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Ray, Rajat Kanta. "XII. Chinese Financiers and Chetti Bankers in Southern Waters: Asian Mobile Credit during the Anglo-Dutch Competition for the Trade of the Eastern Archipelago in the Nineteenth Century." Itinerario 11, no. 1 (March 1987): 209–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300009463.

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Certain European notions of the nature of the Asian economies — especially the peddling character of Asian trade and its contrast with the rational capitalist business organization which was supposed to be a purely European enclave superimposed by conquest on the peddling, precapitalist basis of Asian production and exchange — were formulated most clearly of all by Dutch sociologists and economists from their experience of Netherlands India of the nineteenth century and of the Eastern Archipelago in the age of Portuguese and Dutch voyages. They were not unaware of the existence of Chinese and Indian business groups in Southeast Asia with some of the features of early modern capitalism, but these were regarded as the bastard offspring of developed European capitalism. Such immigrant Asian groups were supposed to have sprung from the need of the Europeans for intermediaries to deal with the economically innocent natives and were thought to be completely dependent on servicing the European enclave with no autonomous business concerns of their own. This essay focusses on the Chinese financiers and Chetti bankers operating long distance credit networks in the Southern Ocean (Nanyang) before and after the opening of the Suez Canal (1869). The aim is to show that these immigrant business groups derived from a sophisticated financial and mercantile background in their home countries and that they conducted autonomous operations in the Eastern Archipelago with their own capital and business techniques: a large volume of such operations were conducted within a purely inter-Asian framework quite apart from the colonial trade with Europe, and in their dealings with the Dutch and the English banks and corporations, these towkays and nagarathars showed a strength and resilience which made ‘dependence’ and ‘collaboration’ a mutual process.
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L’Italien, François. "Financiarisation des organisations et organisations financières." Cahiers de recherche sociologique, no. 55 (December 3, 2014): 43–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1027681ar.

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Au cours des trente dernières années, la grande corporation de droit privé a connu des transformations structurelles qui ont affecté aussi bien sa dynamique interne que les modalités d’adaptation à son environnement. La mise en place d’un régime d’accumulation financiarisée a, parmi d’autres facteurs, entraîné une reconfiguration des principaux dispositifs de contrôle de la corporation, qui doit désormais composer avec un système d’organisations financières matérialisant un nouvel espace de régulation de la vie économique. S’appuyant sur les travaux récents de la sociologie institutionnaliste américaine de la corporation, cet article vise à identifier les principales logiques de restructuration de la grande corporation qui ont été concomitantes du déploiement du capitalisme financiarisé. Ces modalités seront schématiquement analysées à partir des pratiques des principaux acteurs qui leur ont donné une effectivité propre.
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Zavala Ortiz de la Torre, Iñigo. "Las «benefit corporations» norteamericanas." Deusto Estudios Cooperativos, no. 3 (March 10, 2021): 75–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.18543/dec-3-2013pp75-105.

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La Benefit Corporation es la nueva forma de empresa social surgida en el panorama legislativo norteamericano. Sobre la base de una estructura de sociedad mercantil capitalista, se pretende poder obtener resultados en beneficio del interés general. Este tipo social, trata de aunar los legítimos intereses financieros de los accionistas, con los de los otros stakeholders de la compañía. Para ello los administradores deberán aplicarse en la obtención de beneficios, pero a través del ejercicio de una actividad empresarial que, en su conjunto, tenga un impacto positivo en la sociedad y en el medio ambiente. Este impacto positivo, deberá poder ser, a su vez, objeto de evaluación a través de su contraste con normas estandarizadas, ideadas y aprobadas por terceros. Recibido: 10 junio 2013Aceptado: 30 julio 2013
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Huyghebaert, Nancy, and Frederik J. Mostert. "Rationale of securities and covenants in venture capital contracts: an application to South Africa." Corporate Ownership and Control 5, no. 4 (2008): 15–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv5i4p2.

