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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.
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Jennings, Barbara. "Homelessness the private values at the heart of public policy /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Mellon, 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.
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Cunningham, 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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Counselors can work at a variety of locations (Vacc & Loesch, 2000). Yet very little is known about each setting (King, 2007) and what type of counselors would have an optimum fit. Burnout is a pervasive issue in counseling (Lawson, 2007) and providing good-fit information could lessen turnover and burnout from the counseling field. The primary purpose of this study included investigating the differences between job satisfaction and value priorities of counselors in private practice and agency settings. The overarching theoretical framework included Frank Parsons' (1909) 'goodness of fit' theory, which is a person-organizational fit theory for job satisfaction. Schwartz Value Theory (Schwartz, 1992, 1994) provided the trait of the person under investigation: value priorities. The use of global and facet measures of job satisfaction provided the 'good-fit' measure (Brief & Weiss, 2002). The final analysis included one hundred and thirty-five counselors, with seventy-two agency counselors and sixty-three private practitioners. Counselors completed two assessments and a survey in a descriptive correlational design. Two methods of group and e-mail administration produced a 98.7% and 33% response rates, respectively. The data collection instruments included: The Schwartz Value Survey (SVS; Schwartz, 1992), the abridged Job Descriptive Index (aJDI; Stanton et al., 2002), the abridged Job In General Scale (aJIG; Russell et al., 2004), and the Counselor History Questionnaire (Cunningham, 2009). The statistical procedures used to analyze the data included two one-way MANOVAs and four standard multiple regressions. Post-hoc analysis included ANOVA for five subscales on the aJDI measure.; The three research questions included; (a) Are there any differences between job satisfaction between counselors in private practice and agency settings? (b) Are there any differences between value priorities of self-transcendence and self-enhancement between counselors in private practice and agency settings?, and (c) Are there any relationships among the variables of job satisfaction and value priorities of counselors in private practice and agency setting? The first research question was supported, with private practitioners reporting statistically significant higher levels of job satisfaction on two measures, with 12.9 % of the variance explained by the model. Furthermore, the results of the post-hoc included private practitioners reporting statistically significant higher ratings on the aJDI subscales of Work and Income, and Agency counselors reporting higher scores on the Supervision subscale. The second and third research questions were not supported; as there were no differences in value priorities of counselors in private practice and agency. Furthermore, no predictive relationships existed among the variables of work location, value priorities, and job satisfaction. The data suggested that private practitioners experienced a higher level of job satisfaction than their counterparts in agency settings. Furthermore, the non-significant results of value priorities suggested that counselors, as a whole, possess similar value priorities which are not altered by different work settings. Implications for counselors and counselor educators were presented, along with areas of future research.ID: 029094485; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2010.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 178]-198).
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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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This study aims at finding out values in the curriculum of formal schooling and private tutoring in China’s context. Value is an important component of education. As schools’ values have great influence on students’ developing values, it is significant to study values experienced by students in both formal schooling and private tutoring. The present study adopts a qualitative research method with case studies of two secondary students who go to both public formal schools at weekdays and private tutorial institutes at weekends in Guangzhou, China. Data collection consists of documents and interviews.
The present study identifies and analyzes stated values in the curriculum of both formal schooling and private tutoring and values perceived by students. Comparison between these two educational systems is drawn. Also, comparison between stated values and perceived values are being made.
Distinctive differences in values between formal schooling and private tutoring are identified as collectivism vs. individualism, curriculum for moral education vs. nil curriculum for moral education, and non-consumerism vs. consumerism. The two systems also share similar values such as quality and efficiency on teaching and learning and success on scores. There are some gaps between what educational institutes claim and what students perceive in practice. They are all-round development vs. all-subject development on exam success, student-centre development vs. economic efficiency and aspirations in life vs. success in realistic world. The findings suggest a need to rethink the educational aims in an era of transformation in China.published_or_final_version
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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.
