Dissertations / Theses: 'Lane Company'

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Rigg, Suzanne. "Scots in the Hudson's Bay Company, c.1779 - c.1821." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2008. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU511840.

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This dissertation examines Scottish involvement in the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), c.1779 to c.1821. It surveys the Company's recruitment practices, and the national and regional contribution of Scots to the HBC, demonstrating that Orkneymen were disproportionately numerous throughout the entire period under examination. This study explores their motivation for entry to the HBC, and the various routes (and obstacles) to advancement of salary and station. It also seeks to establish whether Scottish networks operated in the fur trade, and the utility of such connections. Although Scots encountered many opportunities for betterment in Rupert's Land, they were also confronted with the challenge of working in a commercially competitive and remote wilderness environment. Extreme climatic conditions, insufficient food/medicinal supplies, laborious work duties, and violent trade rivalry meant that illness, disability, and death were common occurrences. The extent to which the paternalistic directors endeavoured to mitigate such hardships, and tended to the welfare of employees and their dependents, is assessed. Finally, the social, cultural and economic impact of Scots on both their temporary and home residences is explored. This discussion includes the significance of 'Scottishness' in the fur trade and the importance of 'home' to temporary migrants. In addition, this study highlights the difficulties of remitting savings and domestic support money to dependents in Scotland, and the successes of employees who fulfilled their personal ambitions on their return to Orkney, and climbed onto the property ladder.

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Wilson, Jon E. "Governing property, making law : land, local society and colonial discourse in Agrarian Bengal, c.1785-1830." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368131.

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Stirling, Terri M. "Alcan Jamaica Company and small-scale agriculture, an analysis of competing land uses and changing land-use patterns." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39155.pdf.

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Feldman, Roger A. "Recruitment, training and knowledge transfer in the London Dyers’ Company, 1649-1826." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/243/.

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This thesis studies the role of a craft guild as a training organisation. The study looks at the London Dyers’ Company binding and joining records over 150 years, available from the mid seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. The study initially deals with transmission of knowledge from master to apprentice, a single generation. It then looks at factors associated with chains of transmission over several generations, taking advantage of available occupational specialization data. The Dyers’ Company records of membership are estimated to be at least 94 percent complete from 1710-1792, and probably similarly complete in the earlier period 1660-1710. In 1750, 93 percent and in 1792 81 percent of dyers in livery companies were members of the Dyers’ Company. In those same years, 34 percent in the livery of the Dyers’ Company were not practicing dyers. Chapters 2 and 3 describe the dynamics of the Dyers’ Company from binding and joining information. The apprentice binding data includes information about families of apprentices, their places of residence, their father’s occupation, along with what premia were paid when they were bound. Information is presented about time as a journeyman, about how many apprentices an individual master bound in a lifetime, and about women apprentices and women who bound apprentices. Scattered information about specialized dyeing occupations allowed categorisation of chains of transmission by occupation. One specialty, calico printing, potentially the most innovative of any in the dyeing trade, was not fully represented in the Dyers’ Company records. Sixty one percent of all chains were no more than three generations long. Chains involving silk dyers were more often longer than those involving dyers with no stated specialty. Long chains might either be evidence of technological conservatism, a more technically difficult craft, greater use of innovation, or increased economic activity.

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Kulyasov, Sergey. "Upgrading LAN infrastructure in manufacturing company to support wireless technology." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2005. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2005/2005kulyasovs.pdf.

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Van, Hoy Teresa Miriam. "The railroad as public utility and the public : land, labor, and rail services in southern Mexico /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Al, Hinai Mansoor Talib. "The impact of privatization on company performance : the case of Egypt." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6868/.

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Privatization is a debated topic for decades now. This study assesses the results of the Egyptian privatization programme. The study assess the impact of privatization on 61 IPO privatized companies for a period of 16 years. The objective of the study is to examine two key aspects; first, the impact of privatization by comparing pre to post privatization performance. Secondly, to relate the impact of privatization to the transaction itself, the performance of the privatized companies is compared to a fully private set of companies. The analytical framework used examined the profitability, operating efficiency, the sales, employment level and leverage. By applying various statistical models, the results of the study indicated that the privatized companies post treatment examined a significant positive change in profitability, and operating efficiency and a negative impact on the leverage and employment level. Further, by comparing performance to that of private companies, it showed that privatization brought significant increase in EBIT and ROE with no significance for ROS, and ROA. There was insignificant change for Sales Efficiency and significant for the Income Efficiency; While the results of the leverage measures indicated that the privatization treatment Total Debt/Total Equity are not significant and on the contrary to the Total Debt/Total Equity. The Employment measures and Sales were significant. The comparison relative to the private showed that the DID coefficient was significant for the EBIT, ROE, the employment, sales, the leverage and the Income Efficiency; While the results was not significant for ROS, ROA, Sales Efficiency.

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Benac, David T. "This land is all terrible rough : a history of access to forest resources in Carter County, Missouri /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3099609.

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Henriksen, Line. "In the Company of Ghosts : Hauntology, Ethics, Digital Monsters." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-127021.

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This thesis explores French philosopher Jacques Derrida’s ’hauntology’ through the lens of digital monsters and feminist theory. Hauntology – a pun on ‘ontology’ and ‘haunting’ – offers an ethics based on responsibility towards that which cannot be said to fully exist, yet has an effect on our everyday lives nonetheless. Like the figure of the ghost, such undecidable existences are neither absent nor present, here nor gone, of the past or the future. In other words: they haunt. By engaging with hauntology through contemporary stories of digital monsters – such as The Curious Case of Smile.jpg, Welcome to Night Vale and Mushroom Land TV - the thesis discusses how such troubling hauntings might be imagined, and what it means to think an ethics based on responsibility towards the undecidable. In this way, the thesis brings together hauntology and digital media, arguing that thinking with and through the figure of the ghost as well as the digital monster may lead to different and critical ways of imagining both the world and ethics. In short, drawing upon feminist theory and creative writing, the thesis maps out a relational ethics of hauntings and internet story-telling.
Denna avhandling utforskar den franske filosofen Jacques Derridas ’hauntologi’ genom digitala monster och feministisk teori. Hauntologi - en ordlek på ontology och haunting - erbjuder en etik som bygger på ansvar gentemot det som inte kan sägas helt existera, men ändå har en effekt på vårt dagliga liv. Liksom figuren ’spöket’ är sådana obestämbara existenser varken frånvarande eller närvarande, här eller borta, i det förflutna eller framtiden. Med andra ord: de hemsöker. Genom analyser av samtida berättelser om digitala monster - som The Curious Case of Smile.jpg, Welcome to Night Vale och Mushroom Land TV - diskuterar avhandlingen hur sådan oroande hemsökelser kan bli föreställda, och vad det innebär att tänka en etik baserad på ansvar gentemot det obestämbara. På detta sätt sammanför avhandlingen hauntologi och digitala medier ihop för att argumentera att akten att tänka med och genom spöket som figur och det digitala monstret kan leda till annorlunda och kritiska sätt att föreställa sig både världen och etik på. Avhandlingen bygger på feministisk teori och kreativt skrivande för att utforska en relationell etik baserad på hemsökelser och internet-berättelser.

