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Enterprise ownership, workplace culture, and smoking cessation difficulty in China: A cross-sectional data analysis. [PDF]

Tob Induc Dis
Wang G, Du K.
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Managerial ownership and urban water utilities efficiency in Uganda [PDF]

This paper assesses the impact of the early 1980s neoliberalistic reform strategies in urban water distribution in developing countries. It examines in particular, the technical efficiency of two heterogeneous urban water utility-groups in Uganda ...
Mbuvi, Dorcas, Tarsim, Achraf
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Ownership and High-Growth Firms [PDF]

Empirical studies demonstrate that most net job-growth originates from a small number of high-growth firms (HGFs). The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether firm ownership – family, or private non-family – matters for being a HGF, using data ...
Johansson, Dan, Bjuggren, Carl Magnus, Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov   +2 more
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University strategy in transnational higher education: The strategic approaches of newly established and ‘small’ international branch campuses

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Private Equity Ownership in Hospice Care: A Systematic Review (2012-2026). [PDF]

Am J Hosp Palliat Care
Quigley DD, Walsh S, Kassner CT, Dhingra L, Dick AW.   +4 more
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Ownership versus Environment: Why are Public Sector Firms Inefficient? [PDF]

In this paper we disentangle the sources of public sector inefficiency using 1982-1995 panel data on manufacturing firms in Indonesia. We consider two leading hypotheses: (1) public sector enterprises are inefficient due to monitoring problems and (2 ...
Ann P. Bartel, Ann E. Harrison
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Single‐subject designs in character education: Methods for rigorous, contextual, and practitioner‐led research

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Character education research is often constrained by blunt methodological tools. Surveys capture breadth without depth; case studies offer richness but lack replicability; and randomised controlled trials (RCTs), though indispensable at the policy level, are costly, disruptive and ill‐suited to everyday practice with individual pupils.
Shane McLoughlin
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the Potential Protective Effect of Dog Ownership on Incident Disabling Dementia and Its Cost-Effectiveness. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health
Taniguchi Y, Saito Y, Seino S, Hata T, Mori H, Kobayasi E.   +5 more
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2007: A Canadian Corporate Ownership Survey [PDF]

This study documents a decline in the levels of corporate ownership concentration between 1996 and 2007. When compared to previous studies, the incidence of ownership stakes of 20% or larger has decreased form 60% to 41% of the total population of ...
Calin Valsan
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