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Bailey, Lee. "Spatial distributions within electroactive films". Thesis, University of Leicester, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30039.
Pełny tekst źródłaDuke, Tyler Norman. "The role of conservation films within the environmental debate". Thesis, Montana State University, 2006. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2006/duke/DukeT1206.pdf.
Pełny tekst źródłaSupian, Faridah Lisa. "Sensing interactions within nanoscale calixarene and polysiloxane Langmuir-Blodgett films". Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538002.
Pełny tekst źródłaConner, Marilyn W. "Theory of solid physisorbed films within the Potts lattice gas model /". The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487266691096888.
Pełny tekst źródłaCrutchley, Nigel Stuart. "The encapsulation of oils and oil soluble substances within polymer films". Thesis, University of Leeds, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434758.
Pełny tekst źródłaKane, Ravindra (Ravindra Shantaram) 1972. "Characterization and technical studies of semiconductor nanoclusters synthesized within polymer films". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9608.
Pełny tekst źródłaIncludes bibliographical references.
Semiconductor nanoclusters were synthesized within diblock copolymer films containing carboxylic acid units on one of the blocks. Diblock copolymer films microphase separate during film casting, and yield many different morphologies (spherical lamellar/ cylindrical ) depending on the ratio of the lengths of the two blocks. Metals such as Zn or Pb were selectively sequestered into the acid-containing microdomains by treating the films with aqueous metal salt solutions or with suitable organometallic reagents. Subsequent treatment with H2S formed metal sulfide nanoclusters within the microdomains. Initial experiments focused on PbS nanoclusters synthesized using tetraethyllead as the organometallic reagent PbS is interesting on account of its small effective mass which results in a large quantum size effect. The composite films containing PbS nanoclusters were characterized by X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, electron microscopy, and UVVis spectroscopy. The cluster size and hence its optical properties could be controlled by varying processing parameters such as the reaction temperature, the presence of coordinating bases, and the time of exposure to H2S. A model was developed to explain the effect of these processing pm.meters on the cluster size. The experiments were also complemented by a theoretical study of the electronic structure of PbS nanoclusters. The semi-empirical tight binding method was used to study the dependence of the band gap of PbS nanoclusters on their size. 'The effects of spin-orbit coupling were included, and the calculated band gaps agreed well with previously published experimental values for PbS. Applications of semiconductor nanoclusters in devices have been hindered by surface defects, which greatly reduce the quantum yield for photoluminescence and electroluminescence. This difficulty can be overcome by using doped nanoclusters, where the emitter would be an impurity atom in the nanocluster. We have synthesized manganese-doped and terbium-doped ZnS nanoclusters within diblock copolymer films. The cations (zinc and the impurity atom) were successively loaded from aqueous solutions of their salts. The extent of loading was tracked using ICP discharge emission spectroscopy. Doped nanoclusters were formed by treating the ion-loaded films with H2S. The Mn-doped ZnS nanoclusters have been characterized by UV-Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy. The photoluminescence spectra show the characteristic manganese emission. Excitation spectra, in conjunction with UV-Vis spectra for doped ZnS nanoclusters of different sizes, demonstrated that manganese emission occurs by excitation of the ZnS nanocluster. To-doped ZnS nanoclusters also showed emission characteristic of terbium ions in the cluster.
by Ravindra Kane.
Ph.D.
Harrison, Mark Geoffrey. "The charge excitations of conjugated polymers and oligomers : optical and electrical studies within field-effect devices". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360905.
Pełny tekst źródłaTimmons, Lena G. Boyd Jean Ann. "Functions of film music and sound within a genre : the revenge western /". Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4900.
Pełny tekst źródłaKimber, Shaun. "'Looking beyond the obvious' : the censorship of film violence within contemporary Britain". Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339962.
Pełny tekst źródłaHao, Qing, Yue Xiao i Hongbo Zhao. "Characteristic length of phonon transport within periodic nanoporous thin films and two-dimensional materials". AMER INST PHYSICS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621715.
Pełny tekst źródłaSong, Tingting. "Independent cinema in the Chinese film industry". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/43448/1/Tingting_Song_Thesis.pdf.
