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Ownership versus Environment: Why are Public Sector Firms Inefficient? [PDF]

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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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Informational and Normative Influence on Conformity in Autism

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This preregistered study examined whether adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show reduced social conformity and whether any such reduction depends on the type of social influence. Social conformity—the tendency to adjust one's judgments to align with those of others—is typically driven by normative (acceptance‐seeking) and ...
Akiko Kobayashi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

2007: A Canadian Corporate Ownership Survey [PDF]

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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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Development of Ownership Structure and its Effect on Performance: Czech Firms from Mass Privatization [PDF]

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This paper works with a broad data sample of Czech voucher-privatized firms during 1996 - 1999. It analyzes the development of ownership structure and consequently its effect on a firm's performance Ownership concentration had been quite high in 1996 and
Evzen Kocenda
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Chlorella vulgaris biorefineries: sustainable biofuels and high‐value carbon capture

open access: yesBiofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract Global reliance on fossil fuels has created urgent economic and environmental challenges, yet large‐scale use of algal biomass remains limited by production costs. Industrial scaling is constrained by inefficient harvesting and the technical challenges of processing recalcitrant cell walls.
Sandyelle Ferreira Alcântara Araújo   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ownership Structure and Firm Performance in Russia: The Case of Blue Chips of the Stock Market

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Based on panel data from 1995 – 1997, the paper focuses on the impact of ownership structure on the performance of Russian non-financial privatized companies that constitute the group of "blue chips" of the country's stock market.
Muravyev, Alexander, Kuznetsov, Pavel
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Managerial ownership and urban water utilities efficiency in Uganda [PDF]

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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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