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Underpricing versus gross spread: New evidence on the effect of sold shares at the time of IPOs

Chahine S. (, 2008)

This paper sheds light on the impact of initial owners' decisions to reduce underpricing at the time of initial public offerings (IPOs). Using a sample of 172 French IPOs, empirical findings indicate that the larger the ...
Uneasy alliances: Lessons learned from partnerships between businesses and ngos in the context of CSR

Jamali D.; Keshishian T. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2009)

Interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has proliferated in academic and business circles alike. In the context of CSR, the spotlight has traditionally focused on the role of the private sector particularly in ...
United Arab Emirates female entrepreneurs: Motivations and frustrations

Itani H.; Sidani Y.M.; Baalbaki, Imad (, 2011)

Purpose - This paper seeks to summarize the results of a study assessing the status of United Arab Emirates (UAE) female entrepreneurs and attempts to sketch the pattern of theUAEfemale entrepreneur. It aims to draw a ...
Using cognitive interviewing for the semantic enhancement of multilingual versions of personality questionnaires

Daouk-Oyry L.; McDowal A. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2013)

We discuss the use of cognitive interviewing with bilinguals as an integral part of cross-cultural adaptation of personality questionnaires. The aim is to maximize semantic equivalence to increase the likelihood of items ...
Using signature matrix to analyze conflicting frames during the IS implementation process

Azad B.; Faraj S. (AMSTERDAMPO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2013)

Analyzing and theoretically accommodating the presence of diverse perspectives or frames during the implementation process has proved conceptually complex and empirically elusive within the extant IS research. The purpose ...
Valuing large engineering projects under uncertainty: Private risk effects and real options

Mattar M.H.; Cheah C.Y.J. (, 2006)

In all large engineering projects, valuation constitutes an important step during the initial stage as each stakeholder assesses the prospect of his or her investment. The complexity of valuation increases dramatically in ...
Variable neighborhood descent for the unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem

Charalambous C.; Fleszar K. (SINGAPORE5 TOH TUCK LINK, SINGAPORE 596224, SINGAPORE, 2012)

The NP-hard problem of scheduling jobs on unrelated parallel machines with the objective of minimizing the makespan is addressed. A variable neighborhood descent heuristic hybridized with mathematical programming is proposed. ...
Variable parameters lengths genetic algorithm for minimizing earliness-tardiness penalties of single machine scheduling with a common due date

Allaoua H.; Osmane I. (2010)

Modern manufacturing philosophy of just-in-time emphasizes that a job should be completed as close as possible to its due date to avoid inventory cost and loss of customers goodwill. In this paper, the single machine ...
VC Board Representation and Performance of US IPOs

Chahine S.; Goergen M. (MALDENCOMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA, 2011)

This paper studies the impact of five dimensions of venture capitalist (VC) power on the likelihood of the board representation of VCs in their portfolio firms at the initial public offering (IPO) as well as the effect of ...
Venture capitalists, business angels, and performance of entrepreneurial IPOs in the UK and France

Chahine S.; Filatotchev I.; Wright M. (OXFORD9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, OXON, ENGLAND, 2007)

Using a unique sample of 444 entrepreneurial IPOs in the UK and France, this paper analyses the investment patterns and the stock-market performance effects of two types of early stage investors: venture capitalists (VCs) ...
Walking a tightrope or navigating a web: Parameters of balance within perceived institutional realities

Karam C.M.; Afiouni F.; Nasr N. (OXFORDTHE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND, 2013)

This paper leverages Structuration Theory within the greater framework of Institutional Theory to broaden the balance discourse cross-culturally. We argue that the application of the balance concept can be expanded if one ...
Weak and dynamic controllability of temporal problems with disjunctions and uncertainty

Brent Venable K.; Volpato M.; Peintner B.; Yorke-Smith N. (, 2010)

The Temporal Constraint Satisfaction Problem with Uncertainty (TCSPU) and its disjunctive generalization, the Disjunctive Temporal Problem with Uncertainty (DTPU), are quantitative models for temporal reasoning that account ...
What if there was no oxygen?: Responding to hypothetical questions in an intelligent tutoring agent

Yorke-Smith N.; Heymans S.; Chaudhri V. (International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS);, 2013)

Our aim is for intelligent tutoring agents to replace traditional and even online textbooks with personalized, adaptive, one-to-one instruction. We focus on science subjects, and describe an approach to answering hypothetical ...
What shapes Global diffusion of e-government: Comparing the infuence of national governance institutions

Azad B.; Faraj S.; Goh J.M.; Feghali T. (HERSHEY701 E CHOCOLATE AVE, STE 200, HERSHEY, PA 17033-1240 USA, 2010)

Prior research has established the existence of a differential between industrialized and other countries for e-Government diffusion. It attempts to explain this divide by identifying economic and technical variables. At ...
When idealists evade taxes: The influence of personal moral philosophy on attitudes to tax evasion - A Lebanese study

Sidani Y.M.; Ghanem A.J.; Rawwas M.Y.A. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd; HOBOKEN111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA, 2014)

This paper explores attitudes regarding tax evasion and the relationship between personal moral philosophy and such attitudes in a weak tax environment. The results confirm the multidimensionality of tax evasion attitudes. ...
Which acquirers gain more, single or multiple? Recent evidence from the USA market

Ismail A. (, 2008)

This study considers shareholder returns using 16,221 US takeovers between 1985 and 2004. It finds that single acquirers out-perform multiple acquirers by 1.66percent, and that the gap widens to 5percent in equity exchange ...
Whole networks versus inter-organizational systems: Exploring common ground for us e-prescribing

King N. (, 2012)

Healthcare networks driven by technology, such as e-prescribing, play an increasing role in care coordination. These networks are a mix of public and private entities whose governance and performance have only recently ...
Women, work, and Islam in Arab societies

Sidani Y. (2005)

Purpose - This paper attempts to present varying discourses pertaining to women's work and how it is impacted by interpretations of Islam. Design-methodology-approach - Current discourses from various viewpoints are presented ...
Work-family conflicts and job attitudes of single women: A developing country perspective

Sidani Y.M.; Al Hakim Z.T. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2012)

This study addresses work-family conflicts and job attitudes of white-collar single women and the ensuing work-related attitudes in a developing country context. After an overview of gender roles in Arab society, several ...

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