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Reconceptualising ‘agency in mobility’: Agency for becoming and other forms of agency in study abroad

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Study‐abroad programs are increasingly adopted and supported by institutions and governments as a strategic tool for deepening internationalisation and public diplomacy through people‐to‐people, institution‐to‐institution and country‐to‐country connections.
Ly Thi Tran, Thinh Huynh
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Venture Cycles: Theory and Evidence [PDF]

We demonstrate how endogenous information acquisition in venture capital markets creates investment cycles when competing financiers undertake their screening decisions in an uncoordinated way, thereby highlighting the role of intertemporal screening ...
Rune Stenbacka, Thomas Gehrig
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall, Yusraa Maryam, Sumeya Loonat   +2 more
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SMEs investing Corporate Venture Capital in entrepreneurial ventures

, 2020
Investeringer fra etablerte ikke-finansielle selskaper i oppstartsbedrifter, referert til som corporate venture capital (CVC), har de siste tiårene vokst til å bli en betydelig og viktig investortype innen risikokapital. Som følge har det blitt utført en betydelig mengde forskning på deres karakteristikker, inkludert motivasjon, styresett og ...
Lilleøkdal, Fredrik, Mauritzen, Andreas, Skogly, Morten   +2 more
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Conflict of Interest in the Issuance of Public Securities: Evidence from Venture Capital [PDF]

In this paper we investigate potential conflicts of interest in the issuance of public securities in a setting analogous to a universal bank, i.e., the underwriting of initial public offerings by investment banks that hold equity in a firm through a ...
Josh Lerner, Paul Gompers
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Revisão e mapeamento da literatura internacional recente sobre o processo de decisão de gestores de venture capital [PDF]

, 2013
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção, Florianópolis, 2013.Este estudo se configura como um trabalho teórico-descritivo, uma revisão sistemática da ...
Oliveira, Rodrigo Ventura de
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Essence of Venture Investments

Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series Economics. Management. Law, 2015
A. A. Sytnik, A. V. Antonichev
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University strategy in transnational higher education: The strategic approaches of newly established and ‘small’ international branch campuses

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Legality and Venture Governance Around the World [PDF]

We analyze governance with a dataset on investments of venture capitalists in 3848 portfolio firms in 39 countries from North and South America, Europe and Asia spanning 1971-2003.
Daniel Schmidt, Uwe Walz, Douglas Cumming   +2 more
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