Pełny tekst źródłaZheng, Yungui. "Structure and ionic conduction in organised channels within polyethers in bulk and in LB films". Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301604.
Pełny tekst źródłaIoannou, Marios. "An investigation of the liquid fuel films within the cylinder of a spark ignition engine". Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325635.
Pełny tekst źródłaWasey, Jonathan Arthur Edward. "Spontaneous emission within wavelength-scale microstructures". Thesis, University of Exeter, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364468.
Pełny tekst źródłaGisler, Carolyn M. "Revisioning the documentary tradition from within : Patricia Gruben's Leylines (1993)". Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26689.
Pełny tekst źródłaDyer, A. N. "The effect of aggregation and orientation of amphiphilic molecules on second-harmonic generation within Langmuir-Blodgett films". Thesis, Cranfield University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341049.
Pełny tekst źródłaBooso, Benjamin David. "The Growth of Columnar Thin Films and Their Characterization Within the Visible and Near Infrared Spectral Bands". University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1272587327.
Pełny tekst źródłaEl-Noor, Mardo. "Narratwist alteration in meaning in a short film text : this exegesis is submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Art & Design, 2008". Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/408.
Pełny tekst źródłaRhee, Soue-Won. "L'autre visible dans l'oeuvre de Jacques Tourneur de 1942 à 1948". Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030043.
Pełny tekst źródłaTourneur's films are mentionned usually in relation with the off. This view focuses on the invisibility of the terrifying object. Yet the sense of the invisible, due to the director's interest in the supernatural, persists also in the frame, intensifing the potential of the other visible. The other visible in Tourneur's works come from the abstinence of the visual and the auditory, especially notable in moments of terror in the genre of fantastique but also more generally when the cinematographic fantasticality becomes perceptible. A detailed analysis of the extracts strives to catch the second song of the real, a unique miracle of the cinema, from which the spectral time of an athor visibility emerges. This study examines Tourneur's works from 1942 to 1948, especially the fantastique trilogy produced by Lewton. It takes into consideration the filming environment of B movies and the cinema's own effect. This journey leads to the possibility of a realism based on the fantastique
Soh, Tatcha Charles. "Sens et doublage cinématographique : étude de doublage de "Gone with the wind" (David O. Selznick et Victor Fleming, 1939), d'après le roman de Margaret Mitchell, traduit et doublé en français sous le titre "Autant en emporte le vent"". Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA030169.
Pełny tekst źródłaIn order to analyse the intellectual mechanism at work in the process of film dubbing, we have studied the intellectual process of film comprehension for an equivalent rewording of the dubbed version of the film. Basing our examples on extracts of "Gone with the wind", this study enables us to explain the mechanism through which meaning is formed and reworded during the process of film dubbing. We also analyse the major types of synchronisation (phonetic, syntactic and artistic) on which dubbing quality also depends. Finally, this study also enables us to show that regardless of the complexity of the film dubbing text which is an association of sound and image entailing the respect of synchronisation, meaning, which is at the heart of any form of translation, be it written or dubbed, should be clearly understood and reworded naturally and spontaneously
Robertson, Maxine Jane. "Sustaining knowledge creation within knowledge intensive firms". Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36333/.
Pełny tekst źródłaThompson, Robert Francis. "Management of architects within architectural businesses". Thesis, University of Salford, 2002. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26943/.
Pełny tekst źródłaRolfes, Michael A. (Michael Andrew). "Latent system dynamics within corporate venture capital firms". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107600.
Pełny tekst źródłaCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-63).
At the current pace and scale of sociotechnical progress, incumbent firms must seek out alternatives to traditional R&D in order to protect their current market position. By deploying corporate venture capital, many firms have leveraged the nimble, resourceful, and efficient nature of start-ups to inject compelling innovations into their core business lines. However, this arrangement must be constructed and cultivated carefully in order to optimize potential returns. Technological product or platform integration must be planned and executed, and value networks should be interleaved wherever possible. This paper asserts that the most effective corporate VCs have adopted these distinct practices, and further contends that these CVCs should view investment funding as a cost of doing business (rather than seeking long shot returns). These investors are inherently directing cash flow to an agile development workforce riding at the forefront of trends and technology, over which they maintain some level of strategic control. A series of interviews were conducted in order to capture the direct and indirect objectives, philosophies, and operations of corporate venture capital firms. Rather than simply validating or refuting the above hypotheses, this paper also qualitatively examines the insights and implications of the respondent data. Through the course of the analysis, numerous operational coherency issues were discovered, which are explored and discussed using principles from system dynamics, innovation theory, and management literature. Historical evidence and outside empirical studies were also leveraged to further highlight and underscore some of these key discoveries.
