Collaboration is vital for the survival of companies in today’s fast moving economy and, therefore, finding and matching partners is an important task. This is true for many different scenarios ranging from companies building consortiums over organizations frequently staffing project teams to the recruitment of new employees. An empirical survey among the Top 1000 companies in Germany on state-...

BACKGROUND The need for better partnerships between Aboriginal organisations and mainstream agencies demands attention on process and relational elements of these partnerships, and improving partnership functioning through transformative or iterative evaluation procedures. This paper presents the findings of a literature review which examines the usefulness of existing partnership tools to the ...

Over just a six-year period from 2005-2011, five aid effectiveness initiatives were launched: the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), the International Health Partnership plus (2007), the Accra Agenda for Action (2008), the Busan Partnership for Effective Cooperation (2011), and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) (2011). More recently, in 2015, the A...

Schema matching is a critical step in many applications, such as data warehouse loading, Online Analytical Process (OLAP), Data mining, semantic web [2] and schema integration. This task is defined for finding the semantic correspondences between elements of two schemas. Recently, schema matching has found considerable interest in both research and practice. In this paper, we present a new impr...

This article examines the deferral value of an estate freeze. To be more specific, it models the value of the deferral of tax on future growth. From this model, we * Ling Chu is of Arthur Andersen LLP, Toronto; Glenn Feltham is of the University of Saskatchewan; and Robert Mathieu is of Wilfrid Laurier University. We would like to thank seminar participants at the University of Saskatchewan, th...

1Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, York, UK 2Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK 3Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK 4Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK 5Action against Medical Accidents, Croydon, UK 6Capsticks LLP, Leeds, UK 7Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, ...

This paper presents a theory, where managers can use the liquidity of securities as a choice variable to screen for “deep pocket” investors, those that have a low likelihood of facing a liquidity shock. We assume that there is information asymmetry about the quality of the manager between the existing investors and the market. The manager then faces a “lemons” problem when he has to raise funds...

7 Kenneth Ross is a partner in the Minneapolis office of Bowman and Brooke LLP, where he counsels manufacturers and product sellers on safety and liability prevention. Mr. Ross is Vice Chair of the Manufacturers’ Risk Prevention Subcommittee of the DRI Product Liability Committee. Matthew W. Adams is an engineer and recent law school graduate who plans to join the Minneapolis intellectual prope...