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Prencipe, Andrea. "Divide and rule : firm boundaries in the aircraft engine industry". Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311415.
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This thesis investigates the changing boundaries of the firm. Drawing on a study of the aircraft engine industry, it explores the managerial choices faced by firms in the development of complex products. The thesis builds on the literature on the resourcebased view of the firm, and studies on inter-firm division of labour. It integrates comparative quantitative analysis and case study methods. The thesis shows that despite the increasing use of collaborative agreements, aircraft engine manufacturers maintain a broad and deep set of in-house technological capabilities. Collaborative agreements are used to complement in-house technological capabilities and as a means to maintain systems integration capabilities. The thesis also shows that the aircraft engine industry is characterised by (a) increasing product modularization, often entailing a greater division of labour across firms at the product level, and (b) active co-ordination by engine manufacturers at the technological level. These two phenomena demonstrate that the technological boundaries of the firm differ fundamentally from the boundaries of the firm as defined by make-buy decisions. Outsourcing of components does not necessarily entail outsourcing technologies. These findings challenge current managerial prescriptions that suggest that firms should focus on a few technological capabilities. They also challenge the literature that argues that modularity should inform product design as well as firms' technology bases. The thesis proposes a framework to analyse the boundaries of firms developing complex products. Focusing on their role as systems integrators, it identifies two key dimensions of systems integration: synchronic and diachronic. Synchronic systems integration refers to the range of in-house technological capabilities of engine manufacturers required to set the concept design, decompose it, co-ordinate the network of suppliers, and re-compose the engine within a given product architecture. Diachronic systems integration refers to engine manufacturers' capabilities to envisage different paths of product architectures to meet evolving customer and regulatory requirements.
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Duque-Estrada, Elliott Bryce. "Hell Run". Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2016. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/286.
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McLaughlin, Seamus Pius. "Only Our Rivers Run Free". Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 1986. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/761.
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Maben, Sarah Kathleen. "A Mixed Method Analysis of Undergraduate Student-run Public Relations Firms on U.S. College Campuses". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30486/.
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Student-run public relations firms are part of collegiate public relations pedagogy, and this study used a mixed-method approach to analyze such firms on U.S. campuses. A listing of campuses with student-run firms was created as part of this study. Through an online survey questionnaire, advisers from 55 of the 119 student-run firms provided data about firm characteristics and observations about student learning and career development. Multiple correspondence analyses was used to see if the firms grouped into clusters and somewhat aligned with previous research by Lee Bush in 2009. Firms clustered into four groups, with the fourth group representing a mix of the other three. One additional finding was that firm characteristics are more similar than dissimilar even when comparing firms of varying years in operation. Analysis of variance to compare characteristics between different types of firms revealed that one type of firm tended to employ students at a higher average number of hours per week (F = 6.61, eta squared=0.16) and one was more likely to be accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (F = 3.71, eta squared=0.13). Advisers reported mostly positive reflections on observed transformations they see in their student workers and the value of the firm experience including how it helps students in post-graduation job attainment. Responses to a graduate questionnaire is included but, because of low response rate (N = 6), provided only cursory information.
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Maourina, Alexandra, e Nicole Kalinowska. "The Long-Run Performance of Swedish IPOs : Explained in terms of Firm Maturity". Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-325202.
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This paper examines the long-run aftermarket performance of Swedish IPOs between 2000- 2016, including two market downturns (the burst of IT and housing bubble). The main objective is to investigate whether performance is explained in terms of firm maturity, which is the main contribution to existing literature. Hence, the final sample of 96 IPOs is ranked by the level of RE/TA ratio, a categorization defined by the life-cycle theory of dividend payouts proposed by DeAngelo et al. (2006). To assess the long-run performance of the different IPO portfolios, two methodologies are applied: BHAR and the Fama-French Three Factor regression. The main finding is that the Swedish IPOs underperform their benchmark reference portfolios 12, 24 and 36 months after the offering. Young IPOs, with low RE/TA, outperform on a one- year basis while no significant results were found for old IPOs with high RE/TA. On a longer term, young IPOs underperform their benchmarks while old IPOs outperform three years after the initial issue. There is no support that younger IPOs exhibit a higher level of underperformance in comparison to older IPOs in the long-run.
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Watson, Justin. "Hedge fund activism, innovation and firm value". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205534/1/Justin_Watson_Thesis.pdf.
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Using an endogenous growth framework, this thesis models and tests whether hedge fund activists add value by correcting inefficient R&D investment at their targets. While activists are more likely to target firms over-investing in R&D, I find no evidence that suggests they correct inefficient R&D investment despite decreasing R&D expenditure at target firms. Further robustness highlights the negative impact of hedge fund activism on value creation after controlling for the activist’s stated objectives and reputation, quantile treatment effects, and superior stock selection ability. Overall, my research offers new insights into the governance role and value implications of hedge fund activism.
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Brunson, Alicia. "Light, Bright, and Out of Sight: Hollywood’s Representation of the Tragic Mulatto". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407836/.
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The purpose of this research is to examine the longevity of the stereotype of the tragic mulatto in American film history. Specifically, my research focuses on the portrayals and perceptions of biracial actresses. Media informs, entertains, and influences how we, and especially youth, self-identify and interact with others. This research focuses on the portrayal of biracial actresses throughout film history. It is also important in its investigation of the perpetuation of the one-drop rule. In this research, I will examine if historical stereotypes of tragic mulatto are apparent in contemporary Hollywood film. The methodologies used in this research include a content analysis of films with biracial actresses and an online survey of respondents’ perceptions of four actresses. Statistical techniques used for analysis include ordinary least square regression and multinomial logistic regression. Findings suggest that the tragic mulatto stereotype is not blatant in contemporary Hollywood film, but issues of colorism may be apparent.
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Cheng, Mei Ling. "Firm equity decision, disclosure rule and corporate transparency, a revisit of market's use of earnings information". HKBU Institutional Repository, 2020. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/895.
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This paper extends the scope of Earnings per share ("EPS") studies by incorporating Bushman et al. (2004)'s conceptual framework of corporate transparency to illustrate how the disclosure requirement of an accounting rule governing EPS could have far-reaching effects on the information environment in US. Informed participants are having a keener edger over average investors in using EPS as a guide to investment value. EPS signals a summary measure of firm performance to market participants. The market reactions to EPS and change in per share earnings provide a distinct opportunity to gauge the informativeness of earnings. The information role will nevertheless derail whenever there is an equity change. The accounting rule stipulates the use of a theoretical construct, the weighted average number of shares, in the denominator for EPS, which the average investor is unable to interpret as the number of shares at the reporting date is the actual, not average number of shares. Relative to the actual-share EPS, the average-share EPS will either inflate or deflate the per share earnings. The informed investors, who can substitute actual number of shares for the theoretical construct, are hence bestowed by the accounting rule an information advantage over the average investors. Earnings response coefficient is significant with denominator of EPS substituted while the explanatory power of theoretical-denominator EPS abates when it is contemporary with the denominator substituted EPS. Financial analysts' expertise in the provision of idiosyncratic information to the market has been compromised by the average-share EPS, which is reflected heretofore in proforma earnings forecasts errors. Proforma earnings use a numerator different from accounting rules and to further temper the denominator with the actual number of shares will make pro-forma EPS forecast unintelligible to users. The unintended consequence of inflating or deflating the per share earnings misleads average investors in their decision-making process. Analysts should not issue proforma earnings forecast while researchers should abstain from using theoretical-denominator EPS for sample firms with equity change as their policy prescriptions may further aggravate the problem. A simple remedy to change the accounting rule, SFAS No. 128 is eminently anticipated, if not warranted.
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Shah, Latisha. "Institutional Ownership in Relation to the Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation Rule and its Effect on Audit Quality". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1878.