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Theories within organisation and management studies have offered several concepts and models which indicate that organisational values are important factor for organisational success, including reputation building. Nevertheless, existing theory is still inadequate to explain the link between organisational values and organisation’s reputation because it does not account for the enabling factors that underlies the two concepts. This study argues that the implementation of organisational values is an important organisational action for acquiring positives perceptions of organisational values which influences employee behaviour and shapes organisational reputation. It specifically shows and elucidates the enabling mechanisms that reinforce organisational values to impact on employee perceptions and behaviour. This is important because when employees share and exemplify the values in their work, they are likely to behave in ways that support the organisation’s strategy which impacts on external perceptions and build reputation. This study employed a qualitative approach through a single in-depth case study. It reflects that the understanding of ‘what is going on’ within organisation is most appropriately achieved by building concepts and constructs from empirical studies. By using semi-structured interviews, focus groups and non-participant observations, the data develops and evolves through the responses and behaviours of participants. Employees were selected through purposive sampling and the snow-balling technique was used to reach customers. The data were structured and coded using thematic analysis. The findings revealed that the process of aligning organisational values and employee values is significant for understanding how organisational values influence employee behaviours, which in turn enable the organisation to build its reputation. The data suggest that four remediation phases: aware, articulate, accept and act, are important for explaining how a gap between organisational values and employee values can be reduced. This remediation process enabled the senior management team and employees to understand how their perceptions and reactions towards the implementation of organisational values impact upon attitudes and behaviours. The findings suggest that organisational values can be reinforced through various social influences. Social interactions can occur in different forms including the involvement of leaders of the management team in creating, exampling and communicating values as well as through expanding the employee’s role in enacting values through empowerment and trust building. However, the findings emphasise that the process of cascading and instilling values through a top-down or hierarchical is no feasible. Instead, it is a hybrid approach that requires employee buy-in and involvement especially in communicating and enacting organisational values. This is an important insight because employees regularly interact with each other which provide a valuable platform to persuade and influence other colleagues to embrace organisational values. Additionally, the findings also build on the reputation literature by demonstrating the role of reciprocity and mimicking in behaviour as the consequences of social interactions within the organisation. The opportunity to regularly interact with colleagues enables employees to want to reciprocate in return for what they have received in the workplace. This tacit understanding of reciprocity for mutual benefit and the tendency to imitate other’s behaviour improves employee perceptions of organisations which in turn contribute towards reputation building. The study advances current understandings in the organisational reputation literature by providing a unique theoretical and empirical insight into how organisational values can impact on reputation building. It also highlights the important role of internal mechanisms for shaping both internal perceptions and behaviour as well as external perceptions of organisations.
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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.
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Tam, Cindy Woon-ling. "Parental choice of private primary schools in Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9982.
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The purpose of this study is to identify and examine the factors that are affecting Chinese parental decisions to enroll their children in local private non-profit Christian primary schools in Hong Kong. Two research instruments were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data from parents. These include the questionnaire survey and the follow-up telephone interviews. A total of 1404 questionnaires were given out, to three different schools, with a return rate of 82%. A total of 59 parents who returned their questionnaires were interviewed for explanation of their responses. Documentary analyses were conducted to assess whether or not the case schools are in line with the parents' expressed preferences. The study identifies three leading criteria which parents use in the selection of a private primary school. The "academic-centered" aspects and the "child-centered" aspects (Woods, Bagley and Glatter, 1998) have been found to be parents' major concerns and they are closely linked to teacher attitudes which parents value highly. The selection criteria were perceived to be influenced by traditional Chinese cultural values on education and character development. A parent-school interaction pattern has been established in this study. It reflects the concern of parents on the effectiveness of the school in enhancing students' discipline and academic performance through teachers with positive attitudes. Common parental school choice factors are examined and discussed. The study established that parents perceived positive teacher attitudes to be interconnected with student's behavioural and academic performance. It also established that parents who perceived the effectiveness of Chinese cultural values on education also perceived improvements in child's behavioural and academic performance. This study provides school administrators with additional understanding of the interconnecting relations between children's school performance and teacher attitudes. A model of private school choice framework was created to show the interactions among parents, teachers, students and the school management.
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So, 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.
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Yao, 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.
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Kadyakapita, 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.
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One of the organizational change technologies developed in response to the inherent weaknesses of the scientific and classical management theories is organization development (0D). The theories grew out of research experiments in change and training in intergroup relations conducted by Kurt Lewin in 1946 in the United States of America. They have been further developed by other researchers and applied to organizations since then, and to educational organizations since the 1960s. This study was carried out in the light of what some of the 0D esearchers and consultants observed, namely, that 0D interventions tend to be less successful in organizations outside the USA, especially in developing countries. They attributed the lack of success of the interventions to the nature of 0D theories, the skills, attitudes and behaviour of OD consultants, the nature of organizations and, especially, culture. Some of the OD consultants said the culture of the people in developing countries is unreceptive to the values which underpin OD theories. I carried out this study to investigate the work-related values of managers in an educational organization in Malawi, and assess the implications of their values for OD interventions. I used a qualitative case study method and the interview technique to gather data for the study. I also used observation and document analysis techniques to supplement the interview technique. The results of the study indicate that most of the work-related values of the managers closely match the values of OD theories. The findings contradict what some of the OD researchers and consultants said about the culture of the people in developing countries. Hence, OD consultants need to investigate the work-related values of the gatekeepers of cli nt organizations and design and implement OD interventions that fit the interests of the gatekeepers.
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Boguslavsky, 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.
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In recent years, South Africa has seen increasing cultural diversification with regard to the appointment of managers in private healthcare facilities. However, research conducted in this area remains extremely limited. The aim of the present study was to explore and describe cultural values and leadership styles of middle managers at a private sector hospital in the Eastern Cape. Hofstede’s (1980, a ) model of cultural values served as a theoretical framework to conceptualise this study. The study was qualitative in nature and made use of in-depth research interviews conducted with a diverse sample of middle managers. The researcher made use of homogeneous and convenience sampling and utilised five participants. The qualitative data was analysed using Tesch’s (1990, in De Vos, 2002) method of analysis. Results revealed that despite the differences in personal culture, most of the managers are similar in their leadership styles and are also affected by the organizational culture. The results of the study contribute to a better understanding of the influence of cultural values and leadership styles in South Africa and will thereby benefit health institutions in their dealings with their modern day multi-cultural management staff.