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Venture capitalists are investing their money in portfolio enterprises and hence are putting their capital at risk. As portfolio enterprises may pursue different objectives than those of their financiers, venture capitalists may perceive agency problems as an important risk factor. Venture capitalists can limit the scope of these risks by specifying the form of financing that they provide to portfolio enterprises and/or by inserting particular covenants in their financial contracts. This paper first briefly reviews the various contractual provisions that can be used to decrease the extent of venture capitalists’ exposure to agency problems. Next, the importance of various securities and covenants is examined in the context of South Africa, where the venture capital market is still relatively young, but growing. Overall, it is concluded that venture capitalists in South Africa limit their exposure to risk, but in a different manner than is typically done in the USA
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Neave, Edwin H., and Lewis D. Johnson. "Elements of strategic negotiation under uncertainty: The case of venture capitalists." Corporate Ownership and Control 6, no. 3 (2009): 429–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv6i3c4p2.

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This paper uses the theory of transactions economics to model the process whereby venture capitalists and financiers negotiate the terms of financing. We show that the process has both static and dynamic elements, and involves incomplete information in a world of uncertainty. Central to the arrangement is the alignment of borrower attributes and lender capabilities.
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FREDRIKSEN, ØYSTEIN, and MAGNUS KLOFSTEN. "VENTURE CAPITALISTS' GOVERNANCE OF THEIR PORTFOLIO COMPANIES." Journal of Enterprising Culture 09, no. 02 (June 2001): 201–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218495801000110.

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Several sources have emphasized the importance of the entrepreneurial economy, and the role venture capitalists (VCs) plays as financiers. VCs are often actively and personally involved in their portfolio companies, but the cost of governance is high and they therefore have to select when to be active participants. Four different risks are identified in this paper: agency risk, business and market risk, coalition risk, and conformity risk. Weak support is found for the categories of agency and business and market risk. The data speak in favor of VCs getting more involved when the portfolio companies experience some kind of trouble. Their activity level increases when the portfolio companies have an inexperienced CEO, when the companies are in an early stage of their development, are young, have a weak board of directors, and/or a weak performance.
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Pandher, Gurupdesh. "Financier Search and Boundaries of the Angel and VC Markets." Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 43, no. 6 (September 11, 2018): 1223–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1042258718780476.

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This paper studies how critical entrepreneurial finance outcomes such as the investment return and equity division are shaped by venture characteristics, financier risk preferences, and competitive searching. Our analysis uses a double-hazard agency model in which financiers determine the equity division to maximize the expected utility of their investment return while entrepreneurs search for the best deal. Model results provide new theoretical insights on the venture funding cycle, the coexistence of angels/venture capitalists (VCs) with heterogeneous risk aversion, and risk separation in the entrepreneurial finance market. The model predicts that financiers with higher funding capacity and advisory capabilities (e.g., VC firms) will prefer to fund at later stages as their expected investment return rises with the venture’s initial value and financier productivity. Competitive searching by entrepreneurs enables financiers with a diverse set of risk preferences to coexist profitably by reducing the advantage (disadvantage) of lower (higher) risk aversion financiers and making investment returns more similar. Further, the model shows the emergence of a risk separation cutoff beyond which only angels/VCs with lower levels of risk aversion can profitably fund riskier ventures.
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Burris, Val. "The Two Faces of Capital: Corporations and Individual Capitalists as Political Actors." American Sociological Review 66, no. 3 (June 2001): 361. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3088884.

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O’Toole, James. "The Prospects for Enlightened Corporate Leadership." California Management Review 61, no. 3 (March 31, 2019): 72–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008125619839677.

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In his recent book, The Enlightened Capitalists, James O’Toole explores the challenges faced by two centuries of business pioneers who tried to do well by doing good. While many of their firms were financially successful, few of their progressive business practices turned out to be enduring. In light of this mixed historical record, this article explores the future of enlightened business leadership. It critically evaluates six trends that will greatly determine the extent to which corporate executives will introduce virtuous practices in the coming decade, including a new generation of enlightened capitalists, several consortia of socially progressive business leaders, the growth of social entrepreneurship, the emergence of benefit corporations, and changes in investor attitudes.
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Sylla, Richard. "Schumpeter Redux: A Review of Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales's Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists." Journal of Economic Literature 44, no. 2 (May 1, 2006): 391–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jel.44.2.391.

