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Chernomaz, Kirill. "Behavior and learning in asymmetric independent private values auctions." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1179508964.
Full textJennings, Barbara. "Homelessness the private values at the heart of public policy /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
Full textMellon, Elizabeth Owen. "UK managers' values : a comparison of the public and private sectors." Thesis, London Business School (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300247.
Full textCunningham, Laura. "Job satisfaction and values of counselors in private practice and agency settings." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4612.
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Zeng, Jiayang, and 曾佳阳. "Formal schooling and private tutoring: valuesembedded in the curriculum in China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48369445.
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Osman, Sharina. "Building reputation through organisational values : a case study of a private hospital in Malaysia." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29017.
Full text蘇永成 and Wing-sing So. "Private estate management tenant participation and the added values bythe information technology application." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31969008.
Full textTam, Cindy Woon-ling. "Parental choice of private primary schools in Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9982.
Full textSo, Wing-sing. "Private estate management tenant participation and the added values by the information technology application." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25176353.
Full textYao, Cherry. "Behavior in Sealed-Bid Second-Price Auctions with Correlated Private Values and Discrete Bidding." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/145116.
Full textKadyakapita, Mozecie Spector John. "An investigation of the work-related values of educational managers of private church secondary schools in Malawi, and the implications of the values for OD interventions: a case study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003542.
Full textBoguslavsky, Marianna. "Cultural values and leadership styles of middle level managers in a private sector hospitals in the Eastern Cape." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/478.
Full textHelmlinger, Teresa A. "The Essence of Centennial Campus: A Public/Private Strategic Alliance that Responds to Corporate Core Values of Innovation." NCSU, 2005. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06162005-094306/.
Full textMureddu, Torres Dino Cesar. "Values of students in higher education in Mexico : two case studies of a private and a public university." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020581/.
Full textGonzalez, Angela. "Private Voices Teaching Public Values in the Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Sarah Orne Jewett." TopSCHOLAR®, 1998. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/308.
Full textStetler, Kyle Matthew. "Capitalization of environmental amenities and wildfire in private home values of the wildland-urban interface of northwest Montana, USA." CONNECT TO THIS TITLE ONLINE, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05302008-101932/.
Full textKokt, D., and der Merwe C. A. Van. "The impact of organisational culture on service delivery in a major private security company." Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 7, Issue 2: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/535.
Full textIn today's highly competitive business environment service delivery has become a key issue. Providing quality service could enhance an organisation's competitive advantage with beneficial financial implications. Service delivery requires the full cooperation and commitment of all the employees in the organisation, including management. The culture of the organisation supports this by eliciting a unified response from employees that supports the quality of service rendered to customers. In this regard the paper provides a statistical analysis of the impact of organisational culture on service delivery in a major South African private security company. Due to its applicability the Competing Values Framework (CVF) was instrumental in measuring the culture of the organisation and the award winning Baldrige Award Criteria in ascertaining its levels of service delivery.
Richert, David. "Public Understandings of Environmental Quality: A Case Study of Private Forest Land Management in Southwest Virginia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31962.
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Ausbrooks, Carrie Yvonne Barron. "A Comparative Analysis of the Values That Are Predominant in Private Schools, Public Choice Schools, and Public Attendance-Zone Schools in San Antonio, Texas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332627/.
Full textJi, Junzhe. "Strategic decision-making process characteristics, Confucian values and their effects on international entry mode decisions : a study of Chinese private firms." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1875/.
Full textLEIPOLDT, Erik, and eleipoldt@upnaway com. "Good life in the balance: a cross-national study of Dutch and Australian disability perspectives on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide." Edith Cowan University. Education And Arts: School Of, 2003. http://adt.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2006.0010.html.
Full textBuening, Jonathan Gregory. "Non-Academic Differences Between Public and Private High Schools: The Importance of School Climate." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1407431953.
Full textWegmann, Bertil. "Bayesian Inference in Structural Second-Price Auctions." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Statistiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-57278.
Full textAt the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: Epub ahead of print. Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.
