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Convergence and Divergence of Influences on Career Choice : A Comparative Analysis of Influences on Career Choices of MBA Students in China, Ghana, Greece, Israel, Korea, North Cyprus, Turkey and UK
Dexter, Barbara; Forson, Cynthia; Inal, Gozde; Karatas-Ozkan, Mine; Kusku, Fatma; Ozbilgin, Mustafa; Malach-Pines, Ayala; Tanova, Cem; Yoon, Jeongkoo (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007) -
Convergence of of corporate finance patterns in Europe
Mullineux, A.; Murinde, V.; Sensarma, R. (2010)We investigate the pattern of corporate financing through bank loans, bond markets and stock markets in the European Union (EU). Specifically, we examine whether the European economies are converging towards a market-oriented ... -
Convergent and Divergent Trajectories of Corporate Governance
Gindis, David; Veldman, Jeroen; Willmott, Hugh (2020-07-22)This Special Issue revisits the classic question of comparative corporate governance research, namely whether national corporate governance systems are converging. More specifically, it focuses on several ‘convergence ... -
A Conversation with Geoff Hodgson
Gagliardi, Francesca; Gindis, David; Hodgson, Geoffrey (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019-11-29)This article is the introductory chapter to a festschrift in honour of Geoff Hodgson. In work spanning four decades, Geoff Hodgson has made many path-breaking contributions to institutional economics, evolutionary economics, ... -
Convert, Defend and Acquire : Evaluating consumer preference through brand mindspace.
Cooray, Muditha; Duus, Rikke (2010) -
The Corporate Baby in the Bathwater: Why Proposals to Abolish Corporate Personhood Are Misguided
Gindis, David; Singer, Abraham (2023-03-30)The fear that business corporations have claimed unwarranted constitutional protections which have entrenched corporate power has produced a broad social movement demanding that constitutional rights be restricted to human ... -
Corporate financialization in South Africa : From investment strike to housing bubble
Karwowski, Ewa (2018-08-01)This article reveals the processes of financialization in the South African economy by tracing the sources and destinations of non-financial corporations’ liquidity. The paper argues that rather than the volume of non-financial ... -
Corporate financing and macroeconomic volatility in the European union
Mullineux, A.; Murinde, V.; Sensarma, R. (2010)This paper investigates the impact of corporate financing patterns in the European Union (EU) on macroeconomic volatility. We examine macroeconomic data for eight EU countries. We find that during the period 1990 through ... -
Corporate governance and board configuration in Greece
Gkliatis, Ioannis; Tsene, Chryssoula; Koufopoulos, Dimitrios (Virtus Interpress, 2019-02-05) -
Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Financial Performance in Cultural and Entertainment Industry: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies
Zhang, Peiyu; Katsikas, Epameinondas; Katsoulis, Vasileios; Athanasiadis, Konstantinos (2023-12-06)Cultural and entertainment industry has entered a phase of rapid development in China, and with it comes some problems on regulating its derivatives and also raising social concern about Corporate Social Responsibility ... -
Corporate strategy financialized : Conjuncture, arbitrage and earnings capacity in the S&P500
Andersson, T.; Haslam, C.; Katechos, G.; Tsitsianis, N.; Lee, Edward (2010-09-01)The conjuncture that ushered in the era of shareholder value served to embed capital market expectations into corporate governance aligning management and shareholder interests. Market arbitrage focussed on modifying ... -
Corridor or blind alley? The A1M Herts corridor consortium
Charlesworth, J.; Rainnie, A.; Kraithman, D. (1989)Local authority intervention in the local economy has proliferated in recent years and is not, as much work suggests, confined to large Labour controlled authorities coping with inner city problems and/or declining heavy ... -
Creating Critical Festival Discourse through flexible mixed Methodological research design
Jepson, Allan; Clarke, Alan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)Our chapter traces a path through previously published doctoral research (Jepson, 2009) which investigates the planning and construction of community cultural festivals. Socio-cultural phenomena such as festivals are ... -
Creating difference: overcoming barriers to diversity in UK film and television employment
Randle, K.R.; Kurian, J.; Leung, W.F. (Creative Industries Research & Consultancy Unit, Business School, University of Hertfordshire, 2007)A diverse workforce can inform the development of new or enhanced products and services, open up market opportunities, improve market share and broaden an organisation’s customer base1. By 2010, only 20% of the UK’s workforce ... -
Creating the Opera Habit: Marketing and the Experience of Opera
Fraser, Peter; Fraser, Iain (Routledge, 2013-11-28) -
Credit market structure and bank screening : an indirect test on Italian data
Agostino, M.; Gagliardi, F.; Trivieri, F. (2010)Based on a large panel of Italian SMEs, this paper focuses on the relationship between firms' default probability and the amount of bank debt they obtain, evaluating whether and to what extent this link is affected by the ... -
Crisis and Change in Industrial Relations in Central and Eastern Europe
Soulsby, Anna; Hollinshead, Graham; Steger, Thomas (2017-03-01)This article introduces the special issue on industrial relations in Central and Eastern Europe since the financial and economic crisis. Already dependent economically on funding from the west, and lacking the robust ... -
Crisis and recession in Central and Eastern Europe
Hardy, Jane (2010) -
Crisis as Capitalist Opportunity : new accumulation through public service commodification
Huws, Ursula (2011-10)This essay argues that 2008 marked a turning point for international capital, with the financial crisis providing an unprecedented opportunity to embark on a new phase of accumulation based, not on what might be called ... -
Crisis, sustainability of electricity prices and state interventions in Argentina
Dagdeviren, Hulya (2012-04)This article examines the sustainability of wholesale power prices following the 2001 economic crisis in Argentina. We depart from the contractual disputes between the multinational power generating companies and the state ...