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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 An explicit achievement motive is intuitively related to good performance. In contrast, the present paper directs attention to conditions where individuals with a strong explicit achievement motive display poor performance.
Julia Schüler, Wanja Wolff
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Africa’s businesswomen – underfunded or underperforming?
Small Business Economics, 2023 AbstractWhile the recent success of Africa’s ‘Lionesses’ – successful female entrepreneurs – is internationally celebrated, less is known about how liquidity can fuel the success of the ‘Lionesses’ and other businesswomen. Using information from a panel of over 800 male- and female-owned businesses in Ghana (ISSER-IGC survey), we capture a measure of ...
Charles Ackah +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Recent policy reports documented that a growing group of students in secondary education could perform better given their expected performance. Studies showed that school performance is related to a range of social–emotional factors, including self ...
Eva Feron, Trudie Schils
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South African Journal of Education, 2022 Utilising a qualitative case study, we set out to investigate how learners at Hope Saturday School evoked the principles of ubuntu/humanity as they collaborated during project-based learning.
Saloshna Vandeyar , Matsie Agnes Mohale
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Monitoring offshore wind farm power performance with SCADA data and an advanced wake model [PDF]
Wind Energy Science, 2017 Wind farm underperformance can lead to significant losses in revenues. The efficient detection of wind turbines operating below their expected power output and immediate corrections help maximize asset value.
N. Mittelmeier, T. Blodau, M. Kühn
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Long-run Stock Return of IPO Firms in India: Examining Investment and Profitability Hypothesis
Vikalpa, 2023 The finance literature has analysed several aspects of the IPO market, namely, hot issue market, initial under-pricing, and long-run underperformance.
Avdhesh Kumar Shukla, Tara Shankar Shaw
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Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2021 This article explores the elements that contribute to the poor performance of grade 12 learners in Accounting. As far as Accounting as a school subject in South Africa is concerned, there is a growing concern about the underperformance of learners, due ...
Chris Hendriks, Grace Dunn
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Are controlled companies underperforming?
Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems, 2020 Research Question: Are controlled companies underperforming in the United States? Motivation: Anecdotal evidence shows that the average market capitalization of controlled firms increased from $8.3 billion in 2005 to $20.6 billion in 2015. Given the rapid increase in capitalization, the group of controlled companies has become an important player in ...
Le, Linh, Nie, Dongfang
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Failing Is Derailing: The Underperformance as a Stressor Model
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Job performance and job stress are widely studied phenomena in occupational research. However, most literatures on the relationship between work stress and job performance conceptualize job stress as an antecedent of performance, in line with the stress ...
Shani Pindek
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Long-Run Pricing Performance of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in Pakistan
NUST Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021 This study investigates the long-run pricing performance of 90 IPOs listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange from 1995 to 2010. This study finds evidence that IPOs show signs of underpricing and underperform over three years after listing; however, the ...
Muhammad Zubair Mumtaz +1 more
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