Gugler, Klaus, Michael Weichselbaumer, and Christine Zulehner. "Competition in the economic crisis: Analysis of procurement auctions." Elsevier, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2014.10.007.
Full textKIM, DONG-HYUK. "Bayesian Econometrics for Auction Models." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193663.
Full textLigneres, Ingrid. "Les valeurs de la culture paysanne dans le monde agricole contemporain : une enquête sociologique en Carcassonnais et en Roussillon." Thesis, Perpignan, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PERP0031/document.
Full textThe Farmers socioprofessional group has gone through a significant socio-economical change since the Second World War. The starting point of this thesis – in the hinge of an hypothetical-deductive and empirical-inductive approach – is to wonder whether or not some more or less distinct traces of the peasant culture romain in the layout of the contemporary agricultural world values. Shall we declare the end of the peasant culture just like some researchers do about the end of the warking class ? The field survey is based on a qualitative approach of the data gathered via partially guided and free interviews as well as direct and participating observations along with sociological films. Their analysis was beforehand based on the drafting of a common, cultural referent created from the syncretism (merge) of the old and new values, allowing to build the cultural referend « farmo-peasant » and therefore confirming the theory of a syncretism of the values. The values within this cultural referent similar to the studied corpus have been characterized into three groups : the « distinctive and identity values », the « necessary values » and the « extraprofessional values ». The analysis of the data also highlighted a differentiated appropriation of the cultural referent « farmo-peasant » clarified thanks to its classification into three ideal models : peasant-cultivator, company manager-peasant and farmer-owner. Widely, this thesis examines the culture as a way of life for a group which at the same time falls in with the sociology of the ways of life, the work sociology and without forgetting the rural sociology
Zeno, Mark Andrew. "Housing Partnerships: Understanding Organizational Culture Elements and Building and Maintenance Strategies Between University Professionals and Private Corporate Developers." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1594816412126803.
Full textPapouli, Eleni. "The development of professional social work values and ethics in the workplace : a critical incident analysis from the students' perspective." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/48325/.
Full textLeipoldt, Erik A. "Good life in the balance: A cross-national study of Dutch and Australian disability perspectives on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2003. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/116.
Full textIvanov, Asen Vasilev. "Essays in behavioral economics in the context of strategic interaction." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1179515760.
Full textFontenele, Maria Marly Teixeira de Almeida. "A Influência dos Modelos Administrativos sobre os Valores Organizacionais: Os Casos das Secretarias de Estado da Fazenda e do Planejamento e Gestão do Ceará." Doctoral thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/21562.
Full textA Dinâmica da vida social, económica e política tem lançado desafios contínuos à gestão pública. Os modelos de administração pública se apresentam como ferramentas para o agir do Estado, que atua na busca de soluções para problemas de diversas naturezas, complexidades e amplitudes. Ao longo da história e de acordo com o modelo de desenvolvimento vigente, a Administração Pública, que privilegia a técnica, esteve ora aproximada, ora afastada do conteúdo político do agir. Por essa razão, as organizações públicas têm sido submetidas a contínuos apelos de mudanças que têm repercutido na cultura organizacional. Isso ocorre, sobretudo, porque os incentivos dominantes para a escolha dos meios e modos das ações a serem desenvolvidas são os valores. As peculiaridades da Administração Pública requerem, das suas organizações, a formação de uma cultura que se fundamente em um conjunto de valores que favoreça a justiça e a equidade, a fim de possibilitar o bem comum e o interesse público. Esse cenário explica o interesse pela cultura organizacional das Secretarias da Fazenda e do Planeamento e Gestão do Estado do Ceará que foram pioneiras na reforma da gestão pública local. Além disso, reconhece-se, como ideal, a formação de uma cultura organizacional que contemple, ao mesmo tempo, valores de instrumentalidade técnica e racionalidade política capazes de motivar ações que favoreçam a criação de valor público. Este estudo faz uma incursão pela cultura das duas secretarias buscando identificar, por meio do inventário de valores organizacionais, em que medida os diferentes modelos de administração e gestão pública influenciaram, do ponto de vista organizacional, o universo e a hierarquia dos valores do setor público.
