A large body of scholarship finds a negative relationship between oil abundance and economic growth. The existing empirical evidence on the oil curse, however, does not account for variations in the ownership of oil. This article investigates whether the effect of oil abundance on growth varies with ownership structures. It also investigates whether institutional quality influences the effect o...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine why and when employees hide knowledge. Individuals may tend to hide knowledge when they have strong psychological ownership feelings over knowledge. Therefore, this research builds and tests a theoretical model linking knowledge-based psychological ownership with knowledge hiding via territoriality. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collec...

We study how institutional blockholdings affect firm voluntary disclosure. document that concentrated ownership reduces firms’ disclosure measured by the propensity to issue management forecasts, comprehensiveness of guidance, engage in conference calls, and number 8-K filings. identify two channels through which blockholders First, have easier access managers substitute private for public info...

This paper discusses the use of World Wide Web-based conferencing in the Collaborative Teacher Education Program (CTEP) at Indiana University. The CTEP, a program offering distance education coursework to in-service teachers in rural communities throughout southern Indiana, is described, and some of the obstacles and limitations involved in promoting ownership in courses delivered at a distance...

This study investigates how the effects of government and foreign bank ownership on private credit vary in cases Islamic conventional banks using data extended from Claessens van Horen (2014) 29 dual banking countries 1995 to 2017. In support political view financial development, we find that presence state-owned seem be slightly less harmful flows than their peers, particularly period after gl...

ownership and freedom are two essential rights and of value to human beings. by contrast to preliminary reviews, the link between these two values is very solid, and they have a reciprocal relation.not only can they serve as the foundation of each other, but also in case of departing this equilibrium, each can have a negative effect on the other. the relationship between the two is the subject ...