The Advising Investment Bank's Industry Expertise and its Access to the Bidder's Private Information: Their Positive Effect on the Formation of Acquisition Sequences

We study the demand by organic farmers for technical advice using a quantile regression for the demand of organic farmers for consultations with private information providers. There is substantial heterogeneity in the impact of critical explanatory variables on consultations of organic farmer. Larger farm size has a positive effect on contacts, but the effect is absent for the highest number of consultations. Internet use has a positive marginal effect on visits to private information providers across each quantile, suggesting that expanded efforts to deliver programs through web-based resources are a useful investment for information providers.

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The Advising Investment Bank's Industry Expertise and Access to the Bidder's Private Information: Their Positive Influence on the Performance in Acquisition Sequences

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1840353 ◽

2011 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pascal Stock

Keyword(s):

Private Information ◽

Positive Influence ◽

Industry Expertise

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Factors affecting the use of electronic commerce from the point of view of the Saudi consumer in Al-Qunfudah Governorate: العوامل المؤثرة في استخدام التجارة الإلكترونية من وجهة نظر المستهلك السعودي بمحافظة القنفذة

المجلة العربية للعلوم ونشر الأبحاث مجلة العلوم الاقتصادية والإدارية والقانونية ◽

10.26389/ajsrp.f280120 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (9) ◽

Author(s):

Frag Hassen Alzele

Keyword(s):

Electronic Commerce ◽

Private Information ◽

Statistical Significance ◽

Main Tool ◽

Point Of View ◽

The Internet ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Effective Factors ◽

Private Data ◽

Positive Effect

The current study aims to identify the factors which impact using of e-commerce from the point of view of the Saudi consumer, the researcher relied upon the descriptive-analytical method as a proper method for this study, whereas the effective factors on e-commerce were described and analyzed data and private information of the research sample from the consumers at Al-Qunfudah Governorate, the study sample consisted of (100) consumers from the study community with total numbers (350) consumers and the researcher relied upon the random sample to assure the inclusivity of distribution the questionnaire to the study community, and he relied upon a form of the questionnaire as the main tool to collect the private data of this study. The important outcomes which the study reached are the existence of a positive effect with a statistical significance between all of the safety and privacy and the readiness of the companies and usage of e-commerce, and the important recommendations of this study were: the necessity to bind the communications companies to increase the means of safety and privacy on the internet, whereas this leads the dealers' fee of safety in practicing e-commerce, in addition to work to develop the means of communication and internet to publish e-commerce.

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Individual Commitment and Team Performance: Evidence from Mutual Fund Managers

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis ◽

10.1017/s0022109019000346 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 55 (6) ◽

pp. 2073-2098

Author(s):

Jiang Luo ◽

Zheng Qiao

Keyword(s):

Team Performance ◽

Private Information ◽

Mutual Fund ◽

Poor Performance ◽

Free Rider ◽

Fund Managers ◽

Free Rider Problem ◽

Psychology Literature ◽

Positive Effect ◽

Individual Commitment

The psychology literature suggests that individual commitment has a positive effect on team performance by mitigating the free-rider problem. With its detailed management-team information, the mutual fund industry provides a unique opportunity to study how individual managerial commitment is related to performance. Committed fund managers are defined as those who work only for one fund. With few incentives to acquire private information, teams with no committed members underperform those with committed members. These findings remain robust after we incorporate various controls. We also explore why non-committed teams have been used increasingly often despite their poor performance.

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Potential Uses of Vinegar as a Medicine and Related in vivo Mechanisms

International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research ◽

10.1024/0300-9831/a000440 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 86 (3-4) ◽

pp. 127-151 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Zeshan Ali ◽

Zhenbin Wang ◽

Rai Muhammad Amir ◽

Shoaib Younas ◽

Asif Wali ◽

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Keyword(s):

Chemical Structure ◽

Review Paper ◽

Heart Diseases ◽

Folk Medicine ◽

Active Role ◽

Current Review ◽

Different Types ◽

Positive Effect

While the use of vinegar to fi ght against infections and other crucial conditions dates back to Hippocrates, recent research has found that vinegar consumption has a positive effect on biomarkers for diabetes, cancer, and heart diseases. Different types of vinegar have been used in the world during different time periods. Vinegar is produced by a fermentation process. Foods with a high content of carbohydrates are a good source of vinegar. Review of the results of different studies performed on vinegar components reveals that the daily use of these components has a healthy impact on the physiological and chemical structure of the human body. During the era of Hippocrates, people used vinegar as a medicine to treat wounds, which means that vinegar is one of the ancient foods used as folk medicine. The purpose of the current review paper is to provide a detailed summary of the outcome of previous studies emphasizing the role of vinegar in treatment of different diseases both in acute and chronic conditions, its in vivo mechanism and the active role of different bacteria.

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Working Memory, Mental Prospection, Time Orientation, and Cognitive Insight

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000111 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 159-169 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Sevtap Cinan ◽

Aslı Doğan

Keyword(s):

Working Memory ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Factor Model ◽

Time Orientation ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Cognitive Insight ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Negative Effect ◽

Positive Effect ◽

Three Factor

This research is new in its attempt to take future time orientation, morningness orientation, and prospective memory as measures of mental prospection, and to examine a three-factor model that assumes working memory, mental prospection, and cognitive insight are independent but related higher-order cognitive constructs by using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The three-factor model produced a good fit to the data. An alternative one-factor model was tested and rejected. The results suggest that working memory and cognitive insight are distinguishable, related constructs, and that both are distinct from, but negatively associated with, mental prospection. In addition, structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that working memory had a strong positive effect on cognitive insight and a moderate negative effect on mental prospection.

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Employees’ Critical Thinking, Leaders’ Inspirational Motivation, and Voice Behavior

Journal of Personnel Psychology ◽

10.1027/1866-5888/a000193 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 33-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jing Jiang ◽

Ang Gao ◽

Baiyin Yang

Keyword(s):

Critical Thinking ◽

Field Study ◽

Voice Behavior ◽

Research And Practice ◽

Inspirational Motivation ◽

Positive Effect

Abstract. This study uses implicit voice theory to examine the influence of employees’ critical thinking and leaders’ inspirational motivation on employees’ voice behavior via voice efficacy. The results of a pretest of 302 employees using critical thinking questionnaires and a field study of 273 dyads of supervisors and their subordinates revealed that both employees’ critical thinking and leaders’ inspirational motivation had a positive effect on employees’ voice and that voice efficacy mediates the relationships among employees’ critical thinking, leaders’ inspirational motivation, and employees’ voice. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

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