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Is managerial entrenchment always bad? A CSR approach [PDF]

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In this paper, we argue that managerial entrenchment may be positive when there is excessive external pressure from financial markets. In these situations, managers have more freedom to implement value-enhancing strategies, such those related to ...
Jordi Surroca, Josep A. Tribó
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Alcohol and Other Drug Vocational Education and Training in Australia: Changes in the Landscape From 2011 to 2024

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People impacted by alcohol and other drugs (AOD) are supported across a range of health and social service settings, often by workers in generalist roles who may not have specialist training. Vocational education and training (VET) plays a key role in equipping AOD workers with the knowledge and skills required for practice, yet there is no ...
Kirrilly Thompson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Integrated Multidimensional Framework for Hospital Performance Assessment: Design and Application in Romanian Public Hospitals. [PDF]

open access: yesHealthcare (Basel)
Dobre CE   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Efficiency in banking: theory, practice, and evidence [PDF]

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Great strides have been made in the theory of bank technology in terms of explaining banks’ comparative advantage in producing informationally intensive assets and financial services and in diversifying or offsetting a variety of risks.
Joseph P. Hughes, Loretta J. Mester
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Shadow Infrastructures of Labour: A Case Study of Generative AI Use in Victorian Child Protection Practice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT are rapidly entering workplaces, yet their use in frontline human services remains largely undocumented and weakly regulated. Drawing on an investigation into a child protection worker's informal use of ChatGPT, this article provides insight into how GenAI is already shaping ...
Joel Robert McGregor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for unobservables in production models:management and inefficiency [PDF]

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This paper explores the role of unobserved managerial ability in production and its relationship with technical efficiency. Previous analyses of managerial ability have been based on strong assumptions about its role in production or on the use of ...
William Greene   +2 more
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Optimizing Electrode Design for Functional Activation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell‐Derived Cardiomyocytes

open access: yesAdvanced NanoBiomed Research, EarlyView.
Electrical stimulation of human pluripotent stem cell‐derived cardiomyocytes is systematically investigated as a function of electrode material and configuration. Stimulation efficiency is found to be governed predominantly by electrode geometry, with increased electrode area and proximity to cells enabling more effective pacing.
Gustavo Ramirez‐Calderon   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investment and Internal Finance: Asymmetric Information or Managerial Discretion? [PDF]

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This paper examines the relation between cash-flow availability and investment spending in theNetherlands. In particular, we are interested whether managerial discretion and/or asymmetricinformation drive the positive relation between cash-flow and ...
Degryse, H., Jong, A. de
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