Varieties of capitalism

Ebook "Ionic liquids for better separation processes" discusses capital separation processes of industrial interest and explores the potential for substantial improvement offered by a promising class of substances: ionic liquids. These low melting point salts, with their unique characteristics, have been gaining relevance in the field of separation through a variety of approaches.

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Ebook "Advances in taxation (Advances in Taxation, Volume 23)" contains a collection of high-quality manuscripts addressing problems arising from federal, state local and international taxation. Using a wide variety of research methods, the papers address issues concerning challenges in tax administration, taxpayer decisions, ethical issues in taxation, and college savings plans.

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After studying this chapter you will be able to: Show how international investment raises the total value of world output and income, and why all countries share in the net gains, explain how international investment permits investors to spread their risk among a greater variety of assets, present evidence and models suggesting that international investment also facilitates the flow of technology between countries.

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Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "International human resource management" has presents the following content: managing an international staff; training and development of international staff; international compensation and performance management; industrial relations - a comparative and international perspective; varieties of capitalism, national industrial relations systems and transnational challenges;...

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The purpose of this chapter is: To examine how the issuer and time to maturity affect the price of a bond, and to use our knowledge to interpret fluctuations in a broad variety of bond prices.

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Cabbage farming in Kisii County is faced with a number of challenges, top among them being pests and disease damages. Black rot disease has been identified as one of the major reason responsible for the low yields in cabbage. As such, a number of Biotechnological approaches such as Mulching, hot water seed treatment, pruning, biocontrol agents, use of resistant varieties and chemicals have been employed to manage the disease.

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Given considerable changes in the Vietnamese banking environment brought about by significant reforms towards liberalization during the last two decades, this study investigates the evolution of competition and efficiency, compares the competition and efficiency of state-owned banks to jointstock banks, and then tests the “quiet life” hypothesis in this industry over the period 2000–2014. This study employs the efficiency-adjusted Lerner index (i.e.

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After studying this chapter, you should be able to: Develop REA data models for a variety of organizations besides retail stores, develop REA data models for the HR/payroll, manufacturing, and capital assets business cycles.

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The Red River plays a critical role as a spine of historical and cultural life of Ha Noi, the millennium-civilized capital, as well as of the entire Tonkin Delta. The river’s truck stream flowing through Ha Noi and its branching distributaries spread out to form a fertile delta: the Red River Delta. Until now this river has made its appearance with a variety of nominal terms in historical records and folkloristic traditions.

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Public media, whether TV, radio or newspapers, attract sizeable audiences and are the market leaders in many countries. Without exception, the western European public broadcasting channels examined in this survey attract one-third or more of the national television audience. In contrast, audiences for public service channels in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as the United States, tend to be significantly smaller.

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The second industry effect analyzed in our paper takes account of the fact that the human capital of an independent executive can be proxied by the performance of the company where the non-executive director is employed as an executive director. One particular issue with relating director quality to firm performance is that the latter may be influenced by a variety of factors beyond managerial control, such as an overall economic downturn or industry shock. Firm performance is therefore a very noisy measure of director quality. ...

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The federal government’s role in financing and administering these two loan programs differs significantly. Under FFELP, private lenders, such as banks, provide loan capital and the federal government guarantees FFELP lenders a minimum rate of return on the loans they make and repayment if borrowers default.1 Additionally, state-designated guaranty agencies perform a variety of administrative functions in FFELP. Under the Direct Loan Program, federal funds are used as loan capital and are provided through participating schools.

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A second process was the expansion of soybeans and other crops in the cerrado (savannah) region of Brazil by using varieties, soil amendments and conservation tillage developed through long-standing public investment in research and development that allowed cultivation of acid soils that were previously considered unsuitable for agriculture. This was a major technological success that dramatically increased production and exports.

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So, for example, economic dynamics play an important “input” role in innovation. The term “economic dynamics” captures a variety of indicators: venture capital, broadband penetration, investments in R&D, and business formation. The index enables one to explore each of these variables in depth and download detailed data by simply clicking the drill-down feature. Human capital is also a vital input to innovation. Therefore, the index provides different perspectives to evaluate a region’s human capital.

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How do the environments in which businesses operate condition their success or failure? Such questions have long been of interest in the fields of business, economics and politics. They have gained in importance as a result of heightened competitive pressures associated with "globalization". While some see certain institutions as burdens, others see them as a blessing. This book thoroughly examines the main claims of the most important contribution--the Varieties of Capitalism paradigm--to this debate in recent years....

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Asset management industry in Thailand has followed the omega model as defined by Bogle (2004) by which the distribution of returns and benefits from managing mutual funds are explored. As Thailand is the bank base economy, major Thai asset management companies are commercial bank capital market arms. We defined asset management companies (AMC) associated with commercial bank as bank related (BR) AMC. Often, questions regarding products variety and competitive situation among Thai AMC are raised and there is no research explores or answers the aforementioned questions. ...

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In the developed capital market, AMCs offer wider varieties of fund objectives and policies responding to investor risk preferences. Specialized equity funds focus on narrow industry segments dominate U.S. asset management industry (Bogle (2005)). Management fees of equity funds can be viewed as the indicator of security selection and portfolio management skills of fund managers. Nazir and Nawaz (2010) documented that higher management fees lead to higher total fund returns reflecting in higher risk adjusted return or Sharpe’s ratio. ...

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Subscribers to this journal benefit from access to a fully searchable knowledge resource stretching far beyond the current volume and issue. Managerial Auditing Journal online is enhanced with a wealth of features to meet the need for fast, effortless, and instant access to the core body of knowledge. Furthermore, this user-friendly electronic library may be networked throughout the subscribing organization to maximize the use and value of the subscription. This is augmented with advanced search facilities and ‘‘choice of access’’ through a variety of alternative journal gateways....

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Electronic formats such as HTML, XML, and XBRL are open standards 43 that define or “tag” data using standard definitions. The tags establish a consistent structure of identity and context. This consistent structure can be recognized and processed by a variety of different software applications. In the case of HTML, the standardized tags enable Web browsers to present Web sites’ embedded text and information in a predictable format.

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The military is formulating new visions, strategies, and concepts that capitalize on emerging information-age technologies to provide its warfighters with significantly improved capabilities to meet the national security challenges of the 21st century. These programs are described in such documents as the Quadrennial Defense Review, Joint Vision 2020, a variety of publications describing networkcentric warfare (NCW),

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