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Controlling shareholders and corporate value in Taiwanese firms

Governance: An International Review. 13(2), 313-325. According to Y. Yin-Hua's 2005 article "Do controlling shareholders enhance corporate value?" from Corporate Governance: An International Review, when managers have a larger personal investment in a company, they have a greater incentive to make…

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Frederick Taylor, W. Edwards Deming, and Philip Crosby's quality management approaches

Scientific management, originally developed by Frederick Taylor at the turn of the century, originated the concept of work design, or creating a work environment to maximize employee productivity, as well as "work-measurement, production control and other functions, that completely changed the…

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Persuasive argument strategies in car sales: ethos, pathos, and logos

In advertising, there are several different avenues of approaching customers. Generally, they are derivations of the three traditional forms of persuasive argument outlined by Aristotle and other teachers of advocacy (Halbert & Ingulli, 2008; Hursthouse, 1999).

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Reducing costs and supply chain risk at Riordan Manufacturing

Riordan's production and supply-chain distribution processes are currently subject to several variables that unnecessarily increase costs.

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Probability theory in Hansel and Gretel's forest adventure

Once upon a time, there was an honest woodcutter with two children named Hansel and Gretel. The woodcutter told the children that if it was a mild winter, many people would not want to buy logs and kindling, and the family income would very likely decrease.

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Rousseau's Confessions and the formation of Romantic selfhood

Books 1-6 of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions chronicle the author's life as a young man.

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Development and validation of a 10-item extroversion personality scale

Extroversion has been conceptualized as one of the core human characteristics within the constructs of many personality tests, including the popular Myers-Briggs and DISC personality assessments.

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Athenian morality and imperialism in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War

Did 'might make right' during the Peloponnesian War? "...we both know that decisions about justice are made in human discussions only when both sides are under equal compulsion; but when one side is stronger, it gets as much as it can, and the weak must accept that." -- Athenians at Melos (Book 5,…

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Benjamin Franklin's early life and printing career

Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 into a large family; he was the tenth son and one of seventeen siblings. He was self-educated because his family could only afford to send him to school for one year.

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Donna Langston's analysis of class as a barrier to social mobility

"In the myth of the classless society, ambition and intelligence alone are responsible for success," writes Donna Langston in her essay "Tired of playing monopoly." Yet American society is highly stratified by class markers and class assumptions, often in invisible ways that can advance or prove to…

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