by Michael A. Rolfes.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
Zhao, Chunli [Verfasser]. "From individual to organization : knowledge sharing within firms and knowledge protection between firms / Chunli Zhao". Bremen : IRC-Library, Information Resource Center der Jacobs University Bremen, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1034621025/34.
Pełny tekst źródłaKamuriwo, Dzidziso Samuel. "Fast track knowledge development in new firms : an investigation of knowledge building dynamics within firms". Thesis, City University London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.446453.
Pełny tekst źródłaCohen, Geraldine T. "Barriers to marketing within professional service firms : a study of the understanding and application of marketing within accountancy and law firms". Thesis, Brunel University, 2006. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/395.
Pełny tekst źródłaROMAN, JOHANNA, i OLIVIA WIDMARK. "Individual activities within IT consultancy firms : How the individual efficiency within IT consultancy firms could be increased by improving individual activities". Thesis, KTH, Industriell Management, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-191221.
Pełny tekst źródłaToday’s IT consultants are expected to carry out an increasing variety of tasks and possess knowledge within more technology areas than previously. As the complexity within the IT industry evidently is stepping up and the consultants are expected to manage this complexity well, it becomes more crucial than ever for each consultant to work efficiently and contribute to the IT consultancy firms’ overall efficiency. This research therefore investigates how the internal efficiency within IT consultancy firms could be increased as how the firms’ leaders should act in order to enhance the efficiency in the short and long run. Our research is based on a case study of 17 interviews and two workshops performed at a Swedish IT consultancy firm located in Stockholm, as well as three external interviews and a coherent and iterative literature review. The internal efficiency within IT consultancy firms could be increased by improving their individual activities attached to their organisational routines. The individual activities indicating the greatest potential to increase the internal efficiency are the low-prioritised activities - individual activities that consultants tend to prioritise lower, which often results in postponement of the activities. Why these activities are performed more inefficiently than other individual activities are due to four common root causes: (1) insufficient structural capital, (2) insufficient cultural support, (3) poor communication policies, and (4) lack of incentives. Concrete actions for how this could be operated in the short as well as the long run, are provided by this research. Its managerial implications are therefore directed towards the team managers as well as top management within IT consultancy firms.
Borah, David C. "Financial analysis of private sector firms within the DoD". Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA300832.
Pełny tekst źródłaGriot, Clémence. "Internationalization of French firms within the medical technology industry". Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-5119.
Pełny tekst źródłaFrench SMEs within the medical technology industry follow an internationalization pattern which cannot completely be explained by traditional internationalization models. Going abroad is not a strategy to overcome challenges inherent to the medical technology industry. Instead, it is the positive consequence of their merge with internationalized firms, or an opportunity offered by their network.
Hunnes, Arngrimm. "Essays on wage structure and worker mobility within firms /". Bergen : Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/544163133.pdf.
Pełny tekst źródłaReis, Luís Henrique Vecchio. "The capital structure of portuguese firms within a crisis". Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/4565.
Pełny tekst źródłaIn this study we review the theoretical approach behind the capital structure decisions by presenting the ideas of the Modigliani and Miller (1958) Theorem that was based on the perfect capital markets world and with the argument of the law of one price. We show that there are two useful theories in the firm’s financing decision: the Trade‐off theory, which builds on Modigliani and Miller’s original arguments and identifies several relevant factors in determining a firm’s capital structure (such as taxes, costs of financial distress, and agency costs and benefits of debt), and the Pecking Order Theory of Myers and Majluf (1984). Further in this study we describe the evolution of the capital structure of the 16 largest listed non‐financial Portuguese firms (“PSI‐16”) during the recent crisis peaking in 2008. We present a description of the level debt (and net debt) compared to the book value and to the market value of the equity of such firms (debt to equity ratio). We find some evidence consistent with both theories. In particular we find a cautious utilization of debt due to higher risk of bankruptcy (and its costs), but still taking advantage of the interest tax shield (consistent with the trade‐off theory view), and an increase in retained earnings and absence of new issues (consistent with the pecking order theory). We explain that the firms’ financing decision can depend of several factors pointed by the Trade‐off Theory, such as tax advantages of using debt, agency costs and benefits of debt, and costs associated with financial distress. Yet, in times of crisis firms may prefer to use internal rather than external financing mainly because of asymmetry of information.