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Previous studies have concluded that mandatory audit firm rotation (MAFR) has not been successful in controlling the outcomes of the auditor-client relationship. Additionally, the literature concludes that high institutional ownership enhances audit quality through monitoring the management-auditor relationship. This paper hypothesizes that better corporate governance in terms of high institutional ownership percentage will enhance audit quality during a MAFR regime. Since countries that have implemented MAFR in the past have their data in their local languages, I use the special case of Arthur Andersen clients based in the US as my treatment group. I carry out a descriptive statistical analysis and run linear OLS regressions with discretionary accruals as a proxy for audit quality as my dependent variable. Results suggest that the percentage of institutional ownership does not have a significant impact on audit quality in a MAFR regime.
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Piriyakul-Frye, Pratanphorn. "Three Essays on The Effects of The Exchange Act Rule 12h-6 on Cross-Listings of Foreign Firms in The U.S. Market". Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1545255172024426.
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Andersson, Daniel, e Jakob Kostet. "Financial Credibility, Financial Constraints and Rule of Law : A quantitative study on international firms". Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-123034.
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Reducing firms’ financial constraints can be an important element for economic growth. Previous scholars have documented various factors that affect firms’ ability to access finance (e.g. Lambert et al., 2007, p. 385). In this study, we investigate the impact of financial reporting credibility in reducing firms’ financial constraints. In addition, we study the role that rule of law at a country level have on the above stated association. We hypothesize that financial reporting credibility decreases firms’ financial constraints. Then, we propose that the ability of financial reporting credibility to reduce financial constraints weakens when rule of law (at a country level) decreases. This is the first study to investigate how the association between financial reporting credibility and financial constraints are affected by rule of law on a country level, to the authors’ knowledge. The study uses 52,381 firms operating in 98 countries that responded to the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys between the time period 2006 to 2015. Financial constraints are measured through a variable that takes into consideration the perceived amount of obstacles firms are facing in their current operations and the proxy for financial credibility is whether firms have been audited or not. Our moderating term is the World Bank’s rule of law index. By using both regression and matching analysis, we find a significant negative association between financial credibility and financial constraints. This indicates that increased financial reporting credibility leads to less financial constraints for firms. For the moderating effect of the rule of law, the results are insignificant. However, we observe that when the level of rule of law is high, increased financial credibility leads to minor improvements in access to external finance.
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Rafferty, Eileen N. "Jimmy Hit His First Home Run". VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/958.
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This document begins with the end of a life and ends with the beginning of hope. It is a brief description of the artist's history, artistic and literary influences, and subsequent works produced during graduate school, specifically Dichotomy, Swan Dive, and Jimmy Hit His First Home Run. Topics discussed include Human Physiology, Transference, Buddhism, and Bubbles. This document was created in Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, Version 11.2.
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Pan, Lei. "Hydrophobic Forces in Wetting Films". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76918.
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Flotation is an important separation process used in the mining industry. The process is based on hydrophobizing a selected mineral using an appropriate surfactant, so that an air bubble can spontaneously adhere on the mineral surface. The bubble-particle adhesion is possible only when the thin film of water between the bubble and particle ruptures, just like when two colloidal particles or air bubbles adhere with each other. Under most flotation conditions, however, both the double-layer and dispersion forces are repulsive, which makes it difficult to model the rupture of the wetting films using the DLVO theory.
In the present work, we have measured the kinetics of film thinning between air bubble and flat surfaces of gold and silica. The former was hydrophobized by ex-site potassium amyl xanthate, while the latter by in-site Octadecyltrimetylammonium chlroride. The kinetics curves obtained with and without theses hydrophobizing agents were fitted to the Reynolds lubrication theory by assuming that the driving force for film thinning was the sum of capillary pressure and the disjoining pressure in a thin film. It was found that the kinetics curves obtained with hydrophilic surfaces can be fitted to the theory with the disjoining pressure calculated from the DLVO theory. With hydrophobized surfaces, however, the kinetics curves can be fitted only by assuming the presence of a non-DLVO attractive force (or hydrophobic force) in the wetting films. The results obtained in the present work shows that long-range hydrophobic forces is responsible for the faster drainage of wetting film.
It is shown that the changes in hydrophobic forces upon the thin water film between air bubble and hydrophobic surface is dependent on hydrophobizing agent concentration, immersion time and the electrolyte concentration in solution. The obtained hydrophobic forces constant in wetting film K132 is compared with the hydrophobic forces constant between two solid surfaces K131 to verify the combining rule for flotation.Master of Science
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Trieloff, Werner Dieter. "The competitive environment and generic strategy of a family run auditing firm in Brazil : a case study / Werner Trieloff". Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4592.
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With the global financial crisis coming to a long awaited, though slow, end and the Fifa Soccer World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympic Games in 2016 having been awarded to Brazil in 2009, 2010 holds many challenges and an ever–diversifying environment in which a Brazilian firm needs to formulate and implement a competitive strategy.
Over the last couple of years, Brazil has been a focus point for investors seeking high growth; however, the complex business environment has been a thorn in many international and national firms' side.
With this complex environment as the starting point and many new opportunities as the future focus, Brazilian firms need to find accurate and relevant information about their environment, the markets, their competitors and their clients in order to choose the best strategy for the achievement of the overall goal of any company - increasing the wealth of the shareholder.
The overall objective of this study is thus to use corporate planning tools to evaluate the internal and external environment of BAF Ltda in order to ensure that the best strategy is chosen and adopted so as to make the most of the opportunities that the coming years will bring.
The planning tools utilised in this study are the SWOT and PEST analysis. Both have formed part of the strategic planning process of many firms over the past century and have proved to be a key part in putting together the information needed from which to build a sustainable strategy. This study evaluates both of these planning tools and applies them to the chosen company for this case study.
Following on the corporate appraisal of the PEST and SWOT techniques, generic strategies are evaluated and suggested based on the information gathered through the analyses.Thesis (M.Com. (Management Accountancy))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.
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Nakauchi, Gene. "Analytical and numerical results for a curvature-driven geometric flow rule". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/127335/1/Gene_Nakauchi_Thesis.pdf.
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This research studies a particular curvature-driven geometric flow rule in the plane using techniques from differential geometry, computational mathematics, and formal asymptotics. The flow rule is a combination of the well-studied curve shortening flow, which is governed by a parabolic system of partial differential equations, and the Eikonal equation, which is governed by a hyperbolic system. The physical motivations for considering our model include propagating fire fronts and phase separation. The focus is on a variety of mathematical problems related to the flow rule, such as the explicit form of travelling wave solutions, linear stability, self-intersection, singularity formation, and the extinction problem for convex curves.
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Galvão, Jorge Octávio Lavocat. "O neoconstitucionalismo e o fim do estado de direito". Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2134/tde-29082013-113523/.
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Na última década emergiu na academia brasileira um movimento doutrinário denominado Neoconstitucionalismo, que advoga a adoção de uma série de posturas interpretativas que conferem maior liberdade aos juízes ao decidirem os casos constitucionais no intuito de promover transformação social pelo Direito. A partir de uma reconstrução interpretativa do ideal político Estado de Direito, procura-se avaliar o impacto das teses defendidas pelo modelo decisório neoconstitucionalista, concluindo-se que nas sociedades democráticas contemporâneas, em que há profundos desacordos morais, a sua adoção é inadequada por implicar violações à dignidade humana.In the last decade, a legal movement known as neoconstitutionalism has emerged in the Brazilian legal academy. It advocates the adoption of a series of interpretative attitudes which confer a wide margin of discretion to judges when deciding constitutional cases with the aim of achieving social transformation through law. Relying on a reconstructive interpretation of the Rule of Law political ideal, this work aims to assess the impacts of the thesis defended by the neoconstitutionalist adjudicative model. It concludes, at the end, that in contemporary democratic societies, where people deeply disagree on moral regards, the adoption of neoconstitucionalism is inadequate in virtue of the violations it infringes upon human dignity.
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Pyykkö, E. (Elina). "Stock market response to research and development expenditures of the firm in the context of mergers and acquisitions". Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2011. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514293443.
