This paper studies the role of publicly available accounting information in class conflict between capital and labour Victorian Britain. The company investigated – Staveley Coal & Iron Company Ltd is one earliest industrial enterprises registered under Companies Act 1862. period studied 1863, when was incorporated, through to 1900 by which time workforce comprised approximately 6400 colliery ir...

However, the popularity of the method, which was initially very high, has declined precipitously.8 Sales of the device fell from 800 per day in the first quarter of 1994 to about 60 per day in April 1995; the U. S. distributor speculated that “adverse publicity and negative word-of-mouth” drove the decline.9 While both the IUD and oral contraceptives have suffered declines in use attributed to ...

The right of publicity is a legal theory that enables individuals to protect themselves from unauthorized, commercial appropriations of their personas. Allowing the unauthorized use of an individual’s persona potentially poses the maximum harm when the persona is being appropriated in an objectionable context or for an objectionable purpose. In these instances, neither an award of injunctive re...

Theory and research from the marketing literature on customer-based brand equity were used to predict how positive exposure to 4 early recruitment-related activities-publicity, sponsorships, word-of-mouth endorsements, and advertising-may affect the application decisions of engineering students. Similar to prior marketing findings, the results suggested that early recruitment-related activities...

Meningococcal meningitis received wide publicity during August, a case of human rabies was reported, and a further 25 cases of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) were reported. In September a notable outbreak of salmonella food poisoning took place affecting nearly 200 delegates at a medical conference in Cardiff; a single case of salmonellosis was traced to contaminated enteral fee...