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Helmlinger, 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/.
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Evidence suggests that public research universities, especially land grant institutions, can be instrumental in supporting a new kind of economic vitality. The university can serve as a ready pipeline for discovering, and then commercializing, new knowledge for industries. Meanwhile, companies that locate a business on a university campus are willing to pay a premium, because locating their business within close proximity to a university and its resources provides value to the business. This collaborative process of companies working closely with universities, the essence of strategic alliance theory, allows for interactive consumption of intellectual assets. These collaborations can be quite resource-intensive and can be better managed by finding ways to make the process more efficient. Accordingly, the overall purpose of this research is (1) to better understand the factors involved in the creation of a series of these public/private strategic alliances and (2) to find ways to make the process more efficient and effective.
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Mureddu, 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/.
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Gonzalez, 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.
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This thesis re-examines the purpose and value of New England women's local color fiction, asserting that local color functions as the groundwork on which the standards and practices of literary realism are based and as the way that nineteenth-century women writers could promote their domestic ministry. Furthermore, the thesis maintains that Stowe, Freeman, and Jewett utilized literary realism to publicize alternative theologies and progressive communities.
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Stetler, 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/.
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Kokt, 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.
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Published ArticleIn 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.
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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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Environmental quality is a construct that has currency at the interface between science and policyâ it is used both to describe current conditions as well as prescribe desired future conditions. However, environmental quality has a multiplicity of definitions, owing to: a) the fact that there are a number of terms (or â sub constructsâ ) taken to be synonymous with environmental quality (i.e. environmental health, sustainability, biodiversity, integrity, and the like), and b) the fact that each of these sub constructs, in turn, have multiple meanings. Many in the field of natural sciences have been working on this problem of ambiguityâ attempting to develop precise and powerful definitions. Still others argue that environmental quality is a concept open to societal negotiation (in addition to scientific discovery). In this thesis, I argue that environmental quality can be understood and discussed by examining understandings of Nature and evaluations for Nature that seem to contribute to the ambiguity of meanings and outcomes for environmental quality.
To reach these conclusions, I interviewed 24 stakeholders who represented a broad range of concerns about and interests in environmental quality on private forest land in Southwest Virginia. I reviewed nearly 300 pages of interview text, looking for emerging themes and structures from their hour-long (on average) discussions of environmental quality. I found that among these 24 stakeholders, there were indeed, many ways of defining environmental quality (i.e. health, biodiversity, site productivity, et cetera). Additionally, I found that these different definitions for environmental quality seem to correlate with different understandings of Nature (what is Nature like?) and different values for Nature (how should Nature be used?) I conclude by discussing these implications, using examples from forestry outreach and extension.Master of Science
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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/.
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Public concern with respect to declining traditional values, character, and family structure in the midst of increased crime, violence, and drug use have brought American education into the political arena and under intense scrutiny. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not differences exist in the values fostered in private schools, public choice schools and public attendance-zone schools and whether or not there are differences in the values that are identified by students as compared with teachers. The theoretical framework for the study is based upon the beliefs that values form the foundation of human behavior and that schools influence the values of societies in which they exist.
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Ji, 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/.
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Based on the literature of SDM (strategic decision-making), cultural studies, and international entry mode, this study examines the effects of managerial cultural values and characteristics of SDMP (strategic decision-making process) on the Chinese private firms’ international entry mode decisions. Although the international entry mode decision is one of most frequently studied strategic decisions in the domain of international business, prior studies tend to neglect the effects of the decision-maker and decision-making process by assuming a rational decision model employed in the entry mode decision-making. However, SDM literature indicates that the decision-maker and decision process also play important roles in making a strategic decision. In order to address two aforementioned less explored elements, this study develops an integrative framework by introducing managerial cultural values - Confucian dynamism - and characteristics of SDMP into the extant rational framework to explain Chinese firms’ international entry mode decisions. This study adopts a mixed-method research approach by employing the survey method as the main design, supplemented by a follow-up case study method. Following a pilot paired questionnaire mailing, a large-scale mail survey was carried out in China, which generated 233 usable replies. CFA (confirmatory factor analysis) and binary logistical regression techniques were used to conduct construct validation and hypothesis testing respectively. In order to further understand the phenomenon in the real setting, a case study approach was conducted in four Chinese firms, which used different entry modes in their most important international entries. The findings of this study largely confirm the theoretical arguments of SDM literature and cultural studies that managerial value and decision process affect the outcome of strategic decision. Confucian dynamism was found to have both direct and moderating effects on the international entry mode decision. Characteristics of SDMP were also found to exert a moderating role in adjusting the effect of managerial value on the perceived situation. The evidence of case study also reflects that managers with varying degrees of Confucian dynamism tend to evaluate situational conditions differently, and different decision process dimensions are likely to limit or increase the chance of the subjective treatment of situational information. The major contribution of this study is that seemingly for the first time, Confucian dynamism, a traditional Chinese cultural trait, was found to have a directly negative influence and a moderating effect on international entry mode decision. In addition, characteristics of SDMP also were found to play an important role in adjusting the cultural preferential treatment of situational information. In short, besides the impacts from environmental and firm conditions, this study found that the decision-maker and the SDMP can also explain entry modes.