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This dissertation investigates the success of technology M&As. The research question is approached through four separate empirical essays, each of which assesses a different but interrelated issue of value creation of technology M&As. The approach used throughout the dissertation is to consider the motives of improving acquirer’s R&D activity through the acquisition of a technology firm and stress the role of the interaction between acquirer’s and target’s resources. The first two essays investigate the valuation consequences of M&As, while the following two essays examine pricing implications of M&As.
The results indicate that technology M&As are successful in enhancing the acquiring firm’s R&D activities to the extent that it manifests as an increase in the stock market valuation of acquirer’s R&D spending and its higher future profitability. The results also demonstrate that investors do not fully recognize these benefits at the announcement of M&A. Therefore investors benefit from technology M&As in the long run when these benefits begin to materialize. Furthermore, the results show that even when compared to other possible motives, enhancing acquirer’s R&D activities is an important and successful motive for M&As, emphasizing the absorptive capacity of the acquiring firm in generating synergies from the combination of two firms.
Overall, the findings of the dissertation provide more evidence on the success of mergers and acquisitions motivated by technology improvement. The thesis emphasizes the interaction between acquirer’s and target’s resources in creating synergies from M&As, with a focus on technological resources. The evidence also has important implications for the literature on the stock market valuation of R&D expenditures as it indicates that technology M&As can be considered an R&D investment with significant impacts on this activity.
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Sjöstedt, Gustav. ""Here we go", nu är det dags... : Heterosexuella pars förhandling runt tittandet på film, dokumentärer och serier genom digitala plattformar". Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-156541.
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Uppsatsen undersöker hur hetereosexuella par i åldern 20 - 40 utan barn väljer film, serier och dokumentärer att titta på tillsammans och vilken betydelse tittandet har för relationen. Genom kvalitativa djupintervjuer med tre kvinnor och tre män som lever i en parrelation syftar studien att undersöka frågorna utifrån Hochschilds och Martins teorier om genus, Asplunds teorier om mikromakt samt teorier runt förhandling. Resultatet uppvisar sju huvudpoänger. För det första att tittande är en ritual, men att vad parterna ska titta på bestäms genom förhandling. För det andra att tittandet verkar vara en del av att konstruera par och förhåller sig till en trevlighetsnorm för rekreativa aktiviteter som bildar ramen för förhandlingen. För det tredje är tittandet funktionsstyrt, vilket påverkar beslutsprocessen. För det fjärde framstår beslutsprocessen som frustrerande för parterna till följd av genuskodade preferenser. För det femte beskrivs tittandets syfte som avkoppling, fast analysen visar att tittandet hjälper paren att skapa en meningsfull gemenskap. För det sjätte skapar tittandet också en samhällelig gemenskap och för det sjunde beskriver både intervjuade män och kvinnor en vilja att nå konsensus i förhandlingarna, men använder mikromakt för att korta ned förhandlingstiden och få igenom sin vilja, något som kan påverka relationens gemenskap negativt. Studien bidrar med ökad kunskap om förhandlingar av rekreativa aktiviteter bland hetereosexuella par utan barn.
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Afolabi, Adeoye Amuda. "The key challenge of corporate governance of firms : empirical evidence from Sub-Saharan African anglophone (SSAA) countries". Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7654.
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Motivation: In the Sub-Saharan Africa countries there are several factors contributing to the collapse of firms. Most firms have failed due to poor corporate governance practices. The recent collapse of some firms in the financial and non-financial sectors in the Sub-region shows that there are challenges hindering effective corporate governance of firms in the Subregion. Consequently, this study uses empirical evidence to identify views about the important components of good corporate governance practice for listed firms: institutional characteristics; the board of directors; and the effects of external factors. Research question: The pertinent research question that this study addresses is the identification of the components that are essential for good corporate governance of firms in the Sub-region. This study tries to prioritise the components. Methodology: Data were collected by questionnaire administered to stakeholders of corporate governance of listed firms in Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa. Regression is used to estimate the relationship between institutional characteristic, responsibilities of the board of directors and external factors on corporate governance system. Main findings: 1. Enforcement, disclosure, transparency and regulatory frameworks may be necessary to improve corporate governance practice in all the countries in the Sub-region (SSAA). 2. There is evidence that commitment of board members to disclosure and communication may provide effective corporate governance practice. 3. Board duality (separation of role between chairman and CEO) is likely to hinder corporate governance practices. 4. We found that in all the countries in the Sub-region accounting system plays a major role to promote sound corporate governance practice. However, the political environment, societal and cultural factor, corruption, and economic factors such as macro-economic policies may hinder corporate governance practices.Policy recommendations: This study recommends that corporate governance stakeholders should adopt a whistle blowing method and also that institutional bodies should be more prudent in monitoring of rules and laws with stringent penalties. In addition, there should be adequate information and disclosure on the rights and obligation of the shareholder of firms in the sub-region region. There is need to increase the number and role of independent directors, increase the use of advisory vote by shareholders on executive compensation and facilitation of shareholders activism. Furthermore, there is a need to have autonomous regulatory bodies and supervisory agencies free from any political/ government interference in the implementation of the Code and Guideline of corporate governance. The regulatory bodies and the supervisory agencies should be manned or be under the leadership of people of goodwill, good character and trust. The Code or Guideline of corporate governance of Sub-Saharan Africa Anglophone countries should take cognisance of and be aligned with socio-cultural environment of the countries in the Sub-region.
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Lahlou, Mehdi, e Sebastian Sandstedt. "Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire : An Analysis of the Riksbank’s Interest Setting Policy". Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-143163.
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We analyse the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank’s, interest setting policy in a Taylor rule framework. In particular, we examine whether or not the Riksbank has reacted to fluctuations in asset prices during the period 1995:Q1 to 2016:Q2. This is done by estimating a forward-looking Taylor rule with interest rate smoothing, augmented with stock prices, house prices and the real exchange rate, using IV GMM. In general, we find that the Riksbank’s interest setting policy is well described by a forward-looking Taylor rule with interest rate smoothing and that the use of factors as instruments, derived from a PCA, serves to alleviate the weak-identification problem that tend to plague GMM. Moreover, apart from finding evidence that the Riksbank exhibit a substantial degree of policy rate inertia and has acted so as to stabilize inflation and the real economy, we also find evidence that the Riksbank has been reacting to fluctuations in stock prices, house prices, and the real exchange rate.
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Ring, Jenifer L. "The effects of prescribed fire on herbaceous plant community composition and tree seedling density in a mature oak forest : Hoosier National Forest, Pleasant Run Unit, Jackson County, Indiana". Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1115751.
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A stratified sampling method was used to study the effects of two prescribed fires on a 250-acre section at the northwest end of Fork Ridge, Hoosier National Forest, in the spring of 1993 and 1995. An unburned area at the southeast end of Fork Ridge, adjacent to the burned area, and with similar forest communities, was used as a control area. Three growing seasons after the last fire, the burned area exhibited noticeable differences in understory vegetation. Herbaceous species diversity and richness, total herb cover on mesic sites, and mean percent cover and relative frequency for mesic-site, shade-tolerant species were greater on the burned area than on the unburned area. Dry-site, shade-intolerant tree seedlings including scarlet oak (Quercus Coccina), chestnut oak (Quercus prinus), sassafras (Sassafras albi dum), and tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) had higher relative frequency in the burned area, while shade-tolerant flowering dogwood (Cornus Florida) had lower relative frequency.Department of Biology
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Journot, Marie-Thérèse. "Le cinéma des années 80 : "Esthétique publicitaire " ou "post-modernisme" ? : Une esthétique de la communication en quête de légitimité". Paris 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA030121.
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Hermansson, Marleen. "Metaphor and Metonymy Related to the Concept of Anger in the Television Series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-149228.