The dynamics of social, economic and political life have continually challenged public administration. Public Administration models are set forth as tools for State action, which acts in the search for solutions to problems of varying natures, complexities and amplitudes. Throughout history and according to the current development model, Public Administration, which privileges the technique, is now an approximation, far removed from the political content of acting. For this reason, public organisations have been subjected to continuous calls for change that have had repercussions on organisational culture. This is mainly because values are the dominant incentives for choosing the means and modes of the actions to be carried out. The characteristics of Public Administration require from their organisations, the formation of a culture that is based on a set of values that favours justice and equity, in order to foster the common good and public interest. This scenario explains the interest in the organisational culture of the Departments of Finance and Planning and Management of the State of Ceara, who were pioneers in the reform of local public administration. Moreover, the formation of an organisational culture that contemplates, at the same time, values of technical instrumentality and political rationality capable of motivating actions that favour the creation of public value is recognised as ideal. This study makes inroads into the culture of the two departments, seeking to identify, through the inventory of organisational values, the extent to which different Public Administration and management models influenced, from an organisational point of view, the range and hierarchy of public sector values.
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Diouf, Djibril. "Partenariats Public-Privé au Sénégal : analyse institutionnelle, contractuelle et conflictuelle du contrôle public dans l’hydraulique urbaine et périurbaine." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM1134.
Full textThrough this PhD thesis, our initial objective was to understand the control exercised by the government on their private partners in the Public-Private Partnerships. This was necessitated by the differences in objectives of the partner institutions and their different characteristics.This is why it has been the question for us to understand how the authorities through the institutional and contractual arrangements exercised this role of control over the private partner.On the basis of such an approach, it was subscribed to qualitative methods including case study to understand the control on the PPP.On the institutionalization, axis such as the inclusion of all the stakeholders, the differences in objectives, the roles and responsibilities, the lack of hierarchy were alternately analyzed. This allowing to make them prerequisites to PPPs.With respect to contracting, we had to look at the control models which were based on the need to correct the system and on those which create the conditions of accountability. To conclude this point, it will appear that contracts should be based on elements of performance.Finally, on the treatment of the differences between partners, the differences in goals, values and characteristics, the opportunism of partners especially the private ones, the need for an alliance and cooperation, the pragmatism of partners have been highlighted. In other words in the PPP, it is necessary to manage such differences
Boutin, Nathalie. "Management territorial et conflits environnementaux industriels : à la recherche de la biodiversité." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0596.
Full textThe issue of biodiversity has been at the forefront of environmental concerns in the same way as climate change, and has been the subject of a voluminous literature and numerous alarmist reports worldwide. Depending on whether one looks at the question from the point of view of the life sciences or the social sciences one has complementary but also contradictory views. The issue of biodiversity, particularly in the Mediterranean, is considered from the angle of its territorial management, which focuses on the comparative study of several localized cases in areas marked by intense interactions between men and the environment, where the consideration for this issue is questioned in a conflictual decision-making context. This thesis deals with territorial management and the approach to biodiversity that emerges from practices related to the state of biodiversity, the phenomena that threaten it. This knowledge is confronted with managerial practices when they are constrained by conflicting events revealing the values of multiple stakeholders. We deduce three models of « Man-Nature » relationships and the regulatory implications that arise from them, and we highlight the paradoxes of public policies oriented towards biodiversity. We then show the determinative nature of these explicit and implicit models, mobilized by decision makers at the individual and institutional levels. This brings to light the weakness of the institutionalization of the issue of biodiversity, stammering. This leads us to provide recommendations for the integration of this issue into managerial practices, both public and private
Molinier, Juliette. "Le partage en droit fiscal." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BORD0258/document.
