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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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The security and the legal aspects of Turkish straits [PDF]
, 2002 Caşın, Mesut Hakkı (Dogus Author) -- Conference full title: Symposium on the Straits Used for International Navigation : 16-17 November 2002, Ataköy Marina, Istanbul, TurkeyDuring the last century, Turkish Straits witnessed two world wars and, following
Caşın, Mesut Hakkı
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The first bear raid and squeeze: Isaac Le Maire and the Dutch East India Company
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract In 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) faced a bear raid by a syndicate of short sellers led by Isaac Le Maire, a former director. We reconstruct the forward trade between 1607 and 1611, the actions taken by the syndicate members, and the responses to these actions by the company.
Oscar Gelderblom +2 more
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Creativity and cultural globalisation in suburbia: Mediating the Perth-Singapore network [PDF]
, 2006 According to Singapore-based academics Randolph Kluver and Wayne Fu, there is a need to seek out cultural proxy signifiers “which indicate the extent to which beliefs and values are moving across national boundaries” (Kluver and Fu 2004).
Lee, T.
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The illusion of competence: Managers and the Dunning–Kruger effect
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract Do managers properly recognize their own expertise? This study explores distortions in self‐perception by investigating the presence of the Dunning–Kruger effect, a cognitive bias that distorts self‐assessment, within managerial contexts. Although widely studied in psychology, its implications for management remain underexplored.
Francesca Sanguineti +3 more
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A mediated crisis: news and the national mind [PDF]
, 2008 The thesis examines a mediated crisis and how The Straits Times and The Australian approach the reporting of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). It looks at how this mediated crisis exemplifies the culture of the national newspaper and in turn how ...
Bottomley, John Arthur
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An Updated Ecology of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) at Sea
Fisheries Oceanography, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Atlantic salmon have had a key role in European and North American oceans and human societies. Salmon are exploited and observed in rivers and along coasts, but there has always been great interest in knowing where salmon are going when they are at sea.
Robert J. Lennox +5 more
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Ibis, EarlyView.The importance of considering historical data in developing conservation and restoration measures for individual species and for wider ecological restoration has been pointed out by recent reviews but often remains neglected in practice. This paper provides a case study illustrating the issue through a review of the former breeding distribution of the ...
Duncan J. Halley
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Climate change impacts on fish in the Baltic Sea
Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract The Baltic Sea is a marginal sea with strong abiotic gradients harbouring fish of both marine and freshwater origin. Here we review the empirical evidence for how changes in climate variables have impacted different fish and fish communities in the Baltic Sea.
Örjan Östman +7 more
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