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This study explores uses of metaphor and metonymy related to the concept of anger in the American television series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 2012. The theoretical framework of the study is Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The data consists of metaphors and metonymies in the verbal and the pictorial mode. The pictorial data are visual expressions of the type called pictorial runes. In both modes, the underlying conceptual metaphors are identified, and the results are then compared between modes. The main finding is that the verbal mode contains a greater variety of metaphorical expressions. Explanations suggested for differences found between modes are: different technical possibilities of the two modes; universality in the pictorial mode and language specific metaphors as well as universal ones in the verbal mode; a connection of pictorial and verbal data respectively to different genres within the series; and the different narrator roles between the two modes.
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Balčík, Michal. "Sídlo firmy MEgA - příprava a organizace výstavby". Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-225404.
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The object of the diploma thesis is a preparing and organization scheme of residence company MEgA. The thesis deals with facilities of a bulding site, safety devices and safety measures at work, control and pilot plans, a design of the machinery, budget and schedule, risk at the work and specialization through earthwork main road.
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Marcus, Reker Katherine B. "“Why Can’t Run ‘Like a Girl’ Also Mean Win The Race?”: Commodity Feminism and Participatory Branding as Forms of Self-Therapy in the Neoliberal Advertising Space". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/759.
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This thesis proposes a critical study of the techniques and motives behind modern commodity feminist advertising, focusing on the appropriation of the “young girl” as a symbol of the feminist cause. This evolving trend in advertising, building upon new movements of empowerment and the recent proliferation of the online feminist space, is shifting the logics of consumption by marketing feminist ideology and activism through consumer purchasing power. By prompting consumers to believe that their purchases can make a significant change, companies are developing brand loyalty in their key marketing demographics by using the image and rhetoric of the “young girl” to tap into a term I call “anti-nostalgia,” a nostalgia whereby women leverage the inherent sentimentality of childhood with a constructive understanding and rejection of the destructively sexist climate they experienced to combat these sociocultural conditions for future generations. Joining theoretical research on branding, user-generated content, and the neoliberal ideology of the consumer-citizen, I argue that these advertising campaigns, coupled with online spaces for public interaction and participation, effectively create channels for their target consumers to contribute to this commodified form of activism. In reality, however, these “feminist” purchases are simply forms of consumer self-therapy in a modern political climate of systemic gender discrimination.
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Ferreira, Cristina Mendes. "Gazelle Entrepreneurs". Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12659.
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Mestrado em FinançasAs empresas gazela são empresas jovens de alto crescimento. Estas têm menos de cinco anos de idade, empregam mais de dez trabalhadores e o seu crescimento anualizado é maior do que vinte por cento por ano, durante um período de três anos. Dada a importância destas empresas na economia, alguns estudos anteriores avaliaram os principais determinantes para crescimento destas empresas a curto prazo. Este estudo tem uma abordagem nova e avalia o desempenho a longo prazo das gazelas, em termos de criação de emprego e sobrevivência. Mais especificamente, analisamos se as empresas gazela continuam a superar as outras start-ups em fase de arranque, a longo prazo ou se o seu crescimento é temporário. Para proporcionar uma nova visão, foi utilizado uma base de dados empregador-empregado (QP- "Quadros de Pessoal"). Os nossos dados permitem identificar as empresas gazela e seus fundadores. Nós selecionamos todas as start-ups estabelecidas entre 2000 e 2005 e seguimo-las por um período de sete anos. Identificamos 175 empresas gazela e 37.700 empresas não-gazela. Os nossos resultados sugerem que as empresas gazelas têm um melhor desempenho a longo prazo. O tamanho das empresas gazela aumentou em 144, 130, 86, 69, 52, 37 e 19 porcento entre os anos 4 e 10, respetivamente, em comparação com as empresas não-gazela. No entanto, não há evidência estatística que permita concluir que as empresas gazela têm uma maior taxa de sobrevivência no longo prazo.
Gazelle firms are young high growth ventures. They have less than five years old, employ more than ten workers and their annualized growth is greater than twenty percent per year over a three-year period. Given their importance in the economy, previous studies have evaluated the main determinants for their short-term growth. This study takes a novel approach and evaluates gazelles? long-term performance, in terms of job creation and survival. More specifically, we analyze if gazelle firms continue to outperform the other start-ups in the long run or if their growth is temporary. To provide new insights, we used a matched employer-employee dataset (QP- ?Quadros de Pessoal?). Our data enable us to identify gazelle start-ups and their founders. We select all start-ups established between 2000 and 2005 and we track them for a seven-year period. We identify 175 gazelle start-ups and 37,700 non-gazelle start-ups. Our results suggest that gazelle firms perform better on the long run. In comparison with the non-gazelle start-ups, their size increased by 144, 130, 86, 69, 52, 37 and 19 percent in years 4 to 10, respectively. However, we have not found statistical evidence of gazelle firms being more likely to survive on the long run, thus we cannot conclude that gazelle firms are less likely to survive on the long run.
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Gairifo, Ricardo José Emídio. "Rendibilidades anormais nas vésperas dos anúncios de ofertas públicas de aquisição: aplicação ao mercado Euronext". Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/1310.
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Mestrado em Economia Monetária e FinanceiraOs anúncios de Ofertas Públicas de Aquisição (OPAs), na sua generalidade, influenciam significativamente as cotações em bolsa das sociedades visadas, conduzindo a oportunidades para os investidores com acesso a informação privilegiada antes do anúncio público, de obterem mais valias significativas com a compra e posterior venda das acções após o mesmo ser tornado público. O presente trabalho analisa a existência de rendibilidades anormais antes do anúncio ser tornado público para as sociedades visadas em Ofertas Públicas de Aquisição no Mercado Euronext de 2001 a 2007. De facto, constata-se a existência de movimentos anormais nas cotações antes dos anúncios mas a sua magnitude, medida pelo índice run-up revela-se substancialmente inferior à verificada em estudos empíricos anteriores. Além disso, grande parte do run-up pode ser explicado pela antecipação do mercado recorrendo a fontes legítimas, nomeadamente, pela especulação despoletada por notícias nos media quanto à possibilidade da empresa vir a ser visada numa futura oferta e pela participação da sociedade oferente na sociedade visada antes do anúncio.
Tender Offers announcements, in general, influence significantly the stock prices of target firms, allowing investors with access to inside information to obtain significant profits buying stocks before announcement and selling them after the offer become public. The present study analyze the existence of abnormal returns in target firms before the announcement of Tender Offers become public in Euronext Stock Exchange from 2001 to 2007. The study revealed that there are abnormal movements in target stock prices, but the magnitude measured by run-up index is substantially lower than the magnitude calculated in previous empirical studies. Moreover, the largest part of run-up can be explain by market anticipation based in information obtained with resource to legitimate sources, namely media speculation and toehold of the bidder firm on the target firm before the announcement become public.
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Heinig, Peter. "The geometry of interacting liquid domains in Langmuir monolayers". Phd thesis, [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://pub.ub.uni-potsdam.de/2003/0019/heinig.pdf.
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Igreja, Eduardo Nogueira de. "Qual é o preço da ação-loteria?" reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/21993.