Full textJoint possession ends through sharing. Sharing substitutes private rights to a collectiveownership over an asset or set of assets which is split.Joint possession is shown traditionally as a transient state, a bad state which must be ended.Legal regulations specific to sharing have subsequently been implemented; recorded taxationhas ensured that these regulations are supported.Today, sharing is conceivable as a value. Sharing regulations have therefore developed.This development is not apprehended by tax legislation. The processing of balances, reducedcompensation or reported compensation is sometimes disputable.In addition, the tax office still maintains the distinction between pure and simple sharing andsharing with a balance, a distinction which bears no consequence in civil law, and which is nolonger justified today.Sharing has a declarative and retroactive effect. Each one of the allottees is considered to havebeen the sole owner of the asset put into their lot.The individuals’ capital gains system is modelled on this analysis, which consequently,throws caution to the wind, and balances or compensation which are paid by the allottee of theasset. The legal analysis of the sharing ignores the economic aspect of the sharing.As regards taxation on work, the regulations are complex and disparate, not necessarily basedon the legal analysis; the tax processing of the sharing is then all the more complicated
Hahn, Moritz. "Essays on Private Equity Value Creation." Diss., lmu, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-116129.
Full textRichards, Andriette. "Creating value in private equity investments." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59758.
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Lundberg, Sofia. "Going once, going twice, SOLD! : the economics of past and present public procurement in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-73622.
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Simpkins, William J. "Value engineering in government and private sector construction." Thesis, Springfield, Va. : Available from National Technical Information Service, 2000. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA383401.
Full textTerzic, Edis, and Sona Pana. "Value creation by private equity firms in Sweden." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-19462.
Full textBecker, Alexander. "Private Equity Buyout Fonds - Value Creation in Portfoliounternehmen." Bern Stuttgart Wien Haupt, 2009. http://d-nb.info/995567328/04.
Full textMontandon, Pascal. "Measuring Risk of Private Equity Portfolios." St. Gallen, 2008. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/02603348002/$FILE/02603348002.pdf.
Full textNery, Márcia Oliveira. "Comprometimento, valores e crenças em escolas na Bahia: um estudo de caso da cultura da organização escolar." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFBA, 2005. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/11900.
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Esta pesquisa se propôs a analisar a cultura da organização escolar, através de um estudo de caso comparativo realizado em duas escolas, uma pública e outra particular. O estudo buscou identificar a partir dos indicadores de clima organizacional, a percepção dos professores acerca dos fatores relacionados à cultura escolar, agrupados em duas categorias: zona de visibilidade e zona de invisibilidade. A primeira categoria é composta pelos fatores denominados de comprometimento com o trabalho docente, comprometimento com a aprendizagem dos alunos, comprometimento com a própria formação / qualificação profissional docente - elementos conceituais que têm de ser escritos, pois devem expressar as representações e a linguagem utilizada em documentos escolares. A segunda categoria, zona de Invisibilidade, é composta pelos elementos invisíveis (linguagem não-verbal, cerimônias, ritos, modismos, comportamentos sociais manifestos) que são os valores e as crenças representativas das práticas cotidianas da escola. Assim, investigou-se, como a escola estabelece sua configuração social e se consolida como uma organização viva e dinâmica, cuja disposição interna e cujo funcionamento, resultam do jogo de forças entre as influências externas e as inter-relações dos seus diferentes atores, mesmo estando submetida às normas e ao controle externo dos sistemas escolares. A busca da compreensão da cultura escolar levou à análise de seus símbolos, artefatos, crenças e valores. Os resultados obtidos na pesquisa, permitiram constatar que os professores das escolas pública e particular compartilham das mesmas crenças e se diferenciam quanto aos valores e aos fatores relacionados ao comprometimento, principalmente nas questões relativas à aprendizagem dos alunos mais pobres. Outro dado que se deve considerar como relevante, diz respeito à importância do investimento na própria formação continuada por parte dos professores, tendo em vista que mesmo quando as iniciativas de promoção de cursos e eventos de natureza pedagógica são da escola, os professores da escola pública apresentarem índices de participação inferiores aos dos professores da escola particular. Os estudos sobre cultura, satisfação com o trabalho e de outras dimensões do campo do comportamento da organização escolar no Brasil são escassos. Este estudo pretende contribuir para a ampliação dos conhecimentos no campo da administração da educação, para compreender como as características culturais de práticas pedagógicas ora conservadoras ora inovadoras, se fazem igualmente presentes em escolas que atendem a realidades distintas, organizadas e administradas, de forma diferenciada, interpondo-se e sobrepondo-se a diversos elementos culturais que lhes são contrários, ainda assim eles ganham força e 6 identidade próprias, determinando de maneira singular suas práticas pedagógicas cotidianas e sua cultura escolar.
