limited. The MTR literature has made several improvements on the estimation process using US firms, but these advances have not been made available for Canadian ...
Khin Phyo Hlaing, Bin (Betty) Xing
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence About Discipline Committees and Professional Misconduct of Auditors*,‡

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Self‐regulating professions establish professional discipline processes to determine whether members' behavior falls short of expectations outlined in their respective codes of conduct and to determine appropriate sanctions when necessary. From an auditing perspective, audit quality is of primary interest to audit researchers, yet few prior ...
Devan Mescall, Regan N. Schmidt, Michael J. Wynes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source