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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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- 978-3-658-08871-2
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- XXVI, 302
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- Auditing and Accounting Studies
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The Influence of Human Rights on International Law
Although human rights law is a relatively young field of international law, its content and core values today are of major importance for the interpretation of international law as a whole. As we witness a redefinition of sovereignty as a responsibility of states towards the people and a shift to greater relevance of the individual in international law in general, it is a logical consequence th…
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- 978-3-319-12021-8
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- XI, 248
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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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The Inexorable Evolution of Financialisation
Domna Michailidou addresses the questions above through exploring the inexorable evolution of financialisation into financial crisis through the examination of three middle-income countries: Mexico, Brazil and South Korea. Concentrating on emerging economies, and especially choosing three very different economies that all experienced financial crises in the 1990s, this book explores what lesson…
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- 978-1-137-55364-5
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- XV, 200
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The Indian Textile and Clothing Industry
This book examines the textile and clothing Industry of India and its trade scenario from a global perspective. New developments in international policies related to trade and investment and falling barriers to trade worldwide as well as within individual regional communities have transformed the structure of production and global competition in the textile and apparel industries across the wor…
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- 978-81-322-2370-2
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- XI, 105
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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The Impact of eConveyancing on Title Registration
This work is an assessment of how to manage risk in property transactions in the context of the move from paper-based to electronic conveyancing (eConveyancing). In particular the focus is on risks that impact on title registration, and the security, protection or lack thereof that this registration offers to land owners, third parties and property claimants. The impact is the extent to which a…
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- 978-3-319-10341-9
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- XV, 316
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The Impact of Religiosity on Fertility
The work investigates the impact of religiosity of women and men on their completed fertility in an international comparison considering a long time period. Sandra Hubert aims at uncovering all mechanisms through which religiosity and religious institutions can affect fertility. Hence, both the micro- and the macro-level of each country are explicitly integrated, and theoretically as well as…
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- 978-3-658-07008-3
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- XIV, 283
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The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education
This book presents perspectives for and by teachers, school and university administrators and educational researchers regarding the great impact pen and tablet technology can have on classrooms and education. presents three distinctly valuable threads of research: Emerging technologies and cutting-edge software invented by researchers and evaluated through real classroom deployments. Fir…
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- 978-3-319-15594-4
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- XXXIV, 387
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- Human–Computer Interaction Series
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Transforming Biodiversity Governance
Lebih dari lima puluh tahun konservasi global telah gagal membengkokkan kurva hilangnya keanekaragaman hayati, jadi kita perlu mengubah cara kita mengatur keanekaragaman hayati. Konvensi PBB tentang Keanekaragaman Hayati bertujuan untuk mengembangkan dan menerapkan kerangka kerja transformatif selama beberapa dekade mendatang.Namun, pertanyaan tentang apa yang dimaksud dengan tata kelola keanek…
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- 9781108856348
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- T 346.04695 HAM t c
The Impact of Mobile Phones on Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries
This book investigates at both the micro- and macroeconomic levels the impact of mobile phones on poverty and inequality in developing countries. To gauge the effects of mobile phones on these aspects, the author refers to the standard concept of technology adoption and also analyses the actual utilization of mobile phones as a means of communication and the degree to which they have supplanted…
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- 978-3-319-27368-6
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- VIII, 93
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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