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Measuring New Venture Legitimacy: A Multi‐dimensional Approach Using Computational Textual Analysis

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Legitimacy is critical for the growth, survival and performance of ventures, yet efforts to measure legitimacy empirically typically focus on a single dimension of this multi‐dimensional construct. In this article, we develop a multi‐dimensional framework for measuring legitimacy using computational text analysis.
Ali Ghods, Antonin Ricard, Bénédicte Aldebert, Eric W. Schoon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Estimation to Discrimination: Algorithmic Bias, Predictive Uncertainty, and Anti‐Discrimination Law

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Machine learning (ML) systems, increasingly deployed in high‐stakes decision‐making, inherently produce uncertain outputs that can lead to unlawful discrimination. This article provides the first legal analysis of how predictive uncertainty in ML systems interacts with UK anti‐discrimination law under the Equality Act 2010.
Holli Sargeant
wiley   +1 more source

‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Intra‐Seasonal Crop Management and the Potential Benefit of Seasonal Precipitation Forecasts: Farm‐Level Embedded Risk Analysis in Ethiopia

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How large is the potential benefit for farmers from obtaining forecasts of total rainfall in the upcoming season? This critically depends on the local farm system and the crop management actions available to farmers to respond to the forecasts issued. Studies assessing the financial value of seasonal precipitation forecasts have so far focused
Christian Troost, Samuel Elias Kayamo, Livia Rasche, Thomas Berger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trend forecasting of main groups of causes-of-death in Iran using the Lee-Carter model. [PDF]

Med J Islam Repub Iran, 2018
Jahangiri K, Aghamohamadi S, Khosravi A, Kazemi E.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Now You See Them, Now You Don't: Understanding New Hire Ghosting and Its Antecedents

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT New hire ghosting, in which applicants accept an offer and then quit before their first day without notice, is an emerging and consequential staffing phenomenon. Drawing on job embeddedness theory, we conceptualize new hire ghosting as a form of pre‐entry withdrawal influenced by dispositional risk and the fragile fit, links, and sacrifice ...
Andrew B. Speer, Jay H. Hardy III, Carter Gibson, Chris Frost, Qurie Hong   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis and Forecasting the Accident Mortality Trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran Applying Lee-Carter Model During the Years 2006 to 2035. [PDF]

Bull Emerg Trauma, 2018
Aghamohamadi S, Jahangiri K, Kavousi A, Sayah Mofazali A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Life Table Prediction Using the Lee-Carter Model

Journal of Actuarial, Finance, and Risk Management
<span lang="EN-US">Mortality is the state where all signs of life permanently, which can occur at any time after a person is born. Mortality data can be presented in the form of table called a mortality table, which is a table that provides an overview of the life of a population group starting from births at the same time and life of a ...
Putu Zeni Candrika Kertayanda, Tiara Yulita, Dila Tirta Julianty, Annastasya Ginting, Mei Nalda Adelia Simanjuntak   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

When Accounting Qualities Collide: Accruals Quality, Comparability and Information Risk in SEO Underpricing

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine how accounting quality attributes jointly mitigate underpricing associated with two dimensions of information risk in seasoned equity offerings (SEOs). In information environments with relatively more potent information asymmetry, the evidence suggests that accruals quality and accounting comparability act as substitutes; i.e ...
Adam Bordeman, Philip B. Shane, David B. Smith, Suning Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source