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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on qualitative data among a sample of people leaving prison in Aotearoa New Zealand, this article explores how post‐prison transitional housing impacts desistance from crime and motivation to desist. While transitional housing is designed to support reintegration, our findings reveal that it can also produce unintended impacts—or ...
Alice Mills +2 more
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Ibis, EarlyView.Free‐living birds need to acquire enough food to fulfil their energetic needs, which may require more effort in habitats with less favourable conditions. Therefore, to maintain their necessary energy intake, birds need to adjust their foraging behaviour in response to varying habitat conditions.
Renée Veenstra +5 more
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Ibis, EarlyView.Non‐native species are one of the greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide due to their direct and indirect effects on native communities. There are two opposing hypotheses to explain how non‐native species successfully establish outside their native range.
Fabio Marcolin +7 more
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International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.Abstract The present article presents an integrative review related to stewardship in all the business and management disciplines, from its initial development in 1980 to the present. Specifically, we applied a latent Dirichlet allocation‐based topic modelling analysis to almost 1200 articles, seeking to creatively synthesize the concept of stewardship
Debora Casoli +3 more
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The Pecking Order Theory: Evidence from Malaysia [PDF]
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. This study examines whether the Malaysian listed companies follow a pecking order
Poon, Wei Leng
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Capital structure strategies through the lens of ESG: assessing trends between Brazil and China
Revista Ambiente ContábilObjective: This paper aims to analyze, in a comparative way, whether the adoption of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) practices by Brazilian and Chinese companies influences the choice of a capital structure in accordance with the ...
Daniela Cristina de Andrade +3 more
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A REVIEW OF THE CAPITAL STRUCTURE THEORIES [PDF]
In this paper the authors survey capital structure theories, from the start-up point, which is considered Modigliani and Miller’s capital structure irrelevance theorem, to recent theories, such as the pecking order and the market timing theory.
Visinescu Sorin, Popescu Luigi
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The Pecking Order Theory: Evidence from Listed Firms in Nigeria
International Finance and Banking, 2015 Pecking order theory of capital structure demonstrates how managers could reduce inefficiency in the presence of information asymmetry in the source of finance. This study aims at a critical evaluation of the relevance of pecking order theory to firms, using the panel data of the listed firms on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
Felix Babatunde Dada, Ben Ukaegbu
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Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract We used an ecological niche theory framework integrating physiological and behavioural ecology to understand interspecific differentiation of juveniles of four Antarctic fishes: Trematomus bernacchii, Trematomus pennellii, Trematomus nicolai and Pagothenia borchgrevinki.
Amanda J. Frazier +5 more
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Information Transparency and Corporate Financing Decision： Testing the Pecking Order Theory
, 2012 [[abstract]]"This research is mainly to study the impact of corporate information transparency on corporate financing decision. The “information disclosure and transparency ranking” survey results by the Securities and Futures Institute (SFI) were ...
王癸元;Wang, Kuei-Yuan
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