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Palmer, Gerry. "Embeddedness and workplace relations : a case study of a British-based Japanese manufacturing company." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/59425/.

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This thesis presents an analysis of workplace relations in a British-based, Japanese manufacturing company. The extent and nature of managerial hegemony within Japanese transplants, and the ability of workers to pursue informal means of 'counter-control', are both highly contested issues within the 'Japanisation' debate. It is these two related issues that are addressed here. The research is based primarily on a nine-week period of participant observation as a shopfloor worker. This was supplemented by interviews and 'shadowing' of key personnel in the case study company. In addition, interviews were held with staff in buyer and supplier firms trading with the case company. This thesis devises a framework based on embeddedness (Granovetter, 1985) to analyse the research data. Using the constructs of networks and social relations which constitute embeddedness, four network structures and three categories of social relations are applied to workplace relations in the case study company. It is argued that the embedded ness framework provides a way of resolving concerns not addressed satisfactorily by other academic studies of the labour process in Japanese transplants. As this framework has not previously been applied to the labour process debate it represents a novel contribution to academic debate. A number of key conclusions emerge. First, workers have retained the capacity to engage in resistance in at least some high-surveillance organisations. This illustrates the significance of setting control and surveillance systems in the organisation's social and economic context. Second, a 'holistic' approach is required in order to understand the complexity of the labour process and to establish why workplace relations take their specific form in particular contexts. Third, in analysing Japanese transplants, the policies of the companies and actions of management need to be explored with awareness of their potential shortcomings and tensions, rather than solely from a perspective of coherence and effectiveness.

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Chika-James, Theresa. "Implications of organisation-host community relationship on organisational culture management : the case of a Nigerian oil and gas company." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/98449/.

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Business practitioners, policy makers and the media have been engaged in ongoing discussions and practical initiatives towards organisational culture management. This is in spite of the range of complexities that academics have identified relating to the viability of managing organisational culture. Previous academic studies on organisational culture management, in view of these complexities, have focused mainly on analysing internal factors and intricacies in the process of culture management. This has resulted in culture change or stability outcomes. In addition, most of these studies based their analyses within Western organisational context with very few studies on organisational culture management in developing economies, especially in Africa. This thesis extends the literature on organisational culture management with a focus on analysing the influence of an external factor on attempts towards managing organisational culture. Using a single case study approach, the study analyses an overlooked research context of an African organisation, exploring the relationship context between a Nigerian oil and gas company (undergoing a culture management at the time of the study) and its host communities (external factor) in the Niger Delta region. The study draws on Perrault et al. (2011) stakeholder tetrad as a stakeholder theoretical lens to analyse host community stakeholders and their relationship with the case organisation. It then examines the implications of this relationship context towards attempts to manage an ethical culture in the organisation. The findings, drawn from a qualitative research (2014-2016), indicate that organisational-external environment context, with strong ties on power and exchange relationships, would influence attempts of executives to manage organisational culture that is alien to ambient society. The study offers contributions to knowledge on organisational culture management by introducing a stakeholder theoretical lens to explore external and internal stakeholders of organisations in order to evaluate the implications of internal-external relationship on culture management. The study also contributes to stakeholder management studies by developing Perrault et al. (2011) stakeholder tetrad, particularly the stakeholder tactic construct; and contributes to African management and organisation studies by highlighting the aspect of adaptation relationship practices, a combination of international and local expectations and cultures. Further theoretical and practical contributions and implications of this study are discussed in the concluding chapter.

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Lam, Alice. "Equal employment opportunities for Japanese women : changing company practice." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1990. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/126/.

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The central aim of this thesis is to examine the extent to which the growing pressures for equal opportunity between the sexes has forced Japanese companies to adapt and modify their employment and personnel management practices in recent years. It analyses the major social and economic factors prompting Japanese companies to adopt more open employment policies towards women since the mid-1970s and the change programmes introduced by management. The thesis especially looks at how companies have reacted to the 1985 Equal Employment Opportunity Law and in the light of this considers how far the present legislation will bring about fundamental changes in the Japanese employment system towards more egalitarian treatment of women workers. A detailed case study was conducted at Seibu Department Stores Ltd., both before and after the introduction of the EEO Law, as a critical test of the possibility of introducing equal opportunities for women in a large Japanese company. Seibu was chosen because it is a big employer of women and is a company operating in an industry which has strong economic and- commercial incentives to offer women better career opportunities. All the more important, Seibu is regarded as a 'leading edge' company in personnel management reforms. The study reveals that despite many economic and social reasons that were in favour of change towards greater sexual equality in Seibu, and especially after the introduction of the EEO Law, change towards more egalitarian treatment of women has been very limited. This study illustrates the depth of the resistance to change in the core employment practices in large Japanese companies. The present EEO Law has little potential for undermining the structural mechanisms which perpetúate sexual job segregation in the employment system. The final part of the thesis speculates on the future prospects of introducing equal opportunities for women in Japanese companies. In the light of the present socio-legal constraints, the author puts forward a number of practical policy suggestions for engendering more pervasive long-term changes towards equal employment for Japanese women.

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Quayle, Annette Maree. "Managing climate change by the numbers in a UK energy company : the double-disciplinary power of accounting." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/59763/.

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This thesis explores the modern power of accounting in shaping individuals, organisations and society. It does so by examining a series of theoretical, empirical and historical issues at the intersection of accounting and climate change. Accounting’s modern power is studied from a disciplinary perspective derived from the work of Michel Foucault (Foucault, 1977) and Hoskin & Macve (1986; 1988) and concentrates on those historical moments where power-knowledge practices change in ‘fundamental and significant ways’. It suggests one such moment is at the intersection of accounting and climate change, where climate change becomes an object to be managed ‘by the numbers’ through accounting-based measures of control. These ideas are examined through two separate but related modes of analysis. At a macro level, the research traces the emergence of the UK Climate Change Act (2008) as an example of accounting travelling to a new governmental domain. The micro portion of the study examines the emergence of climate change as a new non-financial performance measure in a large UK energy company. The research suggests that the intersection of accounting and climate change was made possible by the modern power of accounting in tying disciplinary subjectivities and objectivities together whilst operating simultaneously at the level of individuals, organisations and government. Studying these interrelations provide a particularly apposite example of accounting’s double-disciplinary power to increasingly manage our world ‘by the numbers’.