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A lottery-type stock is a stock that presents a small probability of achieving a big positive return. If investors have utility functions based on Kahneman and Tversky’s Prospect Theory, they overestimate low probabilities. Other behavioral bias may occur when investors, analyzing data sample in retrospective, use peak-end rule, focusing their attention in the maximum point (PEAK) and at the end of sample (end). Sell the first quartile of stocks ranked by PEAK of daily returns in the last month (the 25% which had the higher PEAKS) and buy the last quartile of stocks (the 25% which had the lower PEAKS) is a profitable strategy with statistical significance (t-statistic of 2,38) in the 2000-2017 data sample of Brazilian stock market. These findings are not explained by 3-factor model of Fama-French (6,5% alpha), momentum, skewness, volatility, or traditional value-indicators, such as price-to-earnings and book-tomarket ratio
Ação-loteria é definida como uma ação que apresenta uma pequena probabilidade de alcançar um grande retorno positivo. Se os investidores possuem função utilidade segundo a Teoria da Perspectiva (Prospect Theory) de Kahneman e Tversky (1979), estes investidores sobre-estimam pequenas probabilidades. Outro viés comportamental pode ocorrer quando investidores, ao analisarem em retrospecto um período de dados, utilizam a heurística do pico-fim, concentrando-se nos momentos de máxima magnitude (PICO) e no final da amostra (fim). Vender o primeiro quartil de ações ordenadas por PICO de retorno diário no mês anterior (as 25% que obtiveram os maiores PICOS) e comprar o último quartil (as 25% com menores PICOS) é uma estratégia com ganhos estatisticamente significantes (t-estatístico de 2,38) no período de 2000 a 2017 no mercado de ações brasileiro. Os resultados não são explicados pelo modelo de Três Fatores de Fama-French (alfa de 6,5% ao ano), momento, assimetria, volatilidade, ou múltiplos tradicionalmente associados a valor, como razão lucro-preço e preço-valor patrimonial.
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Swart, Charl. "Public opinion on land reform in South Africa". Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4377.
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Thesis (MA (Political Science))--Stellenbosch University, 2010.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores public opinion on land reform in South Africa using data gathered by Ipsos-Markinor in nationally representative public opinion surveys conducted in 2004 and 2007, and by an elite survey conducted by Centre for International and Comparative Politics in 2007. This study explores whether public opinion on land reform reveals distinct trends that correlate with the selected socio-demographic variables of race, language, party affiliation and social status. It is hypothesised that there is an identifiable correlation between these independent variables and the opinions of respondents on land reform, with specific groups tending to support land reform whilst other groups tend to reject it. The data analyses yielded results that highlight distinct trends in public opinion on land reform. Responses are clustered around specific characteristics of the independent variables and point towards distinct groups having specific views on land reform. From this set of findings it is inferred that public opinion on land reform illustrates that certain groups of South Africans have contrasting views of how the rule of law and transformation should find expression in a democratic society. These fundamentally differing opinions on key elements of democracy illustrate that South Africans hold diverging opinions of what constitutes democracy, through adherence to either the liberal or the liberationist model of democracy. These models were previously identified as two distinct and diverging interpretations of democracy in South Africa and were labelled as such. These two models uphold sharply divergent normative prescriptions of democracy, as well as contrasting prescriptions for various policies of democratic consolidation, including that of land reform.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Openbare mening oor grondhervorming in Suid-Afrika word in hierdie studie ondersoek. Die ondersoek maak gebruik van data ingewin deur Ipsos-Markinor in nasionaal verteenwoordigende openbare meningsopnames uitgevoer in 2004 en 2007, asook ‘n elite opname wat in 2007 uitgevoer is deur die Sentrum vir Internationale en Vergelykende Politiek (CICP). Hierdie studie ondersoek die moontlikheid dat openbare mening ten opsigte van grondhervorming met geselekteerde sosio-demografiese veranderlikes (ras, taal, politieke affiliasie en sosiale status) korreleer. Die hipotese is dat daar ‘n identifiseerbare korrelasie is tussen hierdie onafhanklike veranderlikes en die menings van die respondente ten opsigte van grondhervorming en dat daar spesifieke groepe is wat grondhervorming ondersteun en ander nie. Analise van die data toon duidelike tendense in openbare mening oor die kwessie van grondhervorming. Menings korreleer wel met die onafhanklike veranderlikes en wys daarop dat bepaalde sosiale groepe uiteenlopende standpunte het oor grondhervorming. Uit hierdie stel bevindinge maak die navorser die afleiding dat daar, binne die Suid- Afrikaanse bevolking, groepe is met uiteenlopende menings oor hoe die oppergesag van die reg en transformasie binne ‘n demokrasie uitgeleef moet word. Hierdie fundamenteel kontrasterende menings ten opsigte van hierdie sleutelelemente van demokrasie, illustreer dat Suid-Afrikaners uiteenlopende menings oor demokrasie het in die vorm van ondersteuning van hetsy die liberale- of bevrydingsmodelle van demokrasie. Hierdie modelle is as twee duidelike en afsonderlike interpretasies van demokrasie voorgestel en beskryf. Hierdie twee modelle verteenwoordig skerp uiteenlopende normatiewe beskouinge oor demokrasie, en bied daarmee saam, botsende beleidsvoorskrifte aan vir demokratiese konsolidering, insluitende beleid oor grondhervorming.
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Watson, John. "Comparison of the long-run stock return performance of firms subsequent to private equity placements and rights issues in the New Zealand stock market a dissertation submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Business (Honours), 2007". Abstract Full dissertation, 2007.
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Dinh, Khac Huy. "Fabrication of solid state Micro-Supercapacitors based on transition metal nitride thin films for powering the Internet of Things". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lille (2022-....), 2023. https://pepite-depot.univ-lille.fr/ToutIDP/EDENGSYS/2023/2023ULILN021.pdf.
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La croissance rapide des applications de l'Internet des Objets (IoT) a entraîné une augmentation de la demande de dispositifs de stockage d'énergie. Les micro-supercondensateurs (MSCs) sont apparus comme des candidats prometteurs pour les applications à débit rapide en raison de leurs densités de puissance élevées, de leurs capacités à haut débit, de leurs longues durées de vie et de leur nature respectueuse de l'environnement. Toutefois, le principal défi à relever pour généraliser l'utilisation des MSCs dans l'industrie est leur densité énergétique relativement faible. Pour résoudre ce problème, diverses solutions ont été explorées pour améliorer la capacité ou la tension de la cellule en jouant avec le type d'électrolytes utilisés, les matériaux d'électrodes et les topologies de dispositifs afin d'obtenir des MSCs à haute performance. Cette thèse se concentre sur l'étude des matériaux d'électrode en couche mince fabriqués par pulvérisation cathodique magnétron. Plus précisément, un alliage ternaire de nitrure de vanadium et de tungstène (VWN), le nitrure de ruthénium (RuN) et les électrolytes à l'état solide ont été étudiés en tant que matériaux d'électrode pseudocapacitifs efficaces. Cette thèse a été réalisée dans le cadre du projet CAMISOL sélectionné par l'université de Lille dans le cadre du programme PEARL (Programme for EArly-stage Researchers in Lille) cofinancé par la Commission Européenne, dont la motivation était de fabriquer des micro-supercondensateurs asymétriques (AMSCs) à base de VN (ou VWN) // RuN à l'état solide. Des films minces de VWN ont été synthétisés en utilisant une approche de co-pulvérisation ou de multi-couches nanométriques, démontrant d'excellentes performances qui défient les meilleurs matériaux multicatoniques rapportés pour les condensateurs électrochimiques. Des techniques avancées de cartographie à l'échelle du wafer ont été employées pour corréler les propriétés structurales, électriques, mécaniques et électrochimiques des films avec les paramètres de dépôts utilisés. Cette approche offre de nouvelles perspectives et fournit un outil de caractérisation puissant pour la prochaine génération de matériaux électrochimiques fabriqués à l'Université de Lille avec des méthodes de dépôt de couches minces.Dans la partie suivante, les films RuN ont été étudiés en tant que matériaux d'électrode efficaces, et une preuve de concept pour des MSC asymétriques VN // RuN à l'état solide a été présentée. Les paramètres de pulvérisation ont été soigneusement optimisés pour maximiser la porosité du film tout en maintenant une conductivité électrique élevée. Diverses techniques avancées ont été employées pour révéler la complexité de la structure et du mécanisme de stockage de charge des films RuN. Grâce à la fenêtre de travail complémentaire des films VN et RuN dans un électrolyte aqueux KOH 1M, la tension de cellule du dispositif AMSC VN // RuN a été considérablement augmentée, atteignant jusqu'à 1,15 V. Par conséquent, l'AMSC VN // RuN a démontré l'une des densités d'énergie les plus élevées rapportées jusqu'à présent pour les AMSCs basées sur des films minces de nitrure de métal de transition. Enfin, l'étude de l'utilisation d'un électrolyte à l'état solide, d'un électrolyte hydrogel PVA/KOH et de liquides ioniques dans la fabrication d'AMSC à l'état solide a été présentéeThe rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) applications