Corporate Ownership and Initial Training in Britain, Germany and Switzerland

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

the concept of corporate social responsibility in germany, france, britain and iran with comparative approach

«corporate social responsibility» is the term of 1990 extensively, with the liberation of the economy and a profound gap between the role of the social and economic, was created, emerged. the theory is, at first, be fitted; as effects alien before it aspect of the commercial enterprises, solely for economic activity for your maximum profit for attention of return and profit without cost, for it...

Corporate versus local isomorphism? Collective representation practices of US MNCs in Britain and Germany

Ownership structure and corporate performance

This paper investigates the relation between the ownership structure and the performance of corporations if ownership is made multi-dimensional and also is treated as an endogenous variable. To our knowledge, no prior study has treated the corporate control problem this way. We find no statistically significant relation between ownership structure and firm performance. This finding is consisten...

Changes in Share Ownership and Corporate Monitoring

We document a significant decrease in the ownership structure of a large number of companies in the UK over the last decade. We find that the increase in firm's size and risk and the decrease in performance explain a large proportion of this change. We also find that the dilution of ownership through new issues rather than sales of stakes to be the main reason for the decrease in management own...