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The Influence of Information Order Effects and Trait Professional Skepticism …
Kristina Yankova addresses the question of what role professional skepticism plays in the context of cognitive biases (the so-called information order effects) in auditor judgment. Professional skepticism is a fundamental concept in auditing. Despite its immense importance to audit practice and the voluminous literature on this issue, professional skepticism is a topic which still involves more…
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The Influence of Human Rights on International Law
This volume discusses the impact of human rights law on other fields of international law. Does international human rights law modify other fields of international law? Contributions focus on possible spillover effects of human rights on international economic or international criminal law. Does international human rights law have a streamlining effect on international law as a whole? This migh…
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- 978-3-319-12021-8
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- XI, 248
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- Springer Cham
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The Influence of Blockholders on Agency Costs and Firm Value
Markus P. Urban investigates the influence of large shareholders (the so-called blockholders) on agency costs and firm value, thereby accounting for blockholder characteristics and blockholder interrelationships. The work provides a profound theoretical and empirical analysis on the nature and effect of shareholder engagement with due regard to the specifics of the German institutional environm…
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- 978-3-658-11402-2
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- XXXVI, 462,
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- Auditing and Accounting Studies
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Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation
Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation engages with translation, in both theory and practice, as part of an interrogation of ethical as well as political thought in the work of three bilingual European authors: Bernardo Atxaga, Milan Kundera and Jorge Semprún. In approaching the work of these authors, the book draws upon the approaches to translation offered by Benjamin, Derrida, Ricœur and Del…
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- 9781787352070
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- 420 HUL e
Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante
Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante presents new research by international scholars on the themes of ethics, politics and justice in the works of Dante Alighieri, including chapters on Dante’s modern ‘afterlife’. Together the chapters explore how Dante’s writings engage with the contemporary culture of medieval Florence and Italy, and how and why his political and moral thought still …
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- 9781787352278
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An Appalachian Curriculum for Fourth Grade–Looking for Native Ground : Envi…
An Appalachian Curriculum is the product of a week-long teacher workshop held on the campus of Appalachian State University in June, 1995. The purpose of the workshop was to create materials that allowed children from the Southern Appalachian region to gain a better understanding of the environment and the natural and cultural resources available on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Western North Carol…
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- 9781469642451
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- 375 ISA a
Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems - II Proceedings of the Sixth Confe…
Covers a broad spectrum of topics, including computational mechanics, fluid dynamics, engineering design and material science Reports on innovative applications in the fields of manufacturing, robotics and production engineering Addresses the needs of academics and professionals alike
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Design for Experience Where Technology Meets Design and Strategy
Presents a strategic perspective and design methodology that guide the process of developing digital products and services that provide?real experience? to users. Only when the material experienced runs its course to fulfilment is it then regarded as?real experience? that is distinctively senseful, evaluated as valuable, and harmoniously related to others. Based on the theoretical background of…
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- 9783319143040
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- 338.71
The Relevance of Academic Work in Comparative Perspective
This book is the first of two volumes that look at the changed landscape of higher education and the academic profession. This volume focuses on academic work, examining the significant changes that have taken place in the backgrounds, specialisations, expectations and work roles of academic staff. The academic profession is ageing, and becoming increasingly insecure, more accountable, more int…
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- 978-3-319-11767-6
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- X, 252
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- The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
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The Reformation in Economics
This book carves the beginnings of a new path in the arguably weary discipline of economics. It combines a variety of perspectives – from the history of ideas to epistemology – in order to try to understand what has gone so wrong with economics and articulate a coherent way forward. This is undertaken through a dual path of deconstruction and reconstruction. Mainstream economics is broken d…
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- 978-3-319-40757-9
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