has led in an increased demand for energy storage devices. Micro-supercapacitors (MSCs) have emerged as promising candidates for high-speed applications due to their high-rate capabilities, long cycle life and environmental friendliness. However, the main challenge to be addressed for the widespread industrial use of MSCs is their relatively low energy density. To address this issue, various solutions have been explored to increase the capacitance or the cell voltage by playing with the electrolyte used, electrode materials and device topologies to achieve high-performance MSCs. This work focuses on the investigation of thin film electrode materials prepared by magnetron sputtering deposition. In particular, vanadium tungsten nitride (VWN) and ruthenium nitride (RuN) have been investigated as efficient pseudocapacitive electrode materials. This work was carried out in the frame of the CAMISOL project selected by the Lille university through the PEARL program (Program for EArly-stage Researchers in Lille) cofunded by the European Commission, where the motivation was to fabricate solid-state VN (or VWN) // RuN asymmetric micro-supercapacitors (AMSC). VWN thin films were synthesized using co-sputtering and nanolaminate approaches and demonstrated excellent performance challenging the best multicatonic materials reported for MSCs. Advanced characterization mapping techniques were used to explore the correlation between the structural, electrical, mechanical, and electrochemical properties of the films. This approach offers new perspectives and provides a powerful characterization tool for the next generation of electrochemical materials fabricated by thin film deposition methods at Lille University.In the following part of the thesis, RuN films were investigated as efficient electrode materials, and solid-state VN // RuN AMSC was presented as a proof of concept. Sputtering parameters were carefully optimized to maximize the film porosity while maintaining high electrical conductivity. Various advanced techniques were employed to reveal the complexity of the structure and charge storage mechanism of RuN films. Taking advantage from the complementary working window of VN and RuN films in a 1M KOH aqueous electrolyte, the cell voltage of the VN // RuN AMSC device was significantly increased, reaching up to 1.15 V. As a result, the VN // RuN AMSC exhibited one of the highest areal energy densities reported so far for AMSCs based on transition metal nitride thin films. Finally, the study of the use of solid-state electrolyte, PVA/KOH hydrogel electrolyte and ionic liquids in the fabrication of all-solid-state AMSCs was presented
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Gergely, Noemi. "Implicit Family Process and Couples Rules: A Comparison of American and Hungarian Families". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/526.
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Family life is organized by rules, and most of them are unspokenly agreed-upon by family members and may be even out of awareness. Implicit family process and couple rules may facilitate or constrain family relationship and intimate couple relationship growth. Prevalence of family rules may be different across cultures. Family members may perceive their rules and family functioning differently according to their family position and gender. Married couples may view their relationship rules differently than couples who cohabit. This study utilized the Family Implicit Rules Profile (FIRP) and the Couples Implicit Rules Profile (CIRP) Questionnaires to answer these research questions. The questionnaires were translated into Hungarian, and the content validity of the Hungarian translation was established. Hungarian non-clinical families and couples were compared to American (U.S.) non-clinical families and couples to examine how prevalent implicit rules were in the two cultures. According to the findings, Hungarian families and couples scored lower on the total FIRP and CIRP scores. Hungarian families perceived implicit family rules regarding kindness and monitoring less prevalent, and rules regarding constraining their thoughts, feelings and self more prevalent than American families. No differences were found in expressiveness and connection and inappropriate caretaking of parents between the two cultures. Hungarian couples perceived their implicit relationship rules regarding kindness, expressiveness and connection and monitoring less prevalent than American couples. No differences in implicit rules about constraining thoughts, feelings and self and inappropriate caretaking of partner were found between the two cultures. Mothers in both cultures viewed their families in a more positive light than other family members, and female family members (mothers and daughters) were more positive than their male counterparts (fathers and sons) about rules in their families in both cultures. Sons in both cultures perceived more responsibility to protect their parents emotionally than did daughters. Married couples in both cultures perceived their relationship rules more favorably in terms of kindness and monitoring than cohabiting couples. Results were interpreted in the context of cultural differences between the American and the Hungarian cultures. Limitations and the possibility of future research are discussed.
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An, Yi-Chien, e 安怡倩. "The Effect of Related Party Transaction Rule Violation on Firm Value". Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75704725159246079288.
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碩士國立中央大學
財務金融學系在職專班
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There were several corporate frauds occurred in the years following the 1997 Asian financial crisis. The controlling shareholders expropriate minority shareholders’ interests by non-arm’s length transactions and tunneling activities. The expropriation by controlling shareholders is an issue for the corporate governance in Taiwan. This study collects the violations of related party transaction (RPT) rules and investigates the market reactions to the announcements of the fines on such violations. The sample period is from 2005 to 2014. The empirical results show that the abnormal returns are not significantly different from zero. To further focus on the sample of violations which the fine amount is greater than NT$1 million, the stock prices materially depress on four days before the announcement day, implying the negative information is released by insiders. Finally, this study proposes some suggestions on the market regulations.
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Tsai, Yi-Ning, e 蔡亦寧. "Firm Location, Institutional Ownership, and the Long-Run Performance of SEOs". Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dnclcdr&s=id=%22107NCHU5304018%22.&searchmode=basic.
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碩士國立中興大學
財務金融學系所
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This study examined the following three issues concerning firm’s location on seasonal equity offering : (1) how firms location affects the investment decisions of institutional investors in seasonal equity offering, (2) the impact of different locations on issuers’ stock return after seasonal equity offering, and (3) The relationship between change in institutional investors ownership around seasonal equity offering and long-run performance of issuers. The results show that institutional investors will invest in firms located in urban, but will not invest in firms located in small cities. Institutional investors'' ownership is significantly positively correlated with long run performance; and the long-run performance of firms which located in urban is obviously better. In addition, the institutional investors who are the shareholders of issuer before seasonal equity offering owned more firm’s information then the institutional investors who become shareholders after seasonal equity offering, this paper divides the institutional investors into old institutional investors and new institutional investors.
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Lai, Mei-Huah, e 賴玫樺. "The Long-Run and Short-Run Performance of Firms Following Loan Announcements". Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29461275610382653436.
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碩士國立中山大學
企業管理學系研究所
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Choices in financing is an important issue when firms need to leverage. With the giant capital concerned, including the capital structure, investment decision-making, and dividend policy etc., it plays a crucial role for a firm''s future. Among the foreign literatures, unlike equity offerings or public debt offerings, bank loan financing elicits a significant positive stock price reaction. The lengthy foreign literature on firm financing decisions relies (in parts) on this finding to characterize bank loans as “unique” or “special” forms of external finance. During the process of approval for loan, banks will make a great effort on monitoring and verifying the quality of firm’s credit capability. The information banks get makes bank loan as an important way to reducing the information asymmetry between firms and the investigators. We further explore the uniqueness of private lending announcement by examining the short-run and the long-run equity performance of bank borrowers. With single-factor model and Fama-French three-factor model, the loan announcement both caused a positive borrowers returns in the short run and long run overall. But there is no cross-sectional effect in the short run. Although the industry variable elicits a significant positive reaction in the long run, it’s only because of the characteristic of the industry, not the loan announcement effects. We conclude that the loan announcement has no influence on the borrowers return
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Chen, Tzung-Fu, e 陳宗甫. "The Long-run and Short-run Investment Performances of Firms After Private Placement". Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31768893628366696503.
