incomplete contracts and corporate governance theory and evidence---case studies on chinese banking and u s franchising

... diversification of contracts across outlets as well as phases. Finally, we close the study with an empirical analysis on strategic interactions among franchise chains. Although such an issue, sometimes ... Bond s Franchise Guide xii Incomplete Contracts and Corporate Governance: Theory and Evidence Case Studies on Chinese Banking and U. S. Franchising...

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... reputational intermediaries such as investment banks and audit firms, securities laws and regulators such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States, and disclosure ... of corporate transparency allows a variety of research questions to be addressed. We discuss three sets of questions for future research: 1) the relation among measures of the quality...

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... Diana ProQuest Dissertations and Theses; 2007; ProQuest Central pg. n/a Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission ... without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further repro...

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... respondents participated of the study. Different survey techniques; namely focus group discussion, data collection by developing formats, persosnel observations and administration of semi-structured ... semi-structured questionnaires on milk and meat production practices were employed. Findings of focus group discussions revealed that the types of cattle husbandry practices of the...

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... benefits of air pollution controls. Using the same emissions and air quality scenarios as in the overall national study, the ecological case study assesses the impact of sulfur and nitrogen deposition ... time and across our scenarios, so we can estimate costs of reducing emissions and the benefits of those emissions reductions for each of our target years. TABLE 2-1. MAJOR EMISSI...

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... career. Education on values is a challenge that faces those responsible for teaching future professionals within the scope of the Society of Jesus university institutions. The empirical study carried ... through factor analysis, the results of a survey of students in the first and final session of the Faculty. The study derived the following conclusions: first, that students bring a...

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... FEBS E. coli AcpS thus expressed has broad substrate specif- icity. It utilizes apo-ACP and various acyl-CoAs as substrates to give corresponding acyl-ACPs. This prop- erty of AcpS was utilized to ... tyrosine fluorescence at 305 nm upon excitation at 280 nm. This was done because PfACP is devoid of tryptophan but contains one tyrosine resi- due. Fluorescence emission spectra of fully denatu...

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... to current questions in nature conservation, such as predicting the possible effects of land use changes. Habitat connectivity analyses based on predicted habitat suitability maps and results from mark ... Thomas & J. Settele (Eds) 2005 Studies on the Ecology and Conservation of Butterflies in Europe Vol. 1: General Concepts and Case Studies, pp. 9-10 © PENSOFT Publishers Sof...

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... weakened defense mechanisms often as a result of thermal burns, surgical operations, or another predisposing disease, such as cystic fibrosis and cancer [1,2]. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is the major surface ... phosphorylation but data on the location of the phosphate groups are contradictory [5–7]. The outer core region contains up to four D -glucose residues, one L -rhamnose residue, and...

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