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Ruarus, Imme Myrthe. "Engaging the private sector in public-private partnerships in commodity value chains through corporate communication." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-358352.
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Chipendo, Ray Wako. "An analysis of value creation in Private Equity portfolios." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23328.
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Campos, Pedro Guilherme Alves Águas Guedes de. "Comprador público-privado no sector das águas em Portugal." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/711.
Full textO tema desta tese centra-se na construção de um instrumento de análise e comparação económica de duas formas distintas de contratação pública para a execução de infra-estruturas e prestação de serviços de utilidade pública: o Comparador Público-Privado (CPP). Contrapõem-se aqui a "contratação pública tradicional" - contratação da construção de uma determinada infra-estrutura (contratação de inputs) que será posteriormente explorada pelo próprio Estado, assumindo directamente a obrigação da prestação do serviço - à "contratação pública em regime de parceria público-privada" -o Estado, assumindo-se como regulador do serviço público, opta por contratar um serviço a longo prazo (contratação de um output), transferindo a responsabilidade da construção e posterior exploração para o Sector Privado. Este por sua vez proporá uma forma de gestão incorporando a noção de ciclo de vida do projecto, que poderá trazer inovações e benefícios económicos, se avaliados numa lógica do Valor Líquido Actual do projecto. A metodologia iniciada e materializada pela taskforce holandesa para Parcerias e que, passados dois anos, começa a ser exportada com as devidas adaptações pelo o Reino Unido, parte do princípio que a construção do CPP deverá preceder e fundamentar a opção política entre as duas alternativas de contratação referidas. A sua principal particularidade é, para além de comparar custos e receitas numa lógica de ciclo de vida do projecto, avaliar também os riscos das duas opções de contratação, ponderando-os na avaliação final. Neste trabalho utilizou-se o CPP para avaliar a adequabilidade e racionalidade económica do aprofundamento da participação do Sector Privado no Sector das Aguas, mais concretamente para um caso específico de subconcessão de uma ETAR, num Sistema Multimunicipal. E de salientar a actualidade deste tema já que, sendo consensual que sem maior co-financiamento do Sector Privado não será possível garantir, nos timings definidos, os níveis de qualidade do serviço e de atendimento previstos no PEAASAR, a instabilidade política que se tem vivido não tem permitido dar passos definitivos sobre a matéria.
This work focuses on the construction of an analytical instrument - the Public Private Comparator (PPC) - to appraise and compare the two distinctive public procurement procedures for contracting the construction of infrastructures aimed to provide a specific public service. On the one hand, the traditional public procurement procedures - on which it is contracted the construction of a specific infrastructure, on an input basis, that will be managed and explored directly by a public entity. On the other hand, the public procurement of a public-private partnership - on which the State chooses to contract the long-term provision of a service, on an output basis, transferring responsibility to the private partner as the State becomes a regulator of the service. The private party will think on the project's life cycle and therefore will manage the problems, coming up with innovations that, if evaluated on a Net Present Value basis, will bring up economical benefits. This methodology firstly implemented by the Dutch partnerships taskforce and which, two years later is being followed by other countries as the UK, holds on the fact that the PPC construction shall precede and support the political decisions for the form of contracting to be conducted. Its main particularity is, besides comparing costs and gains on a project's life cycle basis, to evaluate the risks of the two alternative procurement options, weighting them on the final evaluation. On the case study, the PPC was used to access for the suitability and economical rationale of promoting a stronger private participation on the Water Sector, more specifically on the sub-concession of a WWTP on a multi-municipal system. This theme is of major interest, as the strict timetable of the Portuguese Water Strategy foresees bigger achievements on the quality and level of attendance, that seem to be only achievable with a stronger co-financing private participation on the near future.