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碩士淡江大學
財務金融學系碩士班
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There are more and more enterprises using private placement after private placement is permitted in Taiwan. It shows that private placement is becoming one choice for public companies to raise capital.This study explores the characteristics of firms conducting private equity offer from Taiwan listed company from February 2002 to June 2007. We adopt 195 enterprises from Market Observation Post System and TEJ database. This study provides information on abnormal shot-term stock returns in different events of private placement of equity and the one years’ stock price performance after private placement of equity.The results of this study are as follows： 1. The firms of private placement of equity have a positive short-term announcement effect in the date of the Shareholders'' Meeting. Besides, the firms also have significantly positive cumulative average abnormal returns in the ex-rights date. 2. The firms of private placement of equity have negative long-term cumulative average abnormal returns after one year of the ex-rights date.
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Lan, Tzu-Wen, e 藍子雯. "Earnings Management and Long-Run Firm Performance Following Open Market Stock Repurchases". Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90616766493520412749.
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碩士亞洲大學
財務金融學系碩士班
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This study examines the relationship between earnings management and long-term performance of companies following open market stock repurchases in Taiwan. This study demonstrates that the stock price is undervalued and existed long-term cumulative abnormal returns. In addition, there is no earnings management before open market share repurchases. The results show that the earnings management does not impact long-term performance of stock repurchases. Finally, corporate governance could not control earnings management.
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Williams, Laura. "A sheep-run or a nation? : the evidence from Kelsall & Kemp (Tasmania) and Patons & Baldwins, Launceston". Thesis, 1998. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22006/1/whole_WilliamsLaura1998_thesis.pdf.
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'Shall Australia be a sheep-run or a nation?', asked nationalists after the First
World War. While this sentiment was not new, the war created an atmosphere in
which the equation of nationhood with greater industrial self-sufficiency complemented
the federal government's economic aims. Woollen manufacture proved ideally suited as
a centre-piece in the campaign to promote local manufacture. Failure to develop the
country's best known national export - wool - threatened to incline Australia more
towards being a metaphoric sheep-run than an independent nation. Such apprehensions
assisted in woollen manufacture becoming one of the sentimental icons in the push to
industrialise. This work focuses primarily upon the establishment of two British
woollen manufacturers, Kelsall & Kemp and Patons & Baldwins, whose foundation
derived from the relationship between economic policy and Australian nationality.
Concentration is upon the period between World War I and the Depression. During
this period Australia's woollen industry made a successful transition from holding a
minor domestic market share to being pre-eminent within the Australian market. The
thesis does not attempt to provide a comprehensive study of the two companies even
during the period emphasised. It rather examines how these companies' experiences
relate to the broader concerns and practicalities of industrial development. It also
explores how closely reality mirrored industrialisation's promises, as well as and the
associated benefits and costs. Symbolic of the contradictions characterising the 1920s
were attempts to achieve greater industrial self-sufficiency through the attraction of
companies controlled outside Australia. The influences of external control at Kelsall &
Kemp and Patons & Baldwins were evident during these companies' establishment
phase. The repercussions of direct foreign investment, however, become increasingly
apparent in the late twentieth century. To demonstrate the progression of ideas, values
and policies within Australia, the thesis' final chapter surveys the period since 1930.
For decades the hopes of the 1920s seemed on the way to fulfilment, but more recently
that prospect has diminished.
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Ya-Ting, Chan, e 詹雅婷. "Researching of Improvement in Fire Escaped Systems & Fire Protections for Existing Buildings by Rule". Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13011226030324316729.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
碩士樹德科技大學
建築與古蹟維護研究所
91
“ The basic science of fire prevention engineering ”has been used in many developed countries (as United State, England, Canada, Japan, etc.) to promoted their building improvement in fire prevention techniques，which used as the base of enactment or amendment of fire prevention rule for existing building. For enforce the fire preventions and escaping systems of existing building, our country had been enacted “the rule of improved in fire escaped systems and fire protections for existing building” in the Architectural Code since February 15, 1995. There are 18 items in the whole chapter of this rule before, and then it was amended on October 18, 2001. According this rule, all existing building must obey and improved their fire escaped systems and fire protections as fire prevention to assure the user security and public safety. The owner of most existing building have not improved their building in the escaped systems and fire protection because the restricted factors of building structure 、dimension of spaces、 and site location , etc., even if they would be punished by the law or restricted the building use. But the fact tell us, executed existing building improvement and the rule could not be coincided, and if we do not improved the old building, the circumstance would be not safety for the user or public people. It was so difficult to resolve in these problems that it was interesting as a thesis to researching and studding. Existing building, particular in public use, where still are as living room、 shopping shop 、 and acted space for the most people, so that still exist all the living organization such as fire use、 electric power supply、 lights etc., The fire is not predicted factor at any time. In the other site, the progress society there are many society problems including arson whose action could not prevented, and even natural event about earthquake、 typhoon, it could be make fire so that the existing building improved their fire escaped systems and fire protections more and more importance than before and not be neglected. About problems were this study purpose, the research from the existing building improved in the fire escaped system and fire protection, to study、 to analysis the fire rule of develop country. According the basic investigation、organization of the data file of existing building, we could suggest the cases which not only would be executed and match the fire rule, but also could be as the reference in the amended rule at next time. Coincided with the rule and executive way to existing building could be improved in fire prevention that could be protected the user security and public safety and also to reach this research purpose.
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Hsieh, Chia-Yu, e 謝佳諭. "The Long-Run Performance of OBM and OEM Firms". Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64321762746067029631.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
碩士國立中興大學
會計學研究所
100
Taiwan’s OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) firms were on the top of the world in the past, but the boom of the OEM industry has been gone with time. In recent years, government in Taiwan encourages firms to develop OBM (Own Brand Manufacturing) to create their own value. However, the business strategy of developing OBM or OEM has its pros and cons. This study uses companies which won the “Top Taiwan 20 Global Brand” prize from 2002 to 2010 as the sample of the OBM firms. Comparison samples are the OEM firms manufacturing the same product like the OBM firms. This study analyses subsequent operating performance of the OBM firms at the first year, the third year, and the fifth year after the year that the firm won the prize, and compares with the operating performance of the matched OEM firms. To control the effect of industrial business cycle on the performance of individual company, this study adopts an industrial performance adjusted method which is more reasonable and accurate to capture that effect. Empirical results find that the OBM firms’ ROA (Return on Assets) are significantly higher than the OEM firms’ ROA at each of the follow-up period. After using the method of Winsorized extreme value, the OBM firms’ ROE (Return on Equity) are also significantly higher than the OEM firms’ ROE at each of the follow-up period. This means that the performance of the OBM firms is better than the performance of the OEM firms in the long-run. Consequently, the long-run performance of the OBM firms are better than the long-run performance of OEM firms in Taiwan. The contribution of this thesis can serve as a reference for corporate decisions and government policies.
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Lai, Yuan-Chao, e 賴源釗. "The Long-run Strategies of Construction Firm in Taiwan : A Case of T Company". Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/dakk9s.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
碩士國立中興大學
高階經理人碩士在職專班
103
The thesis mainly discusses the deep impact from economic booming, competitiveness and government policy which have significant influences on the development of construction industry in Taiwan. As we found, the key factor of successfully managing construction companies depends on strategies according to the instant change from the market. Instead of waiting for the booming of economy or promoting construction projects blindly, construction companies should draw up their corporate and business strategies and implement these strategies more effectively in order to perform well in the long term and achieve the goal of sustainability. By analysing the current and future tendency of Taiwan real property market in 2015, we draw up strategies for the case of T Company on the basis of its current situation. These results would provide profound insights for real property practitioners. Keywords: Real Properties, Corporate Strategy, SWOT, Leases, Diversification
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Yeh, Chen-Hung. "Insider Trading and the Long-Run Performance of Acquiring Firms". 2005. http://www.cetd.com.tw/ec/thesisdetail.aspx?etdun=U0009-0112200611290798.