No presente estudo, fazemos uma revisão da literatura em relação às decisões de estrutura de capital através da apresentação do Teorema de Modigliani e Miller (1958), sendo este baseado num mercado de capitais perfeito com o argumento assente na Lei do Preço Único. Mostramos que existem duas teorias úteis para a decisão de financiamento de uma empresa: a Trade‐off Theory, que está assente sobre os argumentos originais de Modigliani e Miller e identifica vários factores relevantes na determinação da estrutura de capital de uma empresa (como os impostos, os custos de financial distress, custos de agência e benefícios do uso de dívida); e a Pecking Order Theory de Myers e Majluf (1984). Mais além neste estudo, descrevemos a evolução da estrutura de capital das 16 maiores empresas cotadas portuguesas não financeiras (“PSI‐ 16”) durante a recente crise que teve o seu pico em 2008. Apresentamos uma descrição do nível de dívida (e dívida líquida) comparada com o valor contabilístico e o valor de mercado das empresas (rácio debt to equity). Pudemos encontrar alguma evidência consistente com ambas as teorias. Por um lado, as empresas mostram uma certa cautela na utilização de dívida devido ao aumento do risco de falência (e os seus custos), mas ainda tirando vantagem do interest tax shield (consistente com a visão da Trade‐off Theory). Por outro lado, verificamos um aumento dos lucros retidos e nenhuma nova emissão (consistente com a Pecking Order Theory). Concluímos que as decisões de financiamento de uma empresa dependerão de diversos factores apontados pela Tradeoff Theory, como as vantagens fiscais na utilização de dívida, custos de agência e benefícios do uso de dívida, e custos associados com financial distress. Ainda, em tempos de crise as empresas podem preferir usar financiamento interno no lugar de externo, principalmente devido à assimetria de informação.
Feranita, Faranita. "Collaborative innovation in family firms : collaborating within and beyond". Thesis, Lancaster University, 2018. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/125615/.
Pełny tekst źródłaRezaee, Vessal Sara. "Collaboration Within and Between Firms in a Supply Chain". Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017SACLH004.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe quality of collaboration within and between firms in a supply chain is one of the main concerns which is studied in supply chain management and economics literature. There are many forces that affect the level of collaboration in different hierarchical settings: collaboration within firms (in team (group) level) and between firms (in firm level) (Drago and Turnbull, 1988; Siemsen, Balasubramanian, and Roth, 2007). Collaboration and communication within firms and between firms is studied in previous literature from different aspects and through analytical (Gibbons, 2005) and non-analytical methods (Mortensen and Neeley, 2012). This dissertation focuses on collaboration and cooperation between different parties, either within a firm or among different firms in a supply chain, in different contexts.This thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, I discuss incentive design specifically in the context of product development and how different types of collaboration affect optimal team composition in designing a product. In the second chapter, I focus on collaboration among a supplier and different retailers to improve sustainability in a supply chain in terms of improving social welfare by lowering waste in the supply chain. In the last chapter, I consider the collaboration among a supplier and different buyers. The main purpose of this chapter is to study buyers' outsourcing versus in-sourcing decision in a supply chain in the presence of learning-by-doing by players, considering the effect of competition in the market
Wearne, Olivia, i oliviawearne@hotmail com. "Crater Lake: A Study of the Monster Within". RMIT University. Creative Media, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20081209.160136.
Pełny tekst źródłaPeirano, María Paz. "Contemporary Chilean cinema : film practices and narratives of national cinema within the Chilean 'film community'". Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/50776/.