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Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists is an ambitious probe into capitalism's past, present, and future. Whereas Joseph A. Schumpeter viewed capitalism as doomed because it was losing its political and social supports, Rajan and Zingales see it more as threatened from within by established or “incumbent” industrialists and financiers who become enemies of free markets. The authors contend that free financial markets foster economic progress while undermining the ability of incumbents to have their way. Rajan and Zingales may overstate the significance of “the great reversal” of financial development in the middle decades of the twentieth century, and their evidence and interpretations are sometimes flawed. Nonetheless, they make a strong case for the fundamental importance of financial development for economic modernization and their warnings about the antimarket tendencies of incumbents are well worth pondering.
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Mhlongo, Madumelana Innocentia. "Refocusing a parastatal financier a case study of the Mpumalanga Agricultural Development Corporarion /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08212007-104655.

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Liu, Yue. "Does institutional investor composition influence managerial myopia? : the case of accounting restatements /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1192184781&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-65). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Lahiani, Mohamed. "The capital structure puzzle: On the existence of an optimal capital structure." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2350.

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Corporate finance researchers have long been puzzled by low corporate debt ratios given debt's corporate tax advantage. What makes the capital structure debate especially intriguing is that the different theories represent such different, and in some ways almost diametrically opposed, decision-making processes.
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Lee, Chin-hang. "The politics of alliance the United Front work on the Chinese capitalists in Hong Kong, 1950s - 1980s /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38310855.

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Lee, Chin-hang, and 李展恆. "The politics of alliance: the United Front work on the Chinese capitalists in Hong Kong, 1950s - 1980s." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38310855.

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Eckermann, Matthias. "Venture capitalists' exit strategies under information asymmetry evidence from the US venture capital market /." Wiesbaden : Dt. Univ.-Verl, 2005. http://www.myilibrary.com?id=134343.

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Gosnell, Thomas Francis. "An empirical investigation of high end-of-day transaction returns between 1978-1985." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76099.

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Using a random sample of transactions data from the time period of September 1, 1978 through August 31, 1985, the high end-of-day transaction returns noted by Wood, Mclnish and Ord and by Harris were examined to determine their persistence over time and their relationship to a commonly used measure of daily security performance. Additionally, final transactions were classified by type of price change-reversal or continuation-in order to document whether the high end-of-day returns are the result of security price appreciation or the result of increases in transactions at the ask price. New information provided by this study can be summarized as follows: 1. The end-of-day anomaly persisted over the time period of the study and appeared to be strongest in the last three years. 2. A Friday effect was found in that the mean return to the final transaction on Friday was at least as great or greater than the mean final transaction returns on the other days of the week. 3. A relationship was found to exist between CRSP excess return level (good day/bad day) and the final transaction return, and there was evidence that the final transaction may have had a large impact on the CRSP excess return. 4. Reversals are more frequent than continuations on the final trade, particularly after 3:56pm, and the mean return to reversals is greater than the mean return to continuations.
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Maseko, Sipho Sibusiso. "From pavement entrepreneurs to stock exchange capitalists: the case of the South African black business class." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2000. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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The evolution of policy regarding the black bourgeoisie -- Issues in the struggle for black capitalism -- The roles and effects of NAFCOC (National African Federation Chamber of Commerce) and FABCOS (Foundation of Business and Consumer Service) -- The development of black capitalists in the urban areas -- Constraints on, and the performances of black entrepreneurs -- 'Normalisation' of the economic playing field.
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Taylor, Philip Davis. "Investor preferences in the securities options market." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54794.

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Systematic mispricing by the state-of-the-art option pricing models is a paradox in financial economics as both the magnitude and direction of the mispricing is debated. The models have been found to overprice out-of-the-money and deep-in-the-money call options while underpricing in-the-money and deep-out-of-the-money calls. In addition, research has shown these biases have different signs in different time periods. We propose that when investors maximize expected utility for Friedman-Savage-Markowitz utility functions, the option mispricing observed in the market will result. The theories and empirical tests in the literature of higher-order utility functions and risk-neutral valuation (RNV) in the options market are presented. Though investor attitudes towards risk are irrelevant in the non-arbitrage world of modern option pricing, to the extent the options market does not meet the non-arbitrage conditions, investor risk preferences will affect the pricing of options. Risk-loving traders will bid up market prices relative to risk-neutral model prices; risk-averse traders will bid down prices. And investor risk preferences can, and do, change over time as market conditions change. New tests are run to analyze the relationship between mispricing biases and investor preferences before and after the historic stock market crash of October 19, 1987. We find mispricing biases which imply a decreased risk aversion on the part of investors in the IBM call option markets for the period prior to the market crash and mispricing biases which imply an increased risk-averse (and decreased risk-loving) behavior in those markets following the crash. Similar analyses are also performed in the Microsoft call options markets with less conclusive results.
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Wassmuth, Britta. "Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Hof, Stadt und Judengemeinde : soziale Beziehungen und Mentalitätswandel der Hofjuden in der kurpfälzischen Residenzstadt Mannheim am Ausgang des Ancien Régime /." Ludwigshafen am Rhein : Pro Message, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0715/2006506565.html.

