Aspects of board diversity and audit fees: evidence from an emerging economy
Cogent Business & ManagementThis study examines the impact of board diversity by gender and nationality on audit fees. It also assesses how board diversity moderates the relationship between corporate financial risk and audit fees in the context of recent governance changes in ...
Aref M. Eissa, Yasser Eliwa, Ahmed Diab
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Migrant Workers in the North East of England [PDF]
, 2005 This report is the supplementary report of the 'Organising Migrant Workers in Construction' project. It is a descriptive account of the nationality, location, sector of work and companies of migrant workers living in the North East of England.
Fitzgerald, Ian
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The motivational function of goals in physical activity: a cross-cultural comparison
Frontiers in PsychologyObjectiveThe aim of the study was to show the differences in the dominant motivational function of physical activity (PA) between women and men from Poland (PL), China (CN), Iran (IR), Kazakhstan (KZ), Egypt (EG), Romania (RO), and Italy (IT).MethodsA ...
Zitong Wang +18 more
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Beyond the Myth of Nationality: Analyzing Networks within the European Commission [PDF]
, 2009 The current literature on the European Commission refers to the influence of nationality in the functioning of the Commission and in particular to the reliance on networks based on nationality, failing to give much evidence apart from anecdotes.
Suvarierol, S. (Semin)
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National Dances of The Nutcracker : A Study of Racial, Cultural, and National Depictions in a Classical Ballet [PDF]
, 2018 Character development is a large component of ballet performance that is integrated into each rehearsal process leading up to the show. In this year’s production of The Nutcracker, I danced the role of Chinese Soloist. As I began my character development,
Hunter-Mason, Meredith
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Does diversity in top management teams contribute to organizational performance? The response of IBEX 35 companies [PDF]
, 2019 This study contributes to the spread of theoretical and empirical knowledge regarding the Upper Echelons Theory, considering the training and demographic diversity in the Top Management Team (TMT) as a singular characteristic of each company, in our case
Gaspar-González, Ana Isabel +2 more
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Le marché des citoyennetés : mobilités de naissance et consommation de la nationalité au Brésil
Brésil(s)This article examines transnational childbirth as a strategy for acquiring additional citizenship. Based on a qualitative study of Russian families who choose Brazil for childbirth, we show that this kind of mobility surpasses traditional migratory ...
Svetlana Ruseishvili
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Sick Leave and the Composition of Work Teams [PDF]
In this paper, I analyse the relation between workers’ sick leave and the composition of their work teams with respect to age, job tenure, education, and nationality.
Matthias Weiss
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Permanent Legal Immigration to the United States: Policy Overview [PDF]
, 2018 [Excerpt] Four major principles currently underlie U.S. policy on legal permanent immigration: the reunification of families, the admission of immigrants with needed skills, the protection of refugees and asylees, and the diversity of immigrants by ...
Kandel, William A
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Language Learning Strategy Preferences of Asian EFL Learners [PDF]
Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2016 Responding to the controversies in the results of past studies concerning the effect of nationality/ethnicity on using language learning strategies, this study adopts Oxford’s (1990) strategy inventory for language learning (SILL) to report Iranian male ...
Jalal Kamalizad, Kaveh J. Kalilzadeh
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