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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy
Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Subjective Social Inequalities, Lay Perceptions of Merit and Puzzles of Explanation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite rising socioeconomic inequalities most people see individualised merit as crucial for social success. Drawing on surveys such as the ISSP a wealth of research examines trends in subjective perceptions, the relative importance accorded to merit and non‐merit factors for getting ahead in life and factors which influence lay perceptions ...
Sarah Irwin
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Now You See Them, Now You Don't: Understanding New Hire Ghosting and Its Antecedents
Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New hire ghosting, in which applicants accept an offer and then quit before their first day without notice, is an emerging and consequential staffing phenomenon. Drawing on job embeddedness theory, we conceptualize new hire ghosting as a form of pre‐entry withdrawal influenced by dispositional risk and the fragile fit, links, and sacrifice ...
Andrew B. Speer +4 more
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Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Attribution scholarship has sought to gain insights into employees' human resource attributions, or beliefs about managerial motives, to explain workplace behaviours. Yet this perspective remains confined to the front end of the cognitive process, overlooking how causal ascriptions arising from strategic HRM practices inform subsequent ...
Manh Dao +3 more
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Network Structure and the Efficiency Gains from Mergers: Evidence from U.S. Freight Railroads
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The trade‐off between market power and efficiency gains is central to antitrust analyses of mergers, but empirical evidence quantifying efficiencies remains limited. Using transaction‐level data from U.S. freight railroads (1985–2005), this article quantifies merger‐induced cost efficiencies, driven mainly by eliminating inter‐railroad ...
Yanyou Chen
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Broker and institutional investor short selling
Accounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 621-645, March 2025.Abstract Brokers have access to order‐flow data, which they can use to enhance their short‐selling returns. However, New Zealand brokers also have a fiduciary duty to place their clients' interests before their own. We compare the short‐selling returns and trading behaviours of brokers and institutional investors who predominantly focus on profit ...
Ben R. Marshall +3 more
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Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine how accounting quality attributes jointly mitigate underpricing associated with two dimensions of information risk in seasoned equity offerings (SEOs). In information environments with relatively more potent information asymmetry, the evidence suggests that accruals quality and accounting comparability act as substitutes; i.e ...
Adam Bordeman +3 more
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Who Moves First? Price Discovery by Institutional and Retail Investors
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper uses 77 million Finnish trades, classified as foreign institutional or domestic retail, to examine the drivers of price discovery. The results show that foreign institutional investors dominate price discovery overall, including during the Global Financial Crisis. Their informational advantage is explained by buy‐ and sell‐initiated
Zheng Wu +2 more
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Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Historically, investors' information acquisition has been unobservable, but recent regulatory changes have made these activities visible to other market participants. Using this shift, we provide empirical evidence that investors strategically reduce their information acquisition when they expect their actions to be observed.
Eunyoung Lee, Joo Hyung Lee
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