Pełny tekst źródłaSilva, Josmary Rodrigues. "Filmes ultrafinos de polímeros contendo cromóforos de azobenzeno". Universidade de São Paulo, 2003. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/76/76132/tde-15102014-115537/.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe formation of Langmuir films and the optical and electrical properties of mixed Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films were studied. Films were prepared using cadmium stearate (CdSt) and the polymers HPDR13, MMA-DR13 and IPDI-DR19CI. These polymers were characterized with differential scanning calorimetry, visible-ultraviolet spectroscopy (UVVis) and X-ray- diffraction. Surface pressure and surface potential isotherms of the Langmuir films indicated the presence of molecular aggregation due to dipolar interactions. UV-Vis spectroscopy suggested J-type aggregation of dipoles. Measurements on mixed LB film showed that the photoinduced birefringence depends on the number of LB layers, the power of excitation light and on the temper-re. A double exponential function and the Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts function were used for analyzing the experimental curves of growth and decay of the birefringence signal. The dependence of time constants of such functions on the temperature was also analyzed. Mixed LB films of IPDI-DR19CI/CdSt presented the most reproducible results of photoinduced birefringence, which was attributed to the better homogeneity of this type film probably due to the low dipolar aggregation. Experiments carried out with the polymer MMA-DRI3 at low temperatures revealed that the maximum of birefringence increases up to 120 K and then decreases for higher temperatures. Results under 120 K were analyzed using the free local volume theory and included photoisomerization and thermal rotational diffusion processes. Electrical measurements of LB films showed that all LB films present an ohmic conduction regime at low electric fields and a non-ohmic regime attributed to charge carrier injection into the film bulk. It is concluded that CdSt determines the conduction properties of mixed LB films
Eklund, Per. "Multifunctional nanostructured Ti-Si-C thin films". Doctoral thesis, Linköping : Thin Film Physics Division, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-8860.
Pełny tekst źródłaMtya, Amanda. "Evaluation of building information modelling (BIM) adoption, capability and maturity within South African consulting and construction firms". Master's thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30916.
Pełny tekst źródłaThnarudee, Chatchai. "Interaction dynamics of strategic planning within m-form based firms". Thesis, University of Canterbury. Management, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6576.
Pełny tekst źródłaDermarkar, Simon. "Commercialization of Auditing services offered by Professionals within Accounting Firms". Thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2011/28210/28210.pdf.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe core of the study will highlight the presence of important pressures ensuing from commercialism throughout the professional auditing practice in the post-Enron era. The analysis of these features will be distinguished into two segments; first the pressures ensuing from the auditor’s desire of being perceived as commercially effective, and second, the pressures ensuing from the auditor’s aim of privileging the clients and remaining competitive in the market. The general business aspects of auditing (i.e., rapidity, efficiency, profitability) monitored by some financial indicators (i.e., recuperation rate and hourly recuperated fee) which are controlled and promoted through certain formalized processes (i.e., budgeting and performance assessment) within accounting organizations explain specifically why audit practitioners have a desire to be perceived as economically effective. Moreover, empirical findings indicate a certain evolution and ongoing – sometimes aggressive – presence of such mechanisms which potentially lead to negative effects such as deterioration of the working environment and neglectful alteration of audit approaches. Also, in order to counter increasing pressures related to rivalry and to increase market share, accounting firms deploy an evolving low pricing audit engagement strategy aiming to retain (or seduce) the auditees. Conversely to what many would think, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its Canadian adaptation did not get rid of such tactic in the audit industry. In fact, the strategy has evolved to the point where some smaller firms have to keep up by reluctantly adopting such method in order to counter Big Four’s aggressive marketing behaviours. In turn, that approach creates a certain controversy between the risk level of the engagement and the profitability aim which often remains at a standard level no matter the variation of the fee. I present excerpts indicating that the low balling auditor might aim at minimizing questionings through the audit work or literally seek to find where the audit work can be cut.
Strydom, Johann J. (Johann Jurie). "Risk warehousing within insurance firms and the role of securitization". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65789.
Pełny tekst źródłaCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-58).