Hammarström, Linnér Marie, and Madeleine Martinsson. "Socioemotionellt Välstånd i Skogsägandet : Värden och beslutsfattande i skogsbruket." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96144.
Full textBackground: The private forest owners are a heterogeneous group that has undergone a change under the past years. They have different characteristics and different relationships to their forest, that leads to their values with their ownership. The study examines the incentives and decision-making process through socioemotional values of forest owners using the SEW-theory. Purpose: The study explains (1) the conditions of forest owners that lead to socioemotional wealth and (2) how socioemotional wealth affects decision making. Method: The study is based on a quantitative cross-sectional design to investigate the purpose of the study. The hypotheses have been developed based on SEW-theory and research on forest ownership, a survey was conducted in collaboration with Södra Skogsägarna. Conclusions: The study proves that SEW-theory is an applicable theory for forest owners. It shows that socioemotional wealth affects the incentive and decision making of forest owners. The results of the study also shows that their socioemotional and economic values increases together. The study find some indication of factors generating SEW and some initial evidence of effects on the forestry orchestrated by SEW.
Olejnik, Lukasz. "Measuring the Privacy Risks and Value of Web Tracking." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GRENM002.
Full textNew medias introduce new problems and risks. There are important security and privacy considerations related to online interactions. Users browsing the Web leave a constant trail of traces referring to their Web actions. A large number of entities take advantage of this data to constantly improve how the Web services function, often offering rich personalization capabilities -- to achieve this, user data is needed. To obtain user data, Web users are being tracked and profiled. Having user data may help enhancing functionality and usability, but it also has the potential of introducing complex privacy problems, related to data collection, storing and processing. The incentives to gather user data are of economical nature: user data is monetized. We start with a description of privacy problems and risks, highlighting their roots in technology changes; users must constantly struggle to adapt to changes. The legal frameworks relating to privacy are about to change: Web companies will have to adopt to new realities. First part of this thesis is devoted to measuring the consequences of private data leaks and tracking. We show how Web browsing history convey insight relating to user interests. We study the risks of Web browsing history leaks. We point out that browsing history is to large extent unique; we perform this basing on a dataset of more than 350k partial history fingerprints. The consequence here is that if browsing histories are personally identifiable information (PII), the upcoming European privacy legal frameworks could potentially result in strict guidelines for their collection, storing and processing. The tracking measurement of third-party resources confirms the popular notion that most of the tracking is carried by US-based companies. This creates interesting information asymmetries, which are of great importance, especially if user data could be simply equated to financial and economical benefits. Second part discusses value of privacy. We study the emerging technology of Real-Time Bidding (RTB), online real-time auctions of ad spaces. We highlight that during the auction phase, bidders in RTB obtain user information such as the visited Web site or user location and they pay for serving ads. In other words, user data flows are strictly related to financial flows. User data is thus monetized. We expose an interesting design characteristic of RTB which allows us to monitor a channel with winning bids -- dynamically established fees bidders pay for displaying their ads. We perform a detailed measurement of RTB and study how this price for user information varies according to such aspects like time of day, user location and type of visited Web site. Using data obtained from real users, we also study the effect of user profiles. Users are indeed treated differently, based on their previously visited Web sites (browsing history). We observed variability in prices of RTB ads, based on those traits. The price for user information in RTB is volatile and typically is in the range of $0.0001-$0.001. This study also had a decidedly important transparency part. We introduced a Web browser extension allowing to discover the price that bidders in RTB pay. This demonstrates how the user awareness could be improved. In part three, we continue the transparency trail. We point out that Web browsers allow every Web site (or third-party resources they include) to record the mouse movements of their visitors. We point out that recent advances in mouse movement analysis points to the notion that mouse movements can potentially be used to recognize and track Web users across the Web; mouse movement analysis can also be used to infer users' demographics data such as age. We highlight the existence of mouse movement analytics -- third-party scripts specializing in mouse movement collections. We also suggest that Web browser vendors should consider including permissions for accessing the API enabling these kind of recordings
Ramcharan-Kotze, Chantal. "Value Capture through Public-Private Collaboration : an exploratory case study of a South African mining firm." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/67301.