Testo completo
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Dong, Jian-Jhong, e 董建中. "The Long-run Performance of Listed Firms after Capital Decrease". Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44425288287087168965.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
碩士中國文化大學
會計研究所
93
In order to identify the effects of price behavior by reducing capital to make up a lose and stock repurchases,the investment performance of listed firms from January 1, 2001 to June 30,2003 are examined by event study of listed firm.Whether the stock price of performance to use reducing capital under TSE or OTC.The investment performance are examined by CAR,BHAR,and CTAR to test the existence of abnormal return.The benchmark portfolios are EWRM,VWRM,MV, and MVBP of reference port-folio and MV, and MVBP of control firm. On one hand ,it is indicated that capital decrease according to Corporate Regulation to make up a loss are associated with negative return but not significantly.On the other hand, the long-term investment performance of capital reducing firms according to Security Transaction Regulation do not show abnormal returns.However,the performance of capital reducing firms according to Security Transaction Regulation are better than those according to Corporate Regulation.There are negative abnormal returns of textile,electronic and the construction industries according to corporate Regulation.The returns of the other industries are positive. However, there exist positive abnormal return of the construction and other industries ac-cording to Security Transaction Regulation. The electronic industry exists negative abnormal return. It shows that the industry factor is an important one to influence the re-sults of investment performance.The year factor does not influence the results of investment performance. In order to test the consistency and robustness of the study, the stock performance are also examined under different industries and different years.
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Hsieh, Ting-Chin, e 謝定錦. "The Long-Run Stock Performance of Acquiring Firms in Taiwan". Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80989385555041458886.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
碩士國立高雄第一科技大學
財務管理所
95
This study investigates the long-run price performance and finance performance of the Taiwanese acquiring firms in the behavior of actual merge and acquisition. The main purposes are to identify the existences of long-rum abnormal return and the structure changes in finance performance of those acquiring firms after their merge and acquisition announcements. However, the accuracy or the reliability of data source and the merge and acquisition announcements made by listed firms were ignored in previous studies. Here, we gather our data from the market observation post system which is righteous and trustful quasi-official website. Thus, firms who were listed in exchanges and announced merge and acquisition programs within Jan 1994 to Dec 2003 are obtained in this study in order to track the three years share price and finance performances. For measuring long-run price performance, both the cumulative abnormal return (CAR) and the buy-and-hold abnormal return (BHAR) were employed in this study. Moreover, value-weighted market index, control firms of similar sizes, and control firms of similar sizes and book-to-market ratios are used as benchmarks in each methodology. Finally, the operating cash flow return, ROA, EPS, operating profit rates, cash flow from operations ratio, quick ratio, and equity to total asset are employed for investigating the post-announcement finance performance of acquiring firms. In this study, two conclusions are made. First, no significant long-run abnormal returns were found in each approach. The result shows the market efficiency. In other words, the market reacts to merge and acquisition announcements efficiently, lead to the absence of long-run abnormal returns. Second, the seven financial variables of acquiring firms experience significant structure changes after the merge and acquisition announcements. Such result provides evidence the generating of synergy following the actual merge and acquisition programs, and is consistent with the manner of maximization of shareholders’ wealth.
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Chen-Hung, Yeh, e 葉真宏. "Insider Trading and the Long-Run Performance of Acquiring Firms". Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44795217635940075321.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
碩士元智大學
財務金融研究所
93
Abstract This paper examines the relation between insiders’ trading and the long-run performance of acquiring firms. The article shows that there is no close relation between insiders’ trading and the long-run stock returns of acquiring firms. However, there is a close relation between the CEO’s transaction, only when CEO sells equity, and the long-run stock returns of acquiring firms. Acquiring firms significantly underperforms their benchmarks especially when top executives sell shares after completing mergers. This evidence is consistent with the notion that the insiders have more private information about firms which complete acquisitions and sell overvalued shares. In conclusion, the results suggest that it is not desirable to invest in acquiring firms when insiders sell shares after effective date.
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李淯靖. "The Long-Run Stock Performance of Acquiring Firms in Taiwan". Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11093083392213785750.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
碩士東海大學
國際貿易學系
92
Based on the sample of 156 mergers between 1992 and 2001 in Taiwan, this research examines acquiring firms’ long-run stock performances after the mergers under the methodologies of buy-and-hold abnormal return (BHAR), Fama and French’s three-factor model, and average monthly abnormal return (AMAR). In addition, this study divides the sample firms into related and unrelated mergers, and international and domestic mergers to discuss their average long-run performance after the mergers. Finally, the study empirically tests the impact of industrial differences and the acquirers’ past performances on the long-run performance after the mergers. After controlling the size and book-to-market ratio factors, the empirical results show that acquiring firms do not earn significant abnormal returns during the 3-year period following the mergers. None of the related, unrelated, international, and domestic mergers outperform in the three years after the mergers. However, large acquiring firms in the international mergers earn significantly positive abnormal returns. This study further separates the sample firms by industry into electronic and non-electronic firms, and finds that the electronic acquiring firms outperform in the three years after the mergers, while the non-electronic firms earn insignificantly negative abnormal returns. Moreover, the bidders in the non-electronic industry earn insignificantly positive abnormal returns in the three years after acquiring the unrelated target firms. In addition, neither growth bidders (low book-to-market ratio) nor value bidders (high book-to-market ratio) earn significantly positive excess return, but value acquirers in the related mergers outperform during the two-year period after the mergers. This finding supports Rau and Vermaelen’s (1998) performance extrapolation hypothesis.
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Liu, Kuan-Ting, e 劉冠廷. "Parent Firms’ Long-run Performance and Affecting Factors following Spinoffs". Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rj95eb.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
碩士國立中興大學
財務金融學系所
106
This study examines the long-run performance of firms that conduct spinoffs. The results show that the parent firms perform better than their matching firms after spinoffs, implying that spinoffs can increase the efficiency of firms'' operations. Parent firms that conduct focus-increasing spinoffs and operate in the high-tech industries tend to exhibit better performance, implying that the post-spinoff extra value is at least partly generated from the avoidance of inefficiency of capital allocation. Using analysts following and credit ratings as proxies as information asymmetry, we find that this two factors positively affect the long-run performance of spinoffs. In addition, I find that the higher degree of industry concentration, the worse long-run performance. This finding reveals that spinoffs driven by industry competition can force the parent firm to operate more efficiently.
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Kao, Chuan-Yi, e 高全溢. "Implementation of FIR filter using run-time reconfigurable computing". Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48529304436078054787.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
碩士中華技術學院
電子工程研究所碩士班
93
An application of FIR digital filter that using reconfigurable system to implement is presented. We use some small chips to replace single large chip, and finish a FIR filter application. To support the requirement of complicated application, we have to use more Tap in the design of FIR digital filter, that means, we will need a PLD chip with more gete count to implement it. However, it caused the high cost and efficiency issue. To surmount the defects, we can use the multi-chip reconfigurable system. In this system, the reconfigurable devices are connected to a common system bus, and only one device is active on the bus. The equivalent circuit of the FIR digital filter is suitably divided into pieces and they are loaded into these reconfigurable devices in order. Dividing filter into more senctions will reduce the amount of gate count of PLD to be used. therefore, we can use small chips to replace single large chip.
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LIN, FU-SEN, e 林富森. "Application of the Association Rule of Data Mining Technology to Equipment Failure: Using Firm A as an Example". Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/faqg2d.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
碩士南華大學
資訊管理學系
106
Various increasing costs in the textile industry, which is a type of traditional manufacturing industry, have resulted in the relocation of some Taiwanese factories to countries with lower wage costs. Internal factors such as yearly depreciation of aging factory machinery, frequent machine failures, and a decrease in equipment reliability have heavily impaired production efficiency and resulted in increased operating costs. Because information technology rapidly presents new developments, valuable knowledge regarding rapid data collection methods, uncovering potentially useful data, and extracting useful information has formed the field of data mining. The goals of data mining on textile production data are to find the correlations of machine failures, reduce the frequency of such failures, and enhance production efficiency. This paper is a case study that examines a firm’s equipment failure records, and applies data mining technology in the form of the Apriori algorithm to analyze equipment failure attributes and identify highly significant rules. This study provides suggestions for improvement to minimize the frequency of machine failures.