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Baker, Howard Robert. "Law transplanted, justice invented : sources of law for the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land, 1670-1870." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23209.pdf.

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Nigol, Paul C. "Discipline, discretion and control, the private justice system of the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land, 1670-1770." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ64879.pdf.

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Fernholz, Olga. "Innovating for today while innovating for tomorrow : a test of innovation ambidexterity theory in a leading technology company." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/54947/.

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The theory of ambidextrous organisation in management and organisational studies latches onto the idea of simultaneous and equally high degrees of incremental innovation based on prior knowledge (exploitation) and discontinuous innovation based on experimentation and new knowledge (exploration). It claims that any organisation should be ambidextrous to succeed long term. This thesis research puts ambidexterity theory to test. Using the logic of falsification, I conduct an exploratory case study of the semiconductor IP designing company ARM to tests whether the central claims of ambidexterity apply in the empirical context of this successful technological company. The ARM is a leading-edge innovator and a successful company by any common sense criteria. I find that ARM used and banned the ambidexterity rationale because its underlying assumptions misrepresent the interactions between ARM and its Partners in the process of innovation across its vast Ecosystem. I find that ambidexterity assumptions break down in the context of the Ecosystem. Ambidexterity theory displays some serious limitations when applied to the company's innovation in System-on-a-Chip technology that powers ubiquitous computing and assembles an Ecosystem of Partners. The revealed limitations of ambidexterity thinking demand to reconsider the claim of ambidexterity's universal value and to reassess the fitness of ambidexterity assumptions for explaining innovation in the technology of the future.

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Madhanpall, Anwhar. "An evaluation of a public-private partnership as an alternative delivery mechanism to enable the effective redistribution of land in KwaZulu-Natal : the case of Inkezo Land Company." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2503.

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Thesis (MPA (School of Public Management and Planning))--University of Stellenbosch, 2008.
The dawn of a democratic South Africa in 1994 was seen as the beginning of a new era in South Africa. Land Reform, as a matter of moral reconciliation, and within the context of rural development, was high on the agenda to be addressed by the new democratic ANC-led government. Although South Africa’s history of systematic racial land dispossession is not unique; the extent of the dispossession, and racial nature of the dispossession gave a uniqueness to South Africa’s land history. In 1994 the racially skewed land ownership pattern reflected that 55 000 white commercial farmers owned 87 per cent of the land, yet the African majority of had access to 13 per cent of the marginal land. The land reform imperative was restricted in approach by the compromise reached during the negotiations resulting in a transitional government for South Africa. In addition, the early 1990’s, was a period of increasing dominance of the neo-liberal ideology with its minimal state and minimal state intervention, and reliance on the free market principles informing interventions and programmes. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa enshrined private property rights protection; and whilst given recognition to the requirement of land reform it enshrined a market-led approach with enabling legislation and policy statements such as a “willing-buyer/willing-seller” requirements for redistribution and market related prices for land acquisition. The Department of Land Affairs, a national government department, was tasked with the development and implementation of land redistribution. Therefore, despite the neo-liberal principles informing land reform, a state-led approach towards the actual implementation was embarked upon. In 1998 a target was set to be achieved within 5 years; which the Department failed dismally to reach. The target was then extended to be reached by 2014, and the thesis predicts that unless the delivery mechanism currently utilised for land redistribution is changed the target will not be reached by 2014. The New Public Management paradigm, and various alternative delivery mechanisms have been considered, in addition to assessing the delivery mechanisms and approaches towards land reform in Brazil and the Philippines in an attempt to identify suitable delivery mechanisms for land reform in South Africa to enable it to achieve its target and objectives. A detailed evaluation of an existing Public-Private Partnership, which exists to implement land redistribution was undertaken in terms of primary data collection and secondary data statistics. The evaluation assessed whether this delivery mechanism will enable targets to be met and land redistribution objectives in relation to rural development be achieved. The thesis argues that the Public-Private Partnerships alternative delivery mechanism is a suitable vehicle to delivery land redistribution across agriculture commodities, with key recommendations on matters to address within the PPP mechanism. For land reform to be implemented at the required scale and to achieve its developmental objectives innovation is required within partnership approaches and not a traditional bureaucratic-led approach.

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Gonçalves, Lívia Bueloni. "Em busca de Companhia: o universo da prosa final de Samuel Beckett." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-08052015-102539/.

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O presente trabalho realiza uma leitura da chamada segunda trilogia em prosa de Samuel Beckett composta pelos textos Company (1980), Ill Seen Ill Said (1981) e Worstward Ho (1983), com especial atenção para a obra Company. Tais textos fazem parte da prosa final do autor, marcada pelo hibridismo de gêneros e por um intenso questionamento da linguagem e da representação literária. Destacando as características desta fase procuramos argumentar que, em meio a todos os experimentos do narrador beckettiano, há um mecanismo de busca de companhia na própria narrativa, tema que atravessa diversos trabalhos de Beckett e se evidencia com a publicação de Company. A necessidade de companhia através do ato de narrar, contudo, processa-se de forma ambígua e conflituosa.
This dissertation presents a reading of Samuel Beckett´s so-called second trilogy in prose comprising the works Company (1980), Ill Seen Ill Said (1981), and Worstward Ho (1983), with special focus on Company. These texts belong to the authors late prose, characterized by a mixture of genres and the intense questioning of both language and literary representation. While highlighting the specificities of this period, we argue that among all the experiments of the Beckettian narrator there is a mechanism that seeks for company within the very narrative a theme present in many of Becketts works, which is further stressed by the publication of Company. The need for company through the act of narrative, however, unfolds in an ambiguous and conflicted manner.

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Andersen, Morten Damgaard. "The influence of national business systems and company characteristics on the cross-national transfer of employee participation practices : foreign acquisitions of UK and Swedish multinational corporations." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2006. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34702/.

