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Testing the Pecking-Order Theory: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies

open access: yes, 2008
The pecking-order theory of capital structure, which predicts that firms prefer internal to external finance, is one of the most influential theories of corporate leverage.
Ni, Jinlan, Yu, Miaomiao
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Selling to buy: Asset sales, acquisition financing, and value creation

open access: yesJournal of Financial Research, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 703-739, Summer 2026.
Abstract In line with increased liquidity offered by asset sales, our findings show that firms selling large assets prior to acquisitions are more likely to use cash as payment method. Additionally, we find that in subsequent cash acquisitions, firms using cash stemming from asset sales experience higher announcement abnormal returns compared to firms ...
Christos Mavrovitis (Mavis)   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marginalized and Protest Masculinities: Conceptualizing Racism for Black Men in Families

open access: yesJournal of Family Theory &Review, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 354-364, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Family contexts are sites to analyze the changing expectations associated with masculinity, revealing the multiple expressions of various types of masculinities. However, research in family and gender studies often uses catchall categorizations to understand complex dynamics that influence families who confront race and racism.
Brandon Alston
wiley   +1 more source

Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors are Reliably Important?

open access: yes
This paper examines the relative importance of many factors in the capital structure decisions of publicly traded American firms from 1950 to 2003.
Goyal, Vidhan K., Frank, Murray Z.
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Blind Spots in Product Design: Utilitarian–Hedonic Choices, Psychological Processes and Retail Strategy Interplay for Visually Impaired Consumers

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT Visually impaired individuals represent a sizable segment of the global population but remain underrepresented in consumer research. Existing literature mainly frames visually impaired consumers (VICs) through a vulnerability lens, focusing on shopping barriers and assistive remedies.
Bruno Veneziano Cornacchioni   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unpacking response inhibition in animals - part 1: a conceptual framework. [PDF]

open access: yesAnim Cogn
Troisi CA   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Old Skool Spinning and Syncing: Memory, Technologies, and Occupational Membership in a DJ Community

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 1807-1836, June 2026.
Abstract We show how technology and its temporal instantiations act as material‐relational mnemonic devices that provide temporal anchors for collective remembering in occupations and form the basis of what we call an 'occupational mnemonic community'.
Hamid Foroughi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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