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Olsson, Fredrik, and Martin Persson. "Business Valuation : How to Value Private Limited Knowledge Based Companies." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-9301.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the methods used for valuating private limited knowledge based companies and if a new approach is required, create or modify a foundation that will constitute as a base within the valuation process.
Method This is a qualitative study using interviews to obtain primary data. People working in the valuation industry were contacted and we got eight respondents. The questions were designed to answer our purpose and research questions. Telephone interviews were chosen due to the fact that we believed the response would be higher.
Frame of References The theories used in this section is divided into three parts; the financial analysis including traditional valuating methods such as the Discounted Cash Flow model and relative valuating and multiples. The non-financial analysis focus on the underlying analysis consistent of structural- and intellectual capital and also value drivers that are creating value for the firm. In the end other theories concerning the analysis are presented, such as the risk-return trade-off, risk rating systems and analytical hierarchy process.
Empirical Findings In this section the presentations of the respondents’ answers and
and Analysis a brief analysis related to each question. After this an extended analysis is presented focusing on the subject and our risk scheme and guidelines we created/modified. The extended analysis is connected to the respondents’ answers. The purpose of this section is to have a better understanding about the risk of transient intellectual capital and give recommendations how to handle it. Also, guidelines of how to weight different value driver are discussed.
Conclusion We concluded that all valuations utilize more than one approach in order to estimate the most accurate value for the company. For knowledge based companies the biggest risk with a M&A transaction is the probability of diminishing the intellectual capital. We constructed a model that will manage this risk based on our interviews and established theories.
Sousa, João Miguel Inácio Henriques Ferreira de. "Does a public-private partnership concession award affect firm value?" Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10819.
Full textEm Portugal, desde meados da década de noventa, as parcerias público-privadas emergiram como um importante mecanismo para superar a insfractructure gap em vários setores, tais como o rodoviário, o da saúde ou da educação. Até ao momento, poucos estudos foram realizados sobre a experiência portuguesa em relação a estas parcerias. Além disso, a maioria destes estudos incidiram preferencialmente na perspetiva do setor público e, por esse motivo, pouco se sabe sobre o impacto financeiro destas parcerias relativamente ao setor privado. O Estudo apresentado avalia o impacto da concessão de parcerias público-privadas na rentabilidade esperada das empresas participantes. Para realizar este estudo foi aplicada a metodologia de estudos de eventos. Este método permite analisar se existe um efeito anormal no retorno das ações, associado ao anúncio da atribuição da concessão, nas empresas participantes, com o propósito de avaliar se o envolvimento nestes projetos cria valor para essas empresas. Se for expectável que a rentabilidade, atual e futura, das empresas premiadas com as concessões venha a ser afetada, o preço das ações altera-se logo que mercado toma conhecimento da atribuição dessas concessões. Por esse motivo, os preços das ações são vistos como indicadores sólidos do valor de mercado de uma empresa. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que, em média, o impacto do anúncio destas concessões no retorno das ações é negativo e, por isso, estas parecem não acrescentar valor ás empresas.
Since the mid-1990s, public-private partnerships emerged in Portugal as an important and intensively used mechanism to close the wide infrastructure gap in several areas, such as transport, health or education. So far, few studies have been performed on the Portuguese Public-private Partnership experience. Moreover, the majority of the studies are focused in the public sector point of view concerning these projects. Therefore, the private party knows little about the financial impact of public-private partnerships. This study assesses the impact of the award of public-private partnership concessions on the expected profitability of a firm by using event study methodology. The previous method is implemented to measure if there is an "abnormal" stock return, associated with the announcement of the concession award, to determine whether the participation in these projects increase the firm's value. Stock prices are viewed as reliable indicators of a firm's value since they are assumed to reflect all the available information about the firm's current and future profit potential. Therefore, if any new information resulting from the concession award announcement is expected to affect a firm's current and future profit, the security price changes as soon as the market learns of the announcement. Results indicate that, on average, the impact of the concession announcements on stock returns is negative and suggest that the participation in these projects do not add value to the firms.