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The importance of multinational corporations (MNCs) on a global scale has continued to increase over the past decades. This is evidenced in rapidly rising levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) coupled with high amount of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity. MNCs are likely to have a significant impact on their surroundings, including national governments, suppliers, customers, trade unions and employees. This research focuses on the impact on the latter by investigating post-acquisition transfers of employee participation practices in MNCs. This thesis examines Swedish and UK MNCs and their foreign acquired subsidiaries. Following a review of comparative industrial relations, institutionalism, international business, national business systems (NBS), and M&A literature, the influence of NBS and nine specific company characteristics on MNCs' ability and willingness to transfer employment practices are discussed. The contribution to knowledge is fivefold. Firstly, it extends the understanding of employment practices transfers following cross-border acquisitions. Secondly, it contributes to the global-local debate of how MNCs try to implement global standard employment practices on the one hand and on the other to adapt and conform to local conditions. Thirdly, it provides an insight into MNCs from small and large economies engaging in transfers. Fourthly, it compares acquisition integration approaches from Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian MNCs. Fifthly, it informs about the forces at national and company levels influencing MNCs in their choice of employment practices abroad. Empirically, the research is based on detailed case studies. Case data has been collected from five MNCs - two UK and three Swedish - and their foreign acquired subsidiaries. Interviews have been carried out at corporate and subsidiary levels in the UK and Sweden in the native languages. The research draws some significant conclusions. Firstly, the influence of the NBS on the transfer of employment practices varies according to the type of practice in question. Secondly, it adds another dimension to Bartlett and Ghoshal's (1998) MNC typologies, the brand structured MNC. In this type of MNC, practices are transferred according to brands rather than national patterns. Thirdly, the pattern of transfer supports the argument of a flow of transfers from 'dominant' systems to 'follower' systems both in terms of forward and reverse transfers. Finally, the results reveal that transfers are not only influenced by the NBS but also company characteristics are significant. This is most clearly demonstrated by the post-acquisition integration approach and the 'significance' of the subsidiary.

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Pylyser, Erik Hans Peter. "The evolution of low-mass close binary systems with a compact component." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 1988. http://dare.uva.nl/document/92719.

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Hall, Andrew Thomas. "“The Principle Object of Their Affections:” The Changing Nature of Borders and Boundaries in the Lake Erie World, 1794-1825." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1434539798.

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Hawkins, Natalie. "From Fur to Felt Hats: The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Consumer Revolution in Britain, 1670-1730." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31075.

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This dissertation seeks to explore the wide reaching effects of the ‘Consumer Revolution of the Augustan Period’ (1680-1750) by examining the Hudson’s Bay Company from the perspective of the London metropole. During this period, newly imported and manufactured goods began flooding English markets. For the first time, members of the middling and lower sorts were able to afford those items which had previously been deemed ‘luxuries.’ One of these luxuries was the beaver felt hat, which had previously been restricted to the wealthy aristocracy and gentry because of its great cost. However, because of the HBC’s exports of beaver fur from Rupert’s Land making beaver widely available and therefore, less expensive, those outside of the privileged upper sorts were finally able to enjoy this commodity. Thus, the focus here will be on the furs leaving North America, specifically Hudson’s Bay, between 1670 and 1730, and consider the subsequent consumption of those furs by the British and European markets. This thesis examines English fashion, social, economic, and political history to understand the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Consumer Revolution, and their effects on one another.

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Lang, Jürgen Karl [Verfasser]. "Das Compact Disc Digital Audio System : ein Beispiel für die Entwicklung hochtechnologischer Konsumelektronik / Jürgen Karl Lang." Aachen : Hochschulbibliothek der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1020294728/34.

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Bak, Jun Hyeong. "Sustainable urban development in South Korea : compact urban form, land use, housing type, and development methods." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4781/.

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Over the past few decades, South Korea has experienced economic development and urbanisation, the effects of which have included environmental degradation and social problems. The principles of sustainable development have gained support as an approach to dealing with these issues; and the compact city has been proposed as a means of delivering sustainable development without the sprawl of Western cities. This thesis examines the applicability of the compact city to South Korea, particularly to large-scale developments, through the perspective of sustainable development. The research questions, ‘How and why have urban developments in South Korea been accompanied by compactness?’ and, ‘What implications does this have for sustainable development?’ are examined through two case studies: Yong-in, a city developed by diverse methods; and Se-jong, a city developed as a single new project. The case studies demonstrate that new settlements by high-rise apartments in South Korea have achieved a high degree of compactness, and residents have appreciated their liveability and made them their popular housing choice. The thesis concludes that the compact city in South Korean urban development is not only feasible, but is acceptable to residents; and it suggests a compact city model and strategies applicable in the South Korean context.

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Galindo, Abarca Maria Fernanda. "Neo-institutionalism and corporate responsibility initiatives : the case of cement corporations in Mexico adopting the United Nations Global Compact." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/63681/.

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This study adds to institutional theory. It addresses the paradox of embedded agency, which has been central in the study of institutions and organizations, i.e. how can actors change institutions when they are conditioned by the same institution they are trying to change? This debate is addressed by analyzing the process organizations follow when adopting the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). The research is based on theory generation from case study evidence. It is an interpretative study based on four cases of adoption of the UNGC in the cement industry in Mexico. The study takes into account the interaction between three levels of analysis: field; organizational; and individual. Early neo-institutional studies neglected intra-organizational phenomena. However, this study shows how individual behavior provides the micro-foundations necessary to address the paradox of embedded agency. The study relates theory to practice. It offers insight to the principle- and reporting-based Corporate Responsibility Initiatives (“CRIs”) phenomenon; there is no prior research on the process organizations follow when adopting these initiatives. This research constructs a model, showing how principle- and reporting-based CRIs are translated, not diffused, when incorporated by organizations. The process of translation explains how initiatives are reshaped and reinvented when taken-up by individuals in organizations. However the diffusion model is more accepted among managers, mainly because it offers the illusion of control, while the translation model shows the uncertainty and ambiguity of the adoption process (Czarniawska, 2008). At the individual-level, this study shows the active role of individuals in change processes. It explains how the recursive relationship between the actions of translators intending to change institutionalized practices, and the resistance they encounter, feeds the translation process. Translators are embedded in the organization and are reproducing established activities. But they use their embeddedness to overcome resistance and change the taken-for-granted way of working. At the organizational-level, this empirical study shows how change is a way of achieving the substantive implementation of newly adopted initiatives, and how resistance promotes change. The study shows how institutional pressures are influential; they result in processual isomorphism. The four organizations, despite their different governance structures, are following the same translation process. However, this study links the macro-processes of isomorphism to the microprocesses explaining intra-organizational phenomena; it finds that homogeneous processes also result in heterogeneous actions. The specific activities implemented by each organization are idiosyncratic. These heterogeneous actions are the result of the interaction between the institutional environment and the resistance encountered by translators within the organization. In this way, this study shows how the UNGC is impacting organizational practices. How much organizations benefit from joining the UNGC depends on the level of development of their CSR programs and strategies at the time of the UNGC's adoption.

