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Patrick M Reid | |
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| Industrial placements can play a key role in developing an individual undergraduate’s softer skills, giving the opportunity for experiential learning, which is often sought by employers when selecting future employees. This article reviews current student industrial placement activity in the United Kingdom, a typical recruitment process and the implications for stakeholders. The combination of good academic achievement and the demonstration of broader skills developed in a varied work place environment where responsibility, collaboration and teamwork have been practiced and developed over time are highly appreciated by employers.
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George Tovstiga | |
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| The authors provide evidence of the interlocking networks of members of Supervisory Boards of Directors (Aufsichtsrat) in Germany, ie., directors who are members of more than one Board. Since the Boards play an active role in corporate mergers and takeovers, and particularly in promoting anti-takeover mechanisms, the extent of such interlocks is important. In addition, cross-shareholdings also contribute to anti-takeover strategies (Schmid and Wahrenburg, 2003), in combination with directors’ social networks. As well as evidence on interlocking networks of directors, the authors identify major members of the network and measure the density of networks in the DAX 30, Germany’s main stock market index.
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Thomas Hemphill | |
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| In 2007 and 2008, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), mostly from Asia and the Middle East, invested billions of dollars in the stocks of major US financial institutions, but prior to these investments, SWFs were relatively unknown in the US. Following major investments by SWFs in the US stock market, both investors and regulators are taking a closer look at them. The cause for concern is that many SWFs disclose very little about their corporate governance, organization structure, investment objectives, and short- and long-term targets, among other issues. These concerns led to fears by some that foreign governments might be using SWFs to acquire strategic assets in the U.S. for geopolitical gains. In this paper, we look at SWFs’ investment objectives, the benefits they bring to target firms, the rising public concern in the U.S. about SWFs, the governance structure of SWFs, their revenue sources and investment preferences, the performance of their U.S. investments, and their regulatory supervision.
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Jamie Morgan | |
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| Since mid-2007 private equity finance activity has undergone significant changes. The nature of these changes is intimately related to the current banking crisis and the underlying causes of the ‘credit crunch’ based on the development of an ‘originate and distribute’ model of lending and based on securitisation. These changes significantly affected risk perceptions in the finance system, which in turn qualitatively changed the environment within which risk had been modelled and considered manageable. Private equity finance can thus be explored as both a contributing factor in the current crisis and then as a set of adaptive practices responding to it. This raises important issues regarding how regulators approach private equity finance from a broader context.
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Reinhard Huenerberg | |
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| This article aims at overcoming the separation of Marketing and Operations Management, two classic management disciplines usually polarized in academic studies and in practice. Two examples – customer satisfaction and multi-channel use, as well as a case study indicate the way this can be done. The authors draw material from research in progress which will result in a new textbook developing a number of ideas on the marketing-operations interface and an overall optimization.
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21 November 2008 |
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