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Books on the topic "Capitalists and financiers Corporations"

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Iwasaki Yatarō "Mitsubishi" no kigyōron: Nippon kabushiki-gaisha no genten. Tōkyō: Asahi Shinbun Shuppan, 2010.

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Gua tou de jiang hu: Jin rong da e ru he ying xiang shi jie? = Guatoujianghu. Nanjing: Feng huang chu ban chuan mei ji tuan, 2011.

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Han'guk chabon'ga kyegŭp yŏn'gu: Taegiŏp chabon'ga ŭi hyŏngsŏng kwa idong. Sŏul T'ŭkpyŏlsi: Kohŏn, 2012.

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Stella, Gianfranco. Ferruzzi & Gardini: Storie di miliardi e d'ambizione. [Rimini]: SO.ED.E., 1994.

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The hide and seek corpse. Waterville, Me: Thorndike Press, 2005.

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Cesare, Peruzzi. Il caso Ferruzzi: Dai primi miliardi di Serafino al blitz di Gardini sulla Montedison : una dinastia padana alla conquista del mondo. Milano: Edizioni del Sole 24 ore, 1987.

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Chŏng-pʻyo, Chʻoe, and Chang Chi-sang, eds. Chaebŏl: Sŏngjang ŭi chuyŏk inʼga tʻamyok ŭi hwasan inʼga. [Seoul]: Pibong Chʻulpʻansa, 1991.

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1950-yŏndae Hanʾguk ŭi chabonʾga yŏnʾgu. Sŏul: Paeksan Sŏdang, 1993.

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Maurice, Zeitlin. Landlords & capitalists: The dominant class of Chile. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1988.

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Allison, Eric W. I raiders di Wall Street. [Milano]: Sperling & Kupfer, 1988.

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Dennis Huber, Wm. "Marx, capital, capitalists, and capitalism." In Economics, Capitalism, and Corporations, 168–76. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003019794-14.

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Burris, Val. "Corporations, Capitalists, and Campaign Finance." In Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research, 247–62. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68930-2_14.

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"Redefining Value in Owner-Managed Corporations." In The New Financial Capitalists, 91–123. Cambridge University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511581687.004.

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Cohen, Michael R. "Networks from Above." In Cotton Capitalists. NYU Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479879700.003.0005.

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The fourth chapter analyzes the top tier of an ethnic network that brought credit from global financiers to the merchants and farmers of the Gulf South. Through the lens of Lehman Brothers, this chapter explores how networks carried global investment to the Gulf South. This occurred in an era where business transactions were based on trust, which was often fostered by shared ethnicity—largely confining Jewish and non-Jewish networks to separate spheres. Lehman Brothers, for example, worked closely with Jewish-owned banking houses such as Lazard Frères, J. W. Seligman & Co., and Kuhn, Loeb & Co., in much the same way that Anglo-American banks such as J. P. Morgan & Co. cultivated networks with other non-Jewish businesses. Utilizing these ethnic networks, Lehman Brothers brought international investment to America, and continuing to rely on ethnicity to build trust, the firm loaned money to scores of cotton businesses in the Gulf South, many of which were also operated by Jews. With access to this credit via ethnic networks, these businesses could survive downturns in the economy and thrive in the postbellum milieu.
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Cohen, Michael R. "Networks from Below." In Cotton Capitalists. NYU Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479879700.003.0006.