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Papadopoulos, A. K. "The drainage and exploitation of Lake Copais (1908-1938) : socio-economic implications of the exploitation of Lake Copais, Greece : a history of the Lake Copais question, 1908-1938, with special reference to the relations between State, Company and the peasant communities of the area." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.587515.

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The thesis investigates the long history of the drainage of the Lake Copais in Boeotia, Greece in the 19th and 20th century and examines the social, political and mainly the economic implications of the exploitation of the revealed lands in the wider area of Boeotia. The study begins with a geographical portrayal of the area concerned prior to the drainage which, together with its geological description and the climatic conditions in the past, provide the reader with vital introductory information. At the same time, the area's demographic structure after the drainage, presented in the second part, attempts to show not only the dynamics and capacities of the local population but also the possible effects of the drainage itself on the population changes. The survey is concentrated on the time period after 1900 and especially in the inter-war years. However, a historical account of the economic situation of the regions surrounding Lake Copais in the years before and immediately after the drainage is essential to comprehend the social and economic reasons that rendered the necessity of the project.After a brief reference to early unsuccessful efforts to drain Lake Copais, the thesis examines the nature of the foreign Company which finally undertook the operation, considering its investment strategies over the years. The frequent political and institutional obstacles raised by the Greek State, the long-standing conflicts between the Company and the Boeotian villagers and the difficult reclamation works are all important parameters of the Copais question which reveal the complex political, social and technical problems that were encountered. The attention is then focused on the exploitation of the Copais lands and its repercussions on the local economy. A comparative analysis, over a long period of time, of the organisation of the Copais estate, the characteristics of the land tenure system and the structure of land holdings reveal the main reasons for the relatively low productivity in the Copais lands and the belied expectations that had initially been entrusted both at local and national level. Research will also show the positive results obtained in the Copais estate in the later part of the inter-war period following radical changes in investment and land tenure policy.

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Nikolaou, Symeon. "Design and implementation of compact reconfigurable antennas for UWB and WLAN applications." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24802.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.
Committee Chair: Manos M. Tentzeris; Committee Co-Chair: John Papapolymerou; Committee Member: Andrew F. Peterson; Committee Member: Chang-Ho Lee; Committee Member: John D. Cressler; Committee Member: Joy Laskar.

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Becker, Anne Lynn. "The layout of the land : the Canadian Pacific Railway's photographic advertising and the travels of Frank Randall Clarke, 1920-1929." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83171.

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This thesis examines the role of photography in making the Canadian Pacific Railway company (CPR) an integral part of Canadian mythology. It focuses on the company's photographic advertising in the 1920s, and the ways in which its increasingly nationalistic transcontinental brochures framed the country, and equated the act of travelling with nation-building and national identity.
The CPR's tourist brochures established a visual vocabulary of the travelling experience, which was readily employed by individuals such as Montreal journalist Frank Randall Clarke. Clarke was sponsored by the CPR to travel across the country in the summer of 1929. His journalistic writing and personal photograph album allow for a rich analysis of the visual culture of the period, and they will be used to illustrate the ways in which the CPR represented Canadian progress, immigration, and tourism.

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Irwin, Cathryn E. "Suburbanization in Knoxville, Tennessee : the role of Edgewood Land and Improvement Company in the development of the Washington Avenue Addition and Lincoln Park, 1888-1910." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1041921.

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This study presents an overview of Edgewood Land and Improvement Company's early suburban development in Knoxville, Tennessee. It discusses the history of the Washington Avenue Addition and Lincoln Park, developed by Edgewood between 1888 and 1910. The evidence suggests that Edgewood evolved its marketing strategies for both suburbs: Washington Avenue Addition was first planned as an exclusive enclave for the upper-middle class, while Lincoln Park was initially designed for the middle class. Due to national and local economic problems, which caused poor land sales, Edgewood shifted strategies in both suburbs. Ultimately, the Washington Avenue Addition became a multi-class suburb. Lincoln Park was developed as a working-class suburb.
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Marshall, Daniel Patrick. "Claiming the land : Indians, goldseekers, and the rush to British Columbia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ48669.pdf.

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McKillip, James D. "Norway House: Economic Opportunity and the Rise of Community, 1825-1844." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20520.

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This dissertation argues that the Hudson’s Bay Company depot that was built at Norway House beginning in 1825 created economic opportunities that were sufficiently strong to draw Aboriginal people to the site in such numbers that, within a decade of its establishment, the post was the locus of a thriving community. This was in spite of the lack of any significant trade in furs, in spite of the absence of an existing Aboriginal community on which to expand and in spite of the very small number of Hudson’s Bay Company personnel assigned to the post on a permanent basis. Although economic factors were not the only reason for the development of Norway House as a community, these factors were almost certainly primus inter pares of the various influences in that development. This study also offers a new framework for the conception and construction of community based on documenting day-to-day activities that were themselves behavioural reflections of intentionality and choice. Interpretation of these behaviours is possible by combining a variety of approaches and methodologies, some qualitative and some quantitative. By closely counting and analyzing data in archival records that were collected by fur trade agents in the course of their normal duties, it is possible to measure the importance of various activities such as construction, fishing and hunting. With a clear understanding of what people were actually doing, it is possible to interpret their intentions in the absence of explicit documentary evidence.

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Freydier, Cédric. "L'accession à la propriété foncière pour les investisseurs étrangers à Madagascar." Thesis, Paris Est, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PEST0055.

