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Outside Director Compensation in German Public Family Firms : An Empirical An…
Pascal Engel investigates how outside directors are incentivized in family firms that are publicly listed but still partly owned by members of the founding family. Owning families significantly influence their firms' corporate conduct with their own set of goals, sometimes in conflict with economically driven goals of the capital markets. The author analyzes how family shareholders exert their …
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- 978-3-658-07316-9
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- Familienunternehmen und KMU
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- 338.7 ENG o
Gene-Environment Interplay in Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan
ntriguing new findings on how genes and environments work together through different stages of life take the spotlight in this significant collection. Studies from infancy to late adulthood show both forces as shaping individuals' relationships within family and non-family contexts, and examine how these relationships, in turn, continue to shape the individual. Transitional periods, in which in…
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- 978-1-4939-2922-1
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- 362.82
7th International Conference on University Learning and Teaching (InCULT 2014…
The book comprises papers presented at the 7th International Conference on University Learning and Teaching (InCULT) 2014, which was hosted by the Asian Centre for Research on University Learning and Teaching (ACRULeT) located at the Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia. It was co-hosted by the University of Hertfordshire, UK; the University of South Australia; t…
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- 978-981-287-664-5
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- 370.15 SEV s
Our International Education : Stories of living, teaching and parenting abroad
What makes a person pack up and move to another country? What does she or he hope to gain from the experience? How do children fit into the picture? Our International Education presents the stories of three American women, a university professor, a high school math teacher, and a high school English as a second language teacher, who move to Hungary for a year to teach. Each woman brings her you…
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- 978-94-6300-286-8
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- 370 MAR o
(Re)Discovering University Autonomy: The Global Market Paradox of Stakeholder…
(Re)Discovering University Autonomy has far reaching implications for leaders and managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers by addressing modern challenges to university autonomy in Europe and beyond in a new and innovative way.
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- 9781137388728
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(Re)Constructing Memory: Textbooks, Identity, Nation, and State
This book engages readers in thirteen conversations presented by authors from around the world regarding the role that textbooks play in helping readers imagine membership in the nation. Authors’ voices come from a variety of contexts – some historical, some contemporary, some providing analyses over time. But they all consider the changing portrayal of diversity, belonging and exclusion in…
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- 9789463005098
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Organometallics and Related Molecules for Energy Conversion
This book presents a critical perspective of the applications of organometallic compounds (including those with metal or metalloid elements) and other related metal complexes as versatile functional materials in the transformation of light into electricity (solar energy conversion) and electricity into light (light generation in light emitting diode), in the reduction of carbon dioxide to usefu…
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- 978-3-662-46054-2
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- Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology
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- 333.79 ORG
Zones of Tradition - Places of Identity: Cities and Their Heritage
What is the heritage of our cities? Which are the monuments, places, and spaces in which it accumulates, and by which practices is it formed, handed down, appropriated? Gerhard Vinken takes the readers to twelve cities on three continents and analyses the diverse and contradictory heritage formations that have had a lasting impact on urban life. The vitality of urban heritage, as these vivid an…
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- 9783839454466
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- 307.2 VIN z
What is the Avatar?: Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Comp…
What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis and philosophical discussion, Klevjer argues that avatar-based gaming is a distinctive and dominant …
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- 9783839445792
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Van Gogh TV's Piazza Virtuale: The Invention of Social Media at documenta IX …
Piazza virtuale by the group of artists known as Van Gogh TV was not only the biggest art project ever to appear on television, but from a contemporary point of view the project was also a forerunner of today's social media. The ground-breaking event that took place during the 100 days of documenta IX in 1992 was an early experiment with entirely user-created content. This is the first book-len…
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