Insurance firms perform two key economic functions. First, they intermediate risk by marketing, selling and administering insurance policies. Second, they warehouse the risks underlying those policies. If viewed as separate businesses, intermediation and warehousing have very different risk profiles and characteristics. While intermediation is a function essential to the firm's role, the warehousing of those risks is mostly optional. It involves deciding to retain risks for the insurance firm's account rather than hedge the risk and thereby pass it on to a third party. The decision to retain or hedge risks is critical to a firm's financial outcomes. Insurance risks include underwriting factors like longevity, mortality and exposure to natural disasters. They also include economic factors like interest rates, currencies, counter-party default and equity markets. The consensus in the academic theory is that since insurance firms face significant frictional costs in raising capital, value-maximising firms will hedge all risks where the spread costs of the hedging instrument are low. This would seem to include most or all economic risks. As for underwriting risks, where hedging spreads are high, the decision will be a trade-off The firm will weigh up the reduced Risk-Bearing Costs offered by the hedging counter-party versus the Risk Transfer Costs incurred in these transactions. In practice it seems many firms hedge less than might be expected, retaining more economic and underwriting risk than may be explained by the theory. Factors which may be driving a bias towards risk are briefly explored, including regulatory drivers and an expectation of beating the market. Insurance-linked securitization offers benefits as a means of hedging risk and enhancing shareholder value through reduced Risk-Bearing Costs, although it faces informational problems that increase Risk Transfer Costs. Catastrophe Risk Bonds appear to have achieved a critical mass on the back of some historical capital shortages in the reinsurance industry. The life insurance securitization market could be poised for growth, but based on the history of Catastrophe Risk Bonds it may also require capital shortages in the life industry as a catalyst. Regulatory capital requirements will play a pivotal role in this regard.
by Johann J. Strydom.
M.B.A.
Dermarkar, Simon Pierre. "Commercialization of auditing services offered by professionals within accounting firms". Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/22508.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe core of the study will highlight the presence of important pressures ensuing from commercialism throughout the professional auditing practice in the post-Enron era. The analysis of these features will be distinguished into two segments; first the pressures ensuing from the auditor’s desire of being perceived as commercially effective, and second, the pressures ensuing from the auditor’s aim of privileging the clients and remaining competitive in the market. The general business aspects of auditing (i.e., rapidity, efficiency, profitability) monitored by some financial indicators (i.e., recuperation rate and hourly recuperated fee) which are controlled and promoted through certain formalized processes (i.e., budgeting and performance assessment) within accounting organizations explain specifically why audit practitioners have a desire to be perceived as economically effective. Moreover, empirical findings indicate a certain evolution and ongoing – sometimes aggressive – presence of such mechanisms which potentially lead to negative effects such as deterioration of the working environment and neglectful alteration of audit approaches. Also, in order to counter increasing pressures related to rivalry and to increase market share, accounting firms deploy an evolving low pricing audit engagement strategy aiming to retain (or seduce) the auditees. Conversely to what many would think, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its Canadian adaptation did not get rid of such tactic in the audit industry. In fact, the strategy has evolved to the point where some smaller firms have to keep up by reluctantly adopting such method in order to counter Big Four’s aggressive marketing behaviours. In turn, that approach creates a certain controversy between the risk level of the engagement and the profitability aim which often remains at a standard level no matter the variation of the fee. I present excerpts indicating that the low balling auditor might aim at minimizing questionings through the audit work or literally seek to find where the audit work can be cut.
Candeo, Matteo <1994>. "Automation technologies in accounting and auditing within public accounting firms". Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/15945.
Pełny tekst źródłaShintaku, Koji. "Essays on International Trade and the Division of Labor within Firms". Kyoto University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/200426.
Pełny tekst źródłaMatthews, Catherine S. "Trade credit management within small professional firms : practice, agency and structure". Thesis, University of Brighton, 2013. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/1a993efc-5b21-45d1-85d6-fd6c3bffc60d.
Pełny tekst źródłaSantoni, Simone <1983>. "Institutional pluralism within science-based firms: a scientist-environment fit perspective". Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2011. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/3884/1/santoni_simone.pdf.
Pełny tekst źródłaSantoni, Simone <1983>. "Institutional pluralism within science-based firms: a scientist-environment fit perspective". Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2011. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/3884/.
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