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La perpétuelle recherche d'un gain ou d'un profit n'a pas épargné les rapports entre les Etats. En effet, les pays via les relations qu'ils entretiennent passent des accords dans le but d'assurer un essor et un développement économique et, Madagascar n'échappe pas à cette règle.Ainsi, force est de constater que depuis quelques années les investisseurs étrangers sont intéressés par les perspectives offertes par l'île rouge, cependant, la question de la sécurité de leurs investissements se pose, et en découle, de nombreuses interrogations sur l'accession à la propriété foncière pour les investisseurs étrangers à Madagascar. La propriété foncière sera entendue dans cette recherche comme la somme des terres acquises ou devant être acquises par les investisseurs étrangers pour établir leurs projets. En effet, les investisseurs, c'est-à-dire, les personnes morales (SA, SARL, EURL, Groupements…) souhaitant s'implanter à Madagascar veulent s'assurer des garanties quant à « la propriété de la chose (…) et de ce qu'elle produit1 » c'est-à-dire de leurs investissements. Ainsi, condition nécessaire du développement des affaires, les investissements étrangers représentent un potentiel important pouvant permettre de tirer l'économie du pays vers le haut. Toutefois, de nombreux chefs d'entreprises ou d'entrepreneurs individuels restent sur leur réserve en raison de leurs craintes quant à la fiabilité d'une implantation dans l'île de l'Océan Indien. C'est dans ce cadre que, le droit des affaires malgache avec l'appui du gouvernement actuellement en place et par le biais d'institutions internationales est en train de subir une profonde mutation. En effet, Monsieur RAVALOMANANA2 président de la République Démocratique de Madagascar a institué des processus nouveaux dans l'économie et la politique Malgache. Une profonde réforme du droit des affaires et du droit applicable aux investisseurs est en cours3, ceci dans le but de redonner confiance aux entreprises étrangères, de redynamiser l'économie et de permettre un « appel » à l'investissement international pour encourager les bailleurs de fons étrangers.L'approche, l'étude et l'approfondissement de ces nouvelles données permettent de dresser un bilan global de l'accession à la propriété foncière (qui est une condition pour favoriser, développer et encourager les investissements des entreprises étrangères).C'est dans le cadre de cette profonde mutation, et de ces réformes ayant des conséquences sur le droit des affaires qu'il est intéressant de s'interroger sur les nouvelles conditions d'accession à la propriété sur le sol malgache, d'étudier ainsi, les procédés mis en place pour encourager des créations d'entreprises, des délocalisations (Fiscalité encourageante…) et pour rassurer les investisseurs.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 Art.544 C.civ « La propriété est le droit de jouir et de disposer des choses (…) » et 546 C.civ « La propriété d'une chose soit mobilière, soit immobilière donne droit sur tout ce qu'elle produit (…) »2 Président depuis 2002, il succède à Monsieur Didier RATSIRAKA.3 Voir, la Cérémonie de lancement officiel de « l'Economic Developpement Board of Madagascar » ou Conseil Economique pour le développement Economique de Madagascar, en date du 05 Mars 2007, à Antananarivo
The perpetual search for gain or profit has not spared reportsbetween states. Indeed, the country through their relationshipssign agreements in order to ensure growth and developmenteconomic, Madagascar is no exception to this rule.Thus, it is clear that in recent years investorsforeigners are interested in the prospects offered by the"red island"however, the issue of security of their investments arises, andresult, many questions about the home landfor foreign investors in Madagascar.The land will be heard in this research as the sum ofland acquired or to be acquired by foreign investorsdevelop their projects. Indeed, investors, that is to say,Corporations (SA, SARL, EURL, group ...) wishing to relocate toMadagascar want to ensure guarantees of "property of the thing(...) And what it product1 "that is to say their investments.Thus, a necessary condition for business development, investmentForeigners represent a significant potential that can afford to takethe economy up. However, many business leaders orindividual entrepreneurs remain on their reserves because of theirconcerns about the reliability of a settlement on the island of the Indian Ocean.It is within this framework, business law with support from Madagascarcurrent government and through institutionsInternational is undergoing a profound change. Indeed,RAVALOMANANA2 Mr. President of the Democratic Republic of Madagascarintroduced new processes in the economy and politics of Madagascar. Amajor reform of business law and the law applicable toinvestors is Class3, this in order to restore confidenceforeign companies to revitalize the economy and allow a "call"investment to encourage international donors fonsforeigners.The approach, the study and deepening of these new data allowof a comprehensive review of home land (which is acondition to promote, develop and encourage investmentsforeign companies).As part of this profound change, and these reforms withimpact on business law it is interesting to speculatethe new conditions of home ownership on the ground in Madagascar,and to study the processes in place to encourage creativecompanies, relocation (Taxation encouraging ...) and to reassureinvestors.1 Art.544 C.civ "Property is the right to enjoy and dispose of things(...) "And 546 C.civ" The ownership of a thing is movable or real estateis entitled to everything it produces (...) "2 President since 2002, he succeeded Mr. Didier Ratsiraka.3 See, the official launch ceremony of "the Economic Development Boardof Madagascar "and the Economic Development EconomicMadagascar, dated March 5, 2007, in Antananarivo

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Eklöw, Maria. "Gynnas aktörer från ett land utanför EU på den inre marknaden? : Vid tillhandahållandet av elektroniska tjänster." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Commercial Law, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-664.

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Elektroniska tjänster utgör en stor del av marknadsekonomin i större delen av världen således även på den inre marknaden. Elektronisk handel, där elektroniska tjänster ingår, har under de senaste åren expanderat. U.S. Bureau of Census uppskattade att elektroniska tjänster genererat i drygt 600 miljarder kronor under år 2005. Det är en ökning med 24.6 % från föregående år. Statistiken visar endast handeln i USA, men ger ändå ett mått på den framfart som skett de senaste åren rörande elektronisk handel.

Inom gemenskapen har rådet fastställt en rad harmoniseringsregler, främst i det sjätte mervärdesskattedirektivet . I syfte att harmonisera de mervärdesskatterättsliga reglerna för att undvika en snedvridning av konkurrensen mellan aktörer etablerade i olika medlemsstater. Den inre marknaden är förvisso avsedd för aktörer etablerade inom EU, men man kan inte bortse från det faktum att även aktörer i tredjeland har tillträde till den inre marknaden.

För att utreda om aktörer från tredjeland gynnas framför aktörer etablerade i gemenskapen i tillhandahållande av elektroniska tjänster till icke skattskyldiga inom gemenskapen är bestämmandet av platsen av betydelse. Först fastställs om transaktionen faller inom ramen för artikel 2 i det sjätte mervärdesskattedirektivet. Där konstateras att mervärdesskatt skall betalas för tjänster som tillhandahålls inom landets territorium av en skattskyldig. För fastställande av ”landets territorium” hänvisas till artikel 3, se bilaga 4. Det andra steget är att konstatera om den som tillhandahåller tjänsten betraktas som skattskyldig enligt artikel 4.1, se bilaga 5 till uppsatsen. Är kriterierna i artikel 2 och 4 uppfyllda går man vidare till artikel 9 för bestämmandet av platsen.

Ursprungslandsprincipen och destinationslandsprincipen ligger till grund för bestämmandet av vilken stat som har beskattningsrätt, först fastställs omsättningslandet och därigenom platsen för tillhandahållandet. Destinationslandsprincipen och ursprungslandsprincipen kräver ett förtydligande. Från början tillämpades ursprungslandsprincipen för att nå den inre marknaden. Destinationslandsprincipen är den rådande men kommissionens långsiktiga mål är att gå över till ursprungslandsprincipen. Trots detta ändras i dagsläget regler för att passa destinationslandsprincipen.

