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The specific aim of this academic study is to investigate the possible impacts of external and internal factors in the unique process of privatization on the changes of management accounting practices in listed companies of Tehran Stock Exchange which more than 51% of this companies' shares have been transferred to the private sector. For this purpose, a theoretical framework scientifically bas...

Among the nation’s elite colleges and universities, black graduation rates vary dramatically from institution to institution. Many sociologists have suggested that this is due not to differences in the student bodies but to institutional factors; however, this ‘‘institutional hypothesis’’ has not been recently examined empirically. We test the institutional hypothesis for a set of elite institu...

This article aims to contribute an understanding of how social and institutional factors affect the language learning environments university students studying less-commonly taught languages (Turner, 1958), at beginner level by distance online. The empirical material is drawn from longitudinal case studies who enrolled in beginner-level courses LCTLs a regional Swedish early 2010s. study suppor...