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The fifth chapter analyzes the bottom tier of an ethnic network that brought credit from global financiers to the merchants and farmers of the Gulf South, exploring how the Southern firms with which Lehman Brothers worked dispersed this global investment throughout local economies. In some instances, Lehman Brothers’ customers sold directly to rural farmers and plantation owners, providing them with the credit necessary to purchase farming needs, foodstuffs, and personal goods. But in other instances, firms with which Lehman Brothers worked extended credit to smaller shopkeepers, who could then stock their own shelves at the start of the season, sell goods to their customers on credit, and, if all went well, be repaid by their customers after the harvest. For these smaller businesses, this line of credit was the difference between success and failure, particularly when the vicissitudes of the economy necessitated leniency from creditors. While this leniency was risky for lenders, trust-based economic networks mitigated risk. In this way, Jewish merchants created an ethnic niche in the cotton industry, securing global investment, funneling it to the South, and dispersing it throughout local economies.
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"Nano World." In Advances in Multimedia and Interactive Technologies, 218–47. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4627-8.ch011.

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This part of the book provides information and projects for the readers about the omnipresence of nanoscale objects – soft matter, colloids, liquid crystals, carbon nanotubes, nanoshells, and the developments in nanoscale and molecular-scale technologies involving these small structures. Nanotechnology concerns structures measuring between 1 and 100 nanometers and allows manipulating individual atoms and molecules. Since Norio Taniguchi of Tokyo Science University first used the term nanotechnology in 1974, the governments, corporations, and venture capitalists invest every year billions of dollars in nanotechnology and more than a half of advanced technologies incorporate nanotechnology products in different ways. In addition, developments in nanotechnology demand hiring in millions of trained nanotechnology workforce (Nano.gov, 2012).
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Ershov, Bogdan. "Socio-Economic Situation in Russia in the 19th-Early 20th Centuries." In Political, Economic, and Social Factors Affecting the Development of Russian Statehood, 47–60. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9985-2.ch003.

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This chapter discusses the processes of capitalization of Russia in the 19th century. It is shown that during the period of imperialism, quantitative and qualitative changes occurred in the composition and position of the Russian bourgeoisie. The economic face of the Russian bourgeoisie, as well as the bourgeoisie of other developed capitalist countries, revealed the most advanced forms of capital organization. But the structure of the upper strata of the Russian bourgeoisie was different from the Western European segment. Before the First World War, two types of Russian capitalists were distinguished, both in origin and in the form of exploitation and organization of capital. During the period of imperialism, Moscow gradually became monopolistic. The Moscow capitalist elite has not yet become a financial oligarchy, it has not created large corporations, and financial and industrial groups.
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Griep, Mark A., and Marjorie L. Mikasen. "Bad Company: The Business of Toxicity." In ReAction! Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195326925.003.0008.

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In the movies, chemical companies maximize profits by poisoning their customers, workers, neighbors, and the environment, or they terrorize or outright kill the heroic insider who becomes a whistleblower. English professor Phillip Lopate argued in the New York Times that movies about business in general present a cartoon view of corporate structure (usually there isn’t one), making them the “fantasy villain,” a nearly faceless evil represented in the narrative by a “wall of Suits” (Lopate 2000). Business professor Ribstein goes further and asserts that the overwhelmingly negative view of business in American film narratives is fueled by filmmakers who feel their artistic vision is constrained by profit-making capitalists (Ribstein 2005). Ribstein begins his argument with a summary of nine movies about “Evil Corporations.” He doesn’t appear to realize that seven of them were companies that handle or produce chemicals: The China Syndrome (1979), Silkwood (1983), The Fugitive (1993), A Civil Action (1998), The Insider (1999), Erin Brockovich (2000), and Mission: Impossible II (2000). All of these films, and many others, were considered for inclusion in this chapter but, as the fastest growing category of chemistry in the movies, only two from this evil seven made it into the present chapter: Silkwood (1983) and Erin Brockovich (2000). The evil chemical company theme plays out in several ways. In the deeply satiric comedy Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1998), the pharmaceutical company’s happiness drug provides a foundation upon which the comedy troupe bases their humor. This chemical gravitas also lends weight to a number of fictional dramas that explore the theme of toxicity, such as One Man (1977), I Love Trouble (1994), and The Constant Gardener (2005). The company presidents in these movies murder, or hire thugs to murder, the individuals who choose to expose the toxicity of their products. Evil chemical companies are found in “based on a true story” dramas such as in Silkwood (1983), Erin Brockovich (2000), and Bhopal Express (2001). Knowing that the story is based on true tales of toxic chemicals lends considerable weight to these story lines.
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