Tillhandahållande av elektroniska tjänster existerade inte vid utformandet av det sjätte mervärdesskattedirektivet. Följaktligen saknades begreppet elektroniska tjänster i direktivet. Då rådet antog direktiv 2002/38/EG infördes begreppet elektroniska tjänster samt ett tydliggörande av vad som var att anse som platsen för tillhandahållande. Begreppsdefinitionen var dock inte uttömmande och rådet antog förordning 1777/2005 där elektroniska tjänster definieras både i förordningen samt tillhörande bilaga. Klassificeringen av elektroniska tjänster sker på samma vis oberoende av platsen för tillhandahållandet. Däremot skiljer sig bestämmandet av omsättningsland och platsen beroende på om en aktör är etablerad i en medlemsstat eller ej.

Innan direktiv 2002/38/EG antogs kunde aktörer från tredjeland undgå mervärdesbeskattning då de tillhandahöll elektroniska tjänster till icke skattskyldiga i gemenskapen. Rådets intention vid antagande av direktivet var att undanröja snedvridning av konkurrensen samt att tydliggöra reglerna om platsen för tillhandahållande i de fall då aktörer var etablerade i tredjeland.

Med direktiv 2002/38/EG antogs den regel som bestämmer platsen för tillhandahållande till den där aktören är registrerad. I samband med detta infördes den ordning vilken innebär att aktörer från tredjeland skall registrera sig för mervärdesskatt i en medlemsstat.

Även det fasta driftstället har betydelse för bestämmande av platsen. I vissa fall är det fasta driftstället att anse som platsen och i andra fall är huvudkontoret platsen för tillhandahållande. Begreppet fast driftställe nämns i artikel 9 i det sjätte mervärdesskattedirektivet, men ingen definition ges av vad som omfattas eller vilka kriterierna är. För att fastställa detta är man hänvisad till EG-domstolens praxis då inget uttömmande svar ges i direktiven. Gällande elektroniska tjänster och inkomstskatterätt kan i vissa fall en server utgöra ett fast driftställe, det är inte möjligt inom mervärdesskatterätten.

Electronic commerce constitutes a big market economy in the world, therefore also in the internal market. Electronic commerce, which includes electronic services, has expanded in the past years. In the end of year 2005, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the total U.S. electronic commerce sales at $ 86.3 billion. This featured a 24.6 percent increase from the previous year 2004. Even though this is U.S. statistics, it gives a view of how electronic commerce has expanded the last years.

Within the internal market, the Council of the European Union constituted a number of regulations on harmonisation, mainly in the Sixth VAT Directive . The purpose of harmonising the VAT regulations is to prevent distortion of the competition between suppliers established in the European Union. The internal market is intended for the suppliers established in the European Union, nevertheless suppliers from the countries outside the European Union have access to the internal market. The place of supply is of importance to investigate if a supplier from a country outside the European Union is in favour before a supplier established within the European Union in supply of electronic services to persons non-liable to tax.

To investigate whether or not a supplier from a country outside the European Union benefit before suppliers established within the internal market the place of supply is of significance. The first question that arises is whether the transaction falls within the scope of article 2. Article 2 establishes that the subject to value added tax is the supply of services affected for consideration within the territory of the country by a taxable person. Article 3 es-tablishes the territory of the country, see attachment 4. The second step to clarify is if the person supplying the services is liable for tax according to article 4, see attachment 5. If the criteria for article 2 and 4 are satisfied the next step is article 9 and to establish the place of supply.

To define the country with the right to tax, the establishment of the place of supply leads to the place of transaction. The principle of destination and principle of origin need to be explained. From the beginning, the Commission applied the principle of origin to reach the single market. In spite of the fact that the Commission’s long-term goal is to apply the principle of origin, rules are constantly changed to be applicable on the principle of destination.

The supplying of electronic services did not exist when the Sixth VAT Directive was proposed. Therefore the concept of electronic services is not defined in the directive. When the Council of the European Union approved Directive 2002/38/EC , the concept of electronic services was classified and it was also made clear what is established as the place of supply. Notwithstanding the concept was not exhaustive and the Council of the European Union approved the regulation 1777/2005 in which electronic services are defined further, both in the regulation and in the attachment belonging to the regulation. The classifications of electronic services are independent of whether the supplier is established in a Member States or country outside the European Union. The place of supply depends on if the supplier is established in a Member State or outside the European Union.

Before directive 2002/38/EC, a supplier from a country outside the European Union could escape value added tax when supplying services to non-liable tax persons. The Council of the European Parliaments intention to lay down the directive was to set aside dis-torted competition and to clarify the rules of the place of supply in situations when a sup-plier is established in a country outside the European Union.

With directive 2002/38/EC the rule that decides the place of supply to the one where the supplier are registered were taken into force. In relation to that, a regulation was introduced where suppliers from a country outside the European Union shall register for value added tax in a Member State.

The permanent establishment is of certain significance to establish the place. In some situations, a permanent establishment is considered as the place of supply and in others it is the head office. The classification of a permanent establishment is mentioned in article 9 in the Sixth VAT Directive but there is no definition of what it comprises or the criteria. To in-vestigate what a permanent establishment is one is referred to go through the European Court of Justices case-law. In income tax, there are situations when a server can constitute a permanent establishment, which is not possible in value added tax.

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Lang, Robin [Verfasser], and Timo [Akademischer Betreuer] Weidl. "On the eigenvalues of the non-self-adjoint Robin Laplacian on bounded domains and compact quantum graphs / Robin Lang ; Betreuer: Timo Weidl." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2021. http://d-nb.info/123224189X/34.

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Iwasaki, Yohei, Nobuo Kawaguchi, and Yasuyoshi Inagaki. "Azim : Direction-Based Service System for Both Indoors and Outdoors." IEICE, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/7820.

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Díaz, Solano Leila Jocelyn, and Rivera Carlos Joel Segovia. "Sistema de Costeo ABC y su influencia en la toma de decisiones gerenciales en el Sector Transporte Terrestre de Carga en Lima, Año 2017." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/654661.

