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CEO's Early‐life Experience of Disasters and Corporate Environmental Performance

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
We investigate the nexus between the early‐life disaster experiences of chief executive officers (CEOs) and their firms’ environmental performance metrics. We hypothesize that first‐hand experience of the adversities of natural disasters in the formative years of a CEO can catalyze a transformation in their environmental cognizance and perspective ...
Shushu Liao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

EOCLASSICAL TRENDS OF THE SONATA IN C FOR SOLO ACCORDION BY ERNST-LOTHAR VON KNORR [PDF]

open access: yesStudiul Artelor şi Culturologie: Istorie, Teorie, Practică, 2017
This article presents an analysis of the Sonata in C for solo accordion written by the German composer Ernst-Lothar von Knorr and it is dedicated to the accordion producer Ernst Hohner. This musical composition was written in 1949.
CALMÎȘ DUMITRU
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Grażyna Bacewicz – The Polish Sappho

open access: yesMusicology Today, 2019
The paper is an attempt at a synthetic presentation of the Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz’s (1909–1969) musical output and artistic career, presented against the background of events in her personal life, and of major events in Polish and European ...
Gąsiorowska Małgorzata
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Garland motif in the Ottoman Empire palace fabrics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Ponència presentada a: Session 9: Forma urbana y relaciones entre historia y proyecto: el medio ambiente como patrimonio / Urban form and relationships between design and history: environmental heritage, arquitecture and ...
Yurt, Dilek   +2 more
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Does Continuous Disclosure Improve Investment Efficiency? Evidence from a Unique Regulatory Setting

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
We examine the association between continuous disclosure and investment efficiency within the context of Australia's unique regulatory setting for continuous disclosure. Based on 8,527 firm‐year observations, we find that continuous disclosure is positively associated with investment efficiency and helps to mitigate both over‐investment and under ...
Sudipta Bose   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cast Contemporaries: artists respond to the completion of the Cast Collection Project at Edinburgh College of Art [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Cast Contemporaries is an exhibition that explores contrasting responses to the fate of plaster cast collections in art schools. Many contemporary artists question the relevance of preserving reproductions of antique sculptures, anatomical figures and ...
Dorsett, Chris, Stewart, Margaret
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Private Land Ownership: Tax or Socialize?

open access: yesThe American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study compares the land reform concepts of Henry George and Silvio Gesell, both of whom rejected private appropriation of land rent as unjust. While George proposed to “hollow out” private land ownership through a comprehensive land value tax, Gesell aimed at full socialization of land combined with lease auctions and compensation of ...
Dirk Loehr
wiley   +1 more source

Theories of Interest and Their Relation to the Gesell–Keynes Theory

open access: yesThe American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We consider theories of interest as they relate to what we will call the Gesell‐Keynes (GK) theory which is essentially a real theory of capital accumulation with a monetary constraint that arises because of a liquidity return on holding money.
Ahmed Anwar
wiley   +1 more source

A window to Europe: synthesis of "the western" and "the eastern" in the architecture of Alexandria in the first half of the 20th century

open access: yesАрхитектон
The article deals with the architectural environment of Alexandria that existed during the period of European presence in Egypt. The historical prerequisites that led to the cultural dialog between the West and the East in the architectural space of the ...
Lisitsyna Alexandra V.
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