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LEIPOLDT, 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.
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This is a cross-national qualitative study with the purpose of obtaining perspectives held by people with quadriplegia and leading figures in disability movements in the Netherlands and Australia on the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EPAS). A disability voice is not prominent in public debate on EPAS in Australia or the Netherlands, even though people with disabilities are often thought to be vulnerable in relation to EPAS policies. Disability perspectives are potentially valuable in illuminating issues in relation to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, because issues of dependence, independence, and individual autonomy play important roles in relation to both EPAS and to living with disability. The study's methodology uses a phenomenological approach and incorporates aspects of heuristics and grounded theory. Its conceptual framework incorporates MacIntyre's (1999) theory of acknowledged dependency and vulnerability; Habermas' (1989) theory of knowledge; and Festinger's (1959) theory of cognitive dissonance. The main sample of twenty people with quadriplegia (the grassroots sample) was interviewed in the Netherlands and in Australia.
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Buening, 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.
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Wegmann, 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.
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The aim of this thesis is to develop efficient and practically useful Bayesian methods for statistical inference in structural second-price auctions. The models are applied to a carefully collected coin auction dataset with bids and auction-specific characteristics from one thousand Internet auctions on eBay. Bidders are assumed to be risk-neutral and symmetric, and compete for a single object using the same game-theoretic strategy. A key contribution in the thesis is the derivation of very accurate approximations of the otherwise intractable equilibrium bid functions under different model assumptions. These easily computed and numerically stable approximations are shown to be crucial for statistical inference, where the inverse bid functions typically needs to be evaluated several million times. In the first paper, the approximate bid is a linear function of a bidder's signal and a Gaussian common value model is estimated. We find that the publicly available book value and the condition of the auctioned object are important determinants of bidders' valuations, while eBay's detailed seller information is essentially ignored by the bidders. In the second paper, the Gaussian model in the first paper is contrasted to a Gamma model that allows intrinsically non-negative common values. The Gaussian model performs slightly better than the Gamma model on the eBay data, which we attribute to an almost normal or at least symmetrical distribution of valuations. The third paper compares the model in the first paper to a directly comparable model for private values. We find many interesting empirical regularities between the models, but no strong and consistent evidence in favor of one model over the other. In the last paper, we consider auctions with both private-value and common-value bidders. The equilibrium bid function is given as the solution to an ordinary differential equation, from which we derive an approximate inverse bid as an explicit function of a given bid. The paper proposes an elaborate model where the probability of being a common value bidder is a function of covariates at the auction level. The model is estimated by a Metropolis-within-Gibbs algorithm and the results point strongly to an active influx of both private-value and common-value bidders.At 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.
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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.
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We study the effects of the recent economic crisis on firms' bidding behavior and markups in sealed bid auctions. Using data from Austrian construction procurements, we estimate bidders' construction costs within a private value auction model. We find that markups of all bids submitted decrease by 1.5 percentage points in the recent economic crisis, markups of winning bids decrease by 3.3 percentage points. We also find that without the government stimulus package this decrease would have been larger. These two pieces of evidence point to pro-cyclical markups. (authors' abstract)
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KIM, DONG-HYUK. "Bayesian Econometrics for Auction Models." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193663.
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This dissertation develops Bayesian methods to analyze data from auctions and produce policy recommendations for auction design. The essay, "Auction Design Using Bayesian Methods," proposes a decision theoretic method to choose a reserve price in an auction using data from past auctions. Our method formally incorporates parameter uncertainty and the payoff structure into the decision procedure. When the sample size is modest, it produces higher expected revenue than the plug-in methods. Monte Carlo evidence for this is provided. The second essay, "Flexible Bayesian Analysis of First Price Auctions Using Simulated Likelihood," develops an empirical framework that fully exploits all the shape restrictions arising from economic theory: bidding monotonicity and density affiliation. We directly model the valuation density so that bidding monotonicity is automatically satisfied, and restrict the parameter space to rule out all the nonaffiliated densities. Our method uses a simulated likelihood to allow for a very exible specification, but the posterior analysis is exact for the chosen likelihood. Our method controls the smoothness and tail behavior of the valuation density and provides a decision theoretic framework for auction design. We reanalyze a dataset of auctions for drilling rights in the Outer Continental Shelf that has been widely used in past studies. Our approach gives significantly different policy prescriptions on the choice of reserve price than previous methods, suggesting the importance of the theoretical shape restrictions. Lastly, in the essay, "Simple Approximation Methods for Bayesian Auction Design," we propose simple approximation methods for Bayesian decision making in auction design problems. Asymptotic posterior distributions replace the true posteriors in the Bayesian decision framework, which are typically a Gaussian model (second price auction) or a shifted exponential model (first price auction). Our method first approximates the posterior payoff using the limiting models and then maximizes the approximate posterior payoff. Both the approximate and exact Bayes rules converge to the true revenue maximizing reserve price under certain conditions. Monte Carlo studies show that my method closely approximates the exact procedure even for fairly small samples.
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Ligneres, 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.
