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Changing Perceptions into Reality: Fiduciary Standards to Match the American Directors’ Monitoring Function [PDF]
, 1989 This paper describes the historical fiduciary obligations of the American outside director and contrasts those obligations with prevailing obligations in today’s environment of the monitoring director.
Cox, James D.
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Negative Stiffness Induced and Controlled by Constriction
physica status solidi (b), EarlyView.Structures with negative stiffness can be stabilized by constriction of external displacement. Furthermore, constriction can make a conventional positive stiffness material exhibit negative stiffness, either bidirectional or unidirectional (shown in the figure).
Elena Pasternak, Arcady V. Dyskin
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Hold-Up, Stakeholders and Takeover Threats. [PDF]
We analyze the impact of takeover threats on long term relationships between the target owners and other stakeholders. In the absence of takeovers, stakeholders’ bargaining power increases their incentive to invest but reduces the owners’ incentive to ...
Chemla, Gilles
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Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Personal autonomous vehicles can sense their surrounding environment, plan their route, and drive with little or no involvement of human drivers. Despite the latest technological advancements and the hopeful announcements made by leading entrepreneurs, to date no personal vehicle is approved for road circulation in a “fully” or “semi ...
Xingshuai Dong +13 more
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Alternative Mechanisms for Corporate Control [PDF]
We examine performance and management characteristics of Fortune 500 firms experiencing one of three types of control change: internally precipitated management turnover, hostile takeover, and friendly takeover. We find that firms experiencing internally
Andrei Shleifer +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study develops and tests a novel prioritization framework for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under varying geographic scales (regional, sub‐regional, national), focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as a pilot case.
Lea Issa, Mutasem El Fadel
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The Incentives for Takeover in Oligopoly [PDF]
We present a model of takeover where the target optimally sets its reserve price. Under relatively standard symmetry restrictions, we obtain a unique equilibrium.
Christian Wey, Roman Inderst
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Mergers and Acquisitions in Europe [PDF]
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the European takeover market.We characterize the main features of the domestic and cross-border corporate takeovers involving European companies in the period 1993-2001.We provide detailed and comparable ...
Martynova, M., Renneboog, L.D.R.
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Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Social media platforms are imbued with politics and values through an interplay of coded architectures, platform policies, economic models, and algorithmic curation, together shaping and shaped by the activities of users. This dynamic set of relations is most evident during moments of disruption, in which platform politics and values come under debate.
Sean Ward +3 more
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