Theoretical

This thesis develops two objectives. The first objective is to develop a new improved measure for DRPTs. To achieve the first objective, this thesis develops and tests a measure that seeks to distinguish the proportion of transactions in total RPTs that is discriminatory from the proportion that is based on legitimate business motives. The second objective of the thesis is to investigate the effectiveness of Bangladesh’s 2006 reforms for protecting minority shareholders from DRPTs. For this Oliver Williamson’s Market and Hierarchy model is used as a theoretical framework.

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This research seeks to understand the interplay of structure and agency in shaping the jobseeking experiences of NESB skilled migrants in Australia. The mixed-method research is underpinned by the meta-theoretical approach of critical realism and uses the Continuous Survey of Australia’s Migrants (CSAM) quantitative secondary data and qualitative semi-structured interviews with NESB skilled migrants in Australia.

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The objective of this research is to explore the domestic transfer pricing practices of service organisations in Australia with the emphasis placed on examining whether, in internal transactions, the domestic transfer price had any influence on the value perceived by the internal buyer. Because the extant transfer pricing theories cannot explain the value perceived by the internal customer in internal exchange of goods and services, an exploratory research methodology is adopted and no assumptions are made about the relationship.

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The aim of this research is to deepen insight into the social-psychological factors that influence the formation of a desire to attend classical music concerts and to better predict people’s positive behavioural responses towards live classical music performances.

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This is an empirical investigation into the development of the accounting profession in Sri Lanka in the post-independence era. Taking the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (ICASL) as a case, the study researches the accounting professionalization process during the past five decades (1959-2010). Thus, the study focuses on the struggles and interactions between competing groups and organisations within the accounting profession.

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This research is based on the hypothesis that applying building industry’s best practice initiatives can deliver sustainability within the built environment. This hypothesis assumes links between the applied practices, the outcome achieved and sustainability. This research tests this hypothesis with a single ‘critical’ case project; the recently constructed Lithgow Government Office Building (GOB) Development, and against a theoretical framework that defines sustainability.

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This dissertation presents a creative practice-based experiment in civil celebrancy with the focus on contemporary celebrancy. The dissertation constructs and reflects upon a Ceremony of Restoration to give meaning, healing, and mending for people’s lives in the wake of traumatic, chaotic, and unresolved events. This ceremony can be used by the person, or people, at its centre to give expression to such experiences and feelings and to build resilience through a secular ritual involving their stories, memories, images, personal artefacts, and music.

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The purpose of the thesis is three-fold. The first aim is to thoroughly review the extant literature in marketing and management and to prioritise key findings on country image effects and the main determinants of employer attractiveness. The second aim is to develop and test the conceptual model comprising these key determinants. The third aim is to make a theoretical contribution to this new area of research and to provide implications for organisations in their recruitment marketing strategies locally and globally.

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The present study contributed to the body of knowledge by providing a theoretical framework in modelling and predicting host residents’ interactive behaviour towards tourists, and a comprehensive understanding of the roles that psychologic, demographic and socio-graphic factors plays in the different directions of community attitudes towards tourism. It also provided tourism authorities with practical recommendations and implications in terms of tourism planning and a harmonious relationship between the host residents and tourists.

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The increasingly important role played by family firms in China’s fledging capital market calls for a better understanding of how it works and is governed. This study aims to explore how corporate governance issues in family firms are tackled from the perspective of investor protection. The thesis addresses the question by first presenting theoretical models showing the relations among investor protection, family governance, and agency costs in family firms.

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For more than five decades, dithizone has been widely used as an analytical reagent. This ligand forms strongly colored complexes with metal ions and this ability to form complexes can be used for extraction/removal of certain metal ions in addition to analytical determination. In static mode, the supercritical carbon dioxide extraction of copper and lead ions from aqueous solutions after complexation by the dithizone ligand is studied (at two different conditions: a) p = 120 bar, T = 30 °C, and b) p = 72 bar, T = 50 °C).

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CO adsorption on the Cu(211) surface was investigated using energy, geometry and vibrational data, which were produced through periodic DFT computations. Adsorption on the (111) terrace, as well as the previously reported top and bridge sites of the stepedges, was studied at 0.25, 0.33, 0.50, 0.66, 0.75, and 1.00 monolayer (ML) CO coverage. Results showed that up to and including 0.50 ML, on-top or bridge adsorption is preferred on the step-edges.

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Photovoltaic energy sources are increasingly in demand due to the cost of petroleum fuels and concerns about carbon emissions. For this reason, it is important to determine the photovoltaic properties of the compounds that are thought to be suitable for these energy sources. Here, 1,1,2,3,4,5-Hexaphenyl-1H-silole (HPS) and 1,1,2,3,4,5-Hexaphenyl-1H-germole (HPG) compounds that are thought to have excellent photovoltaic properties, electronic and charge transport properties were investigated experimentally and theoretically.

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We performed a theoretical study, at the BLYP/aug-cc-pVDZ theoretical level, of the mechanisms of H-transfer between biologically relevant tautomers of cytosine and guanine. The analysis of the ground- and excited state energy barriers of the conversions showed that in some cases they are lower as compared to the ground state reactions. The inclusion of one water molecule as a catalyst in the oxo-amino form of cytosine and guanine drastically changes the mechanism of the reactions in the ground as well as in the excited state.

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Theoretical minimal RNA rings code by design over the shortest length once for each of the 20 amino acids, a start and a stop codon, and form stem-loop hairpins. This defines at most 25 RNA rings of 22 nucleotides.

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Part 1 of ebook "Event management in sport, recreation and tourism: Theoretical and practical dimensions" presents the following content: traditional and niche events in sport, recreation and tourism; the concept of knowledge in event management; the event planning model: the event development phase; the event planning model: the event operational planning phase;...

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Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Event management in sport, recreation and tourism: Theoretical and practical dimensions" presents the following content: the event planning model - the event implementation, monitoring and management phase; the event planning model: the event evaluation and renewal phase; safeguarding the natural environment in event management; facilitating quality in event management;...

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This study contributes to the mobile app usability literature by extending the scope of research concept "mobile app usability" to the tourism sector. Previously, this concept was only mentioned in the field of information systems (IS).

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Ebook Business economics and managerial decision making: Part 1 presents the following content: Chapter 1 ownership control and corporate governance, chapter 2 business objectives: goals and theories of the firm, chapter 3 risk and uncertainty, chapter 4 consumer behaviour, chapter 5 demand analysis, chapter 6 estimation of demand functions, chapter 7 production and efficiency, chapter 8 costs, chapter 9 pricing and market structure: theoretical considerations, chapter 10 pricing in practice, chapter 11 advertising, chapter 12 investment appraisal.

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This study is the continuation of our previous work (Kopaˇc, Abrami, et al., 2021) where the theoretical approach of polymer-polymer interaction to predict the crosslink density of hydrogels was introduced. This theory is further extended to the flow properties of hydrogels that allow the analysis of synergistic effect in hydrogel systems and the understanding of possible anomalous behavior of certain mixtures.

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