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Le groupe socioprofessionnel des agriculteurs a connu depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale un changement socio-économique important. Le point de départ de cette thèse – à l’articulation des démarches hypothético-déductive et empirico-inductive – est de se demander s’il ne reste pas des traces, plus ou moins nettes, de la culture paysanne dans la configuration des valeurs du monde agricole contemporain. Peut-on parler de la fin de la culture paysanne comme certains chercheurs parlent de la fin de la classe ouvrière ? L’enquête de terrain se fonde sur l’approche qualitative de données recueillies par entretiens semi-directifs et libres ainsi que par des observations directes et participantes et des films sociologiques. Leur analyse a reposé sur l’élaboration, au préalable, d’un référent culturel commun construit à partir d’un syncrétisme des valeurs anciennes et nouvelles, permettant de construire le référent culturel « agripaysan » et confirmant ainsi l’hypothèse d’un syncrétisme des valeurs. A l’intérieur du référent culturel commun au corpus étudié, les valeurs ont été caractérisées en trois groupes : les « valeurs identitaires et distinctives », les « valeurs nécessaires » et les « valeurs extraprofessionnelles ». L’analyse des données a également mis en évidence une appropriation différenciée du référent culturel « agripaysan » qui est explicitée à l’aide d’une typologie en trois idéaux-types : paysan-agriculteur, chef d’entreprise-paysan et agri-manager. Plus largement, cette thèse interroge la culture en tant que mode de vie d’un groupe et s’inscrit, à la fois, dans la sociologie des modes de vie et dans la sociologie du travail, sans oublier la sociologie ruraleThe 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
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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.
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Papouli, 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/.
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This thesis explores Greek social work students' perceptions of the development of their professional values and ethics in the workplace during their professional practice placement. To accomplish its goals, the thesis includes a literature review and employs a qualitative exploratory research design with descriptive elements positioned within the constructivist paradigm. This research design allows the researcher to explore and describe a topic - social work values and ethics - that is generally under-researched in the existing literature, as well as being complex in nature and difficult to study. Data were collected using the critical incident technique (CIT). This method took the form of a written questionnaire (the CIT questionnaire) completed by 32 students between 11th and 25th October, 2010. The data were inductively analysed using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. SPSS and SPAD software packages were also used to analyse the numerical and textual data respectively. The study findings underline the vital role of the workplace as a social space for students to learn and develop their professional social work values and ethics. They also highlight the complexity of implementing social work values and ethics in the different workplace environments that students, as trainees, are placed for their professional practice due to their situation-specific nature. Further, the study reveals a number of factors that, from the students' point of view, are important in applying and upholding professional ethical standards in social work practice. These factors are associated with: a) the need to practice social work values and ethics in the workplace on a daily basis in order to keep them alive and active; b) the students' own contribution to upholding ethical standards; c) the role practice instructors/supervisors play in the transmission of social work values to students during their placements; d) the importance of ethical collaboration inside and outside the workplace to achieve the best practices for clients; e) the client's behaviour as a determinant of the ethical practice of social workers in the workplace; and f) the importance of the ethics of management (including the political affiliation of the heads of organisations) in creating and sustaining an ethical work/learning environment. The study suggests that all the factors mentioned above-to a greater or lesser degree- should be considered important elements to take into account in the planning and development of values-based social work education programmes. Special attention should be paid to workplace conditions that can hinder or support the development of values-based social work practice. As the study clearly shows, daily ethical practice in social work, students as individuals, the role of practice instructors, ethical workplace collaboration, client behaviour, and the ethics of management are crucial components for building upon the ethical skills taught in the classroom and developing ethically informed professional identities in real-life workplace situations. The thesis concludes that the critical incidents experienced by students are a valuable source of knowledge and understanding of the development of social work values and ethics in professional practice. In this study, indeed, students gained valuable insights into their ethics development process in practice contexts, from both positive and negative critical incidents alike.
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Leipoldt, 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.
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This is a cross-national qualitative study with the purpose of obtaining perspectives held by people with quadriplegia and leading figures in disability movements in the Netherlands and Australia on the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EPAS). A disability voice is not prominent in public debate on EPAS in Australia or the Netherlands, even though people with disabilities are often thought to be vulnerable in relation to EPAS policies. Disability perspectives are potentially valuable in illuminating issues in relation to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, because issues of dependence, independence, and individual autonomy play important roles in relation to both EPAS and to living with disability. The study's methodology uses a phenomenological approach and incorporates aspects of heuristics and grounded theory. Its conceptual framework incorporates MacIntyre's (1999) theory of acknowledged dependency and vulnerability; Habermas' (1989) theory of knowledge; and Festinger's (1959) theory of cognitive dissonance. The main sample of twenty people with quadriplegia (the grassroots sample) was interviewed in the Netherlands and in Australia.
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Ivanov, 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.
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Fontenele, 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.
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Tese de Doutoramento em Administração Pública, especialidade em Administração e Políticas PúblicasA 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.
