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Determinants of Railroad Capital Structure, 1830-1885 [PDF]
U.S. Railroads suffered repeated financial crises in the 19th and 20th Centuries. These crises were caused by a combination of high debt levels and strongly procyclical revenues and profits.
Daniel A. Schiffman
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The concept of predictive maintenance in advanced manufacturing systems is crucial from the point of view of resource efficiency in the era of high competitiveness forced by energy transformation in the digital economy. Against the backdrop of sustainability and the opportunities a data cooperative offers, the combination of predictive ...
Christian Schachtner +6 more
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THE RAILROAD CAPACITY CRISIS: After Cutting to the Bone and More, Trains Are Back
Essays in Economic and Business History, 2008 During the Era of Railroad building (primarily the last half of the 19th century), it was far more profitable to lay track than to operate railroads due to the subsidiesfrom various levels ofgovernment and the competition between cities to be located on ...
Richard Stone, Michael Landry
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Новые технологии, 2017 The article presents the main directions for the implementation of the policy of import substitution at the regional level on the example of the Rostov region.
S. A. Anesyants, N. A. Kuryanov
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The Rise and Fall of Bank Control in the United States: 1890-1939 [PDF]
This article studies how equity ownership and corporate control were separated in the United States. Initially, railroads and industrial firms were tightly controlled by a few shareholders; this situation was altered in the 1890s by massive mergers and ...
Miguel Cantillo Simon
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Corporate ESG Greenwashing: Does Regulatory Proximity Matter?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) greenwashing undermines sustainable development, yet the influence of regulatory proximity on oversight is understudied. By introducing the “distance decay effect” from geoeconomics into ESG misconduct research and using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2022, this study reveals a ...
Weiqi Zhao +4 more
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Behavior of railroads on shrink-swell soils
E3S Web of Conferences, 2016 Shrink-swell soils are characterized by significant volume expansions and contractions during wetting and drying processes, respectively. Railroads on shrink-swell soils are subjected to huge solicitations associated with the volume change of the soil ...
Wang Dong +2 more
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Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad: 1997 [PDF]
Approximately twenty-five years ago, a majority of the railroads in the industry were either in or near bankruptcy. As a partial cure, a series of federal and state legislation was enacted which freed the industry from archaic laws passed in the days ...
Carol J. Cumber, Paul R. Reed
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Bridging Academic Research and Business Practices at the Crossroad of Circular Economy and the SDGs
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The global shift toward sustainability has amplified interest in the Circular Economy, which aims to optimize resource use and minimize waste. In parallel, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a universal framework for addressing social, environmental, and economic challenges.
Corentin Juin, Andrea Nicolodi
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tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & CritiqueInfrastructures of circulation, transportation, and communication play a central role in Luxemburg’s work in political economy as well as revolutionary strategy. This paper seeks to reconstruct and develop a theory of capitalist infrastructural expansion
Charli Muller
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