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A travers cette thèse, notre objectif de départ a été de comprendre en quoi l'atteinte des objectifs sociaux des PPP dépend des mesures prises par les gestionnaires publics dans le cadre de l'exercice de leurs rôles et responsabilités en matière de contrôle.C'est pourquoi il a été question pour nous de comprendre comment les pouvoirs publics au travers des dispositifs institutionnels et contractuels ont exercé ce rôle de contrôle sur le partenaire privé. Sur la base d'une telle orientation, il a été souscrit aux méthodes qualitatives notamment à l'étude de cas pour appréhender le contrôle dans les PPP. Sur l'institutionnalisation des axes comme la prise en compte de toutes les parties prenantes, les différences d'objectifs, les rôles et responsabilités, l'absence de hiérarchie ont été tour à tour analysés. Ce qui a permis d'en faire des préalables des PPP. S'agissant de la contractualisation, il a fallu s'intéresser aux modèles de contrôle qui étaient basés sur la nécessité d'apporter des corrections au système, et sur ceux qui créent les conditions d'imputabilité. En conclusion de ce point, il apparaitra que les contrats devraient s'appuyer sur des éléments de performance. Enfin, sur le traitement des divergences entre partenaires les différences d'objectifs, de valeurs et de caractéristiques, l'opportunisme des partenaires surtout privés, la nécessité d'une alliance et d'une coopération, le pragmatisme des partenaires ont été mis en avant. Autrement dit dans les PPP, il est nécessaire de procéder au management de telles divergencesThrough 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
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Boutin, Nathalie. "Management territorial et conflits environnementaux industriels : à la recherche de la biodiversité." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0596.
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La question de la biodiversité apparue au premier plan des préoccupations environnementales au même titre que le changement climatique a fait l'objet au niveau mondial d'une volumineuse littérature et de nombreux rapports alarmistes. Selon que l'on regarde la question du point de vue des sciences de la vie ou des sciences sociales on dispose de vues complémentaires mais aussi contradictoires. On envisage la question de la biodiversité en particulier méditerranéenne sous l'angle de sa gestion territoriale axée sur l'étude comparative de plusieurs cas localisés au sein d'espaces marqués par d'intenses interactions hommes-milieux où la prise en compte de cet enjeu est questionnée dans un contexte décisionnel conflictuel. Cette thèse porte sur le management territorial et sur l'approche de la biodiversité qui ressort des pratiques en rapport de l'état de la biodiversité, des phénomènes qui la menacent. On confronte ce savoir avec les pratiques managériales quand celles-ci sont contraintes par des événements conflictuels révélant les valeurs de multiples parties prenantes. On en déduit trois modèles de relations « Homme-Nature » et les implications de régulation qui en découlent et on fait ressortir les paradoxes des politiques publiques orientées sur la biodiversité. On montre alors le caractère déterminant de ces modèles, explicites et implicites, mobilisés par les décideurs aux niveaux individuel et institutionnel. On apporte ainsi un éclairage à la faiblesse de l'institutionnalisation de l'enjeu de la biodiversité, balbutiante. Ceci nous amène à fournir des recommandations pour une intégration de cet enjeu dans les pratiques managériales tant publiques que privéesThe 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
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Molinier, Juliette. "Le partage en droit fiscal." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BORD0258/document.
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L’indivision prend fin par le partage. Le partage substitue des droits privatifs à une propriétécollective sur un bien ou une masse de biens qui est fractionnée.L’indivision est présentée traditionnellement comme un état éphémère, mauvais, auquel il fautmettre fin. Des règles juridiques spécifiques au partage ont alors été mises en place ; lafiscalité de l’enregistrement a assuré l’accompagnement de ces règles.Aujourd’hui le partage se conçoit en valeur. Les règles du partage ont donc évolué.Cette évolution n’est pas appréhendée par le droit fiscal. Le traitement des soultes, desindemnités de réduction ou de rapport est parfois contestable.En outre, l’administration fiscale maintient encore la distinction entre partage pur et simple etavec soulte, distinction qui n’emporte aucune conséquence en droit civil et qui ne se justifieplus aujourd’hui.Le partage a un effet déclaratif et rétroactif. Chacun des attributaires est réputé avoir été seulpropriétaire du bien mis dans son lot.Le régime des plus-values des particuliers s’est calqué sur cette analyse qui par voie deconséquences, fait fi du partage et des soultes ou indemnités qui sont versées par l’attributairedu bien. L’analyse juridique du partage ignore l’aspect économique du partage.Quant à la fiscalité professionnelle, les règles sont complexes et disparates, pasnécessairement fondées sur l’analyse juridique ; le traitement fiscal du partage est alorsd’autant plus compliquéJoint 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
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Hahn, Moritz. "Essays on Private Equity Value Creation." Diss., lmu, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-116129.
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Richards, Andriette. "Creating value in private equity investments." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59758.
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Private equity has shown persistence in creating value in underlying portfolio investments as evidenced from its outperformance of corporate counterparts. The superior returns that these investments achieve have been attributed to a combination of quantitative and qualitative factors, including financial engineering, operational improvements and strong capabilities in composing and effectively structuring the management function of underlying investments.
This research set out to identify and quantify the relative importance and preferred levels of features, both quantitative and qualitative, that are deemed by private equity practitioners to create value in underlying private equity investments. The research was conducted using a mixed-method approach with conjoint analysis, which is often used in decision-making research, as the main tool and basis for the design and data analysis.
The quantitative results of the research showed that the quality of a management team is the key feature that private equity professionals deem important and together with Corporate Governance and Incentive structures, is the management platform that drives value creation. The results also showed that Financial value engineering continues to play a strong role, but that Operational improvements take a small leading position in creating value. Finally, the composition of each category's underlying features appears to have distinct features when compared to the literature reviewed.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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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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This thesis is about the economic aspects of public procurement of services through auctionsin Sweden. It focuses on two different institutions, auctions used to find foste r-parents forboarded out children in the 19th century, and auctions of cleaning service contracts in the 20 thcentury. I n both cases, the contracting entity is the municipality or its representative, thelowest bidder wins the auction, and is paid in accordance with his/her bid.In the child auctions, c hildren were allotted to foster-parents by means of an open biddingprocess, the descending English auction, where the bids were given continuously to theauctioneer. In modern public procurement sealed bids ar e used in accordance with the firstprice,sealed bid auction. The first part of this thesis is about price formation in the childauctions and a study is made of the children who were auctioned several times, indicatingasymmetric information among bidders or adverse selection in this market. These subjects arestudied using field data on 601 child auctions held in Northern Sweden during the period 1863to 1889. The empirical findings in the first paper suggest that the foster-parents had a cleareconomic motive in these auctions. The child characteristics significantly affect the amount ofcompensation paid to the foster-parent. There is also evidence that farmers preferred older,more productive children. The second paper studies whether a re-auctioned child commandeda higher or lower price than a child that was not re-auctioned. The results indicate some formof asymmetric information because foster-parents demanded a higher level of compensationfor a re-auctioned child. The results also suggest that the probability that a child was reauctionedincreased if he/she was not healthy.The third paper in the thesis discusses a kind of "paradox". Although there is a competitiveeffect on the bids in the auction of cleaning service contracts, the contracting entity has anoption, given by law, to restrict the number of bidders. In th is paper, an implementation costis introduced fo r the contracting entity to justify such a restriction. The results, based onSwedish municipality data, indicate that contract and municipality characteristics, assumed toaffect the implementation cost, affect the volume of the procurement, and the number ofbidders, but not necessarily the choice of allocation mechanism. The final paper studiesregional differences in bids, costs, and competition in municipal procurement using the samedata as in paper [3]. The results show higher estimated costs for completing the contract, butlower estimated mean bids in the major city area of Stockholm compared with the res t of thecountry. This is explained by lower profit margins and higher operational costs in the majorcity area. An analysis is also carried out of why the lowest bidder is not always the contractedbidder.Härtill 4 delar.
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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.
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Terzic, 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.
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Becker, Alexander. "Private Equity Buyout Fonds - Value Creation in Portfoliounternehmen." Bern Stuttgart Wien Haupt, 2009. http://d-nb.info/995567328/04.
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Montandon, Pascal. "Measuring Risk of Private Equity Portfolios." St. Gallen, 2008. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/02603348002/$FILE/02603348002.pdf.
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Nery, 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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Over the past decades the traditional development agenda of a donor-beneficiary model has been replaced by one builton partnerships with mutual benefits. In recent years the paradigms of ‘aid effectiveness’ and ‘developmenteffectiveness’, characterized by a set of new and emerging actors that play an important role in development and arenewed focus on economic growth, have emerged. One of the actors that is becoming more important is the privatesector, as they increasingly have the opportunity to take on a new profound role as development driver. While there hasbeen a trend of decreasing government spending for development aid, the private sector has considerable financial assetsat their disposal. However, the financial contribution of the private sector in sectors related to the SustainableDevelopment Goals remains low. Public-private partnerships are seen as a way that can attract the private sector indoing investments in sustainable development. Especially for global agri-food chains, partnerships have the ambitionto bring about sustainable change. In order to attract the private sector in such collaborations, an understanding of theirinformation needs regarding public-private partnerships and sustainability is necessary. The focus of this research wasto explain those information needs. As part of a case study research, interviews with the private sector were conducted.To gain additional insights, web testing tasks were conducted with the same interviewees. It is found that p the two mainreasons to join in a partnership for the private partners of this case study are because it is a platform for collaborationand knowledge exchange. Understanding these motivations helps to articulate a message that is seen as valuable. Next,with regard to sustainability interests, these mainly fall under the three pillars of sustainability – economic,environmental, social – but it was also found that the companies can use information on traceability and connectingtheir work to the Sustainable Development Goals as ways to communicate about their sustainability efforts. Relatingthis to the findings on information needs and how to communicate about such topics, the main findings suggest that theinformation should be concrete, result-oriented and proof of impact. In general, the information needs of the privatesector all to less or more extent have to do with continuation of the business, while also interest is shown for makingsustainability a viable business case and being a thought leader on sustainability topics. These findings are parallel tothe dominant paradigms of development effectiveness and aid effectiveness that continue to shape the agenda ondevelopment collaboration.I cannot select the correct organization/department for my supervisor and evaluator as both ar connected to SLU, not UU.
For Cecilia: Department of Forest Products at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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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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Academic literature on the analysis of value creation in private equity industry is still in its infancy. The approach to value attribution is still a contended subject by both academic and professional writers. The purpose of this research was to determine how South African Private Equity industry generates value in portfolio companies. This was achieved by gathering 24 transactions from institutional investors and private equity firms and disaggregating their returns into value drivers. Identified value drivers were financial leverage, revenue growth, EBITDA multiples and EBITDA margin. Contrary to the common belief that the private equity model is more dependent on cutting costs and less on growing businesses, the findings of the study revealed that revenue growth was the biggest relative driver of value while operational efficiency, the least. Results regarding the importance of financial leverage in value creation in the last 10 years could not confirm the popular argument which states that as the private equity model matures the industry is moving towards other value levers. While descriptive statistics confirmed that the level of gearing and size of companies influence the relative importance of EBITDA margin and revenue growth, results from statistical tests were in several cases inconclusive.Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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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.
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Mestrado em Economia e Política da Energia e do AmbienteO 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.
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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.
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Bakgrund: De enskilda privata skogsägarna är en heterogen grupp som har genomgått en förändring under de senaste åren. Olika karaktärsdrag och olika förhållanden till skogen leder till olika värden med ägandet. Studien undersöker skogsägarnas incitament och beslutsfattande genom att studera skogsägarnas socioemotionella värden med hjälp av SEW-teorin. Syfte: Studien förklarar (1) vilka förutsättningar hos skogsägare som leder till socioemotionellt välstånd och (2) hur det socioemotionella välståndet påverkar beslutsfattande. Metod: Studien baseras på en kvantitativ tvärsnittsdesign för att undersöka studiens syfte. Hypoteserna har utvecklats utifrån SEW-teorin och forskning kring skogsägande. För att testa hypoteserna har en enkätundersökning genomförts i samarbete med Södra Skogsägarna. Slutsats: Studien bevisar att SEW-teorin är en applicerbar teori på skogsägare. Det visar att det socioemotionella välståndet påverkar skogsägarnas incitament och beslutsfattande. Studiens resultat visar även att deras socioemotionella och ekonomiska värden ökar tillsammans. Studien finner vissa indikatorer på faktorer som genererar SEW samt finner flera effekter av SEW på skogsverksamheten.Background: 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.
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Olejnik, Lukasz. "Measuring the Privacy Risks and Value of Web Tracking." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GRENM002.
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Les nouvelles technologies introduisent de nouveaux problèmes et risques. Par exemple, les internautes sont constamment tracés et profilés sur l'Internet. Ce profilage permet aux divers sites de personaliser et ainsi d'améliorer le service qu'ils fournissent à chaque internaute. Cependant ce profilage introduit aussi des problèmes d'intimité et de protection de la vie privée. Il est d'ailleurs reconnu que ces données personnelles sont souvent échangées, voire vendues, et qu'il existe une vraie economie des données personnelles. Cet thèse étudie comment ces données personnelles, et en particulier les historique Web - c'est à dire la liste des sites Internet visités par un internaute-, sont collectées, échangées et vendues. Elle propose une analyse de la vie privée des systèmes de vente aux enchères des publicités ciblés. Elle montre comment les différents acteurs de la publicité en ligne collectent et s'echangent les données personnelles, et étudie les risques pour les Internautes. Elle propose également une analyse économique et montre, notamment, que les données sont bradées pour quelques millièmes de dollarsNew 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
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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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The study explored how private firms and their constituents capture value through Public-Private Collaboration (PPC) in South Africa. Partnerships are touted as key enablers of firm innovation and value creation in an increasingly complex global context. Yet, very few studies have provided the evidence base of value creation and capture beyond the ‘feel good’ process considering integrated value for firms. Nor is there clarity on how value can be planned for, operationalised and measured for improved management practice. This study progressed knowledge on practice and evaluation of PPC processes for firms by going beyond traditional linear models that have been found to be deficient in complex contexts.
A qualitative case study was explored in the mining sector to provide richer and deeper insights into PPC processes from a firm perspective in its collaboration with government entities. The study provided the evidence base and indicators of value creation and capture for a private firm through a PPC process, exposed generalised assumptions, disaggregated value dimensions, and foregrounded a foundational multi-dimensional model and partnership value framework.
The study contributed an integrated strategic value lens and the choices made in aggregation and disaggregation of value constructs in diverse contexts. It demonstrated new combinations of constructs whereby PPC processes created sources of competitive, collaborative and societal advantage for firms through mediated pathways. Contextualised concepts and data gathering of use value, exchange value and transformative value offered the evidence called for on value capture through PPC processes. It revealed the need to disaggregate value dimensions such as intellectual, relational and political value from social value. The role of PPC processes in Balancing Accountability between public and private sectors was suggested as a concept in progressing the field of cross-sector governance.
A multi-dimensional model is presented reflecting the iterative and evolving nature of PPC processes and the interaction between value creation and value capture. An extended value indicator framework aims to aid in operationalising the assessment of PPC processes. The study promotes PPC processes as a mechanism to operationalise concepts such as Creating Shared Value (CSV) and respond to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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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.
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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.
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Mestrado em FinançasEm 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.