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La presente tesis de investigación tiene como finalidad que la empresa analizada logre conocer sus costos detalladamente, tener una adecuada estructura de costos, acercándose más al costo real de los servicios que brindan, identificando las actividades necesarias para brindar un servicio, asignar correctamente los recursos a las actividades mediante inductores que ayudarán a obtener el objeto de costo, con el fin de tomar las mejores decisiones gerenciales para mejorar la rentabilidad de la empresa, crear valor agregado sobre el servicio que se brinda y cumplir todos los objetivos planeados. Se aplicó el sistema de costeo ABC basándose en la metodología de aplicación y conceptos recabados de diferentes fuentes sobre el tema investigado, los que se detallan en el primer capítulo mencionando a diferentes autores que han realizado estudios sobre el sistema de costeo ABC, en el segundo capítulo se realiza la descripción del plan de investigación donde se menciona y analiza el problema, y se validan las hipótesis. En el tercer capítulo se presenta la metodología elegida, donde se detalla la investigación cuantitativa y cualitativa, además se define la muestra de la población. El capítulo cuatro explica cómo se ha desarrollado la investigación, las entrevistas a profundidad realizadas a los especialistas, los resultados de las encuestas y el caso práctico aplicando el sistema de costeo ABC. En el quinto capítulo se desarrolla el análisis de los resultados obtenidos por las herramientas usadas, el caso práctico y la validación de las hipótesis. Para finalizar se realizan las conclusiones y las recomendaciones basándose en las hipótesis planteadas.
This research thesis is intended for the analyzed company to achieve their costs in detail, have an adequate cost structure, approaching the real cost of the services that it provides, identifying the activities necessary to provide a service, correctly assign of the resources to activities through inducers that will help obtain the cost object, in order to make the best management decisions to improve the profitability of the company, create added value about the service that provides and fulfill all the planned objectives. The ABC costing system was applied based on the application methodology and concepts collected from different sources on the subject investigated, those detailed in the first chapter mentioning different alters that have carried out studies on the ACC cost place system, in the second chapter the description of the research plan is made in which the problem is mentioned and analyzed, and the hypothesis are validated. In the third chapter, the chosen methodology is presented, where quantitative and qualitative research is detailed, the sample of the population is defined. Chapter four explains how research has developed, in-depth interviews made to specialists, the results of the surveys and the practical case by applying the ABC cost place system. In the fifth chapter the analysis of the results obtained by the used tools, the practical case and the validation of the hypothesis is developed. To finalize conclusions and recommendations are made based on the hypothesis raised.
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Fridqvist, Nimvik Kajsa, and Wendela Svanberg. "Är tätt rätt angreppssätt? : En studie om utmaningar och möjligheter med förtätning i Nordvästra Kungsholmen." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för tema, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-176288.

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Urbaniseringen medför att allt fler människor flyttar in i städerna. Stockholm har under de senaste åren beskrivits som en av de snabbast växande storstadsregionerna i Europa och på grund av det ställs det större krav på bostäder och annan utveckling vilket leder till planer på förtätning. Nordvästra Kungsholmen som är beläget i ytterkanten av Stockholms innerstad pekades ut som ett utvecklingsområde i Stockholms översiktsplan från år 1999. Sedan dess har området planerats i avsikt att förtäta och binda samman bebyggelsen på västra Kungsholmen. Syftet är att förstå och analysera vilka utmaningar och möjligheter som Stockholms stad identifierat i samband med förtätningsprojekt i Nordvästra Kungsholmen. I studien har fyra tjänstepersoner från kommunen intervjuats samt har en kompletterande dokumentanalys genomförts. Resultaten visar att med funktionsblandning skapas närhet mellan bostäder, arbete, affärer och aktiviteter samtidigt som hållbara transporter främjas. Kvaliteten av grönytor i området prioriteras framför kvantiteten och olika intressen styr graden exploatering. Det råder inget större fokus på hållbarhet för utvecklingen av Nordvästra Kungsholmen, men i samband med förtätning genomsyras projektet av möjligheter för en hållbar stadsutveckling.
Due to urbanization, more people are moving into the cities. In recent years, Stockholm has been described as one of the fastest growing metropolitan regions in Europe. Because of this, there is a larger demand for housing and urban development, which leads to densification in cities. The northwestern part of Kungsholmen is located in the outskirts of Stockholm city and was designated as a development area in Stockholm’s general plan from 1999. Since then, the area has been planned with the intention of densifying and tie together the buildings on the western side of Kungsholmen. This study aims to understand and analyze the challenges and opportunities that Stockholm city have identified with densification projects in the northwestern part of Kungsholmen. In the study, four officials from the municipality were interviewed and a documental analysis was conducted as a complementary method. The results shows that a mixed land use creates proximity between homes, work, stores, and activities while promoting sustainable transport. The quality of green space is prioritized over quantity, and different conflicts of interests regulate the extent of exploitation. There is no major focus on sustainability for the development of the northwestern part of Kungsholmen, however, densifying projects are permeated by opportunities for sustainable urban development.

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Song, Chang-Shik. "Effects of Spatial Structure on Air Quality Level in U.S. Metropolitan Areas." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1370284273.

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Angel, Julie R. "Location, Location, Location: A Probabilistic Model of Banked Earthwork Placement Within the Central Ohio Landscape During the Early and Middle Woodland Periods." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274205403.

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Šliauterytė, Monika. "Darnios plėtros principų įgyvendinimo indikatoriai miestų planavime." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110620_114409-28853.

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Didėjant urbanizacijos mastams, būtina akcentuoti darnų miestų vystymąsi. Dažniausiai literatūroje nagrinėjami ekologiško ir kompaktiško miestų modeliai. Analizė atskleidžia, jog pagrindiniai jų principai yra mišrios paskirties žemės naudojimas, išvystytas visuomeninis transportas bei dviračių takai, didelis tankumas, viešųjų erdvių prieinamumas, gamtos resursų išsaugojimas, ekonominis, socialinis ir ekologinis stabilumas. Baigiamajame darbe nagrinėjami šie du miestų modeliai, socialiniai veiksniai bei nurodoma monitoringo svarba planuojant miesto plėtros tendencijas. Elektrėnų savivaldybės pavyzdžiu išskiriami situacijos vertinimo indikatoriai, naudojami bendrajame savivaldybės plane. Baigiamajame darbe išanalizuoti pagrindiniai principai ir išskirti pagrindiniai subalansuotos plėtros įvertinimo kriterijai, bei nustatyta, kad galima išsami miesto subalansuotumo analizė kombinuojant išskirtus kriterijus.
With increasing the scale of urbanization, it is necessary to focus on sustainable development of the city. The ecological and compact models of the city are common issue in the literature. Main principles of these models are mixed land use, good quality of public transport and opportunity for bicycling, high density, access of public spaces, and conservation of natural resources, economical, ecological and social stability. There are distinguished indicators of state evaluation of Elektrenai municipality as an example. The article examines two urban models, social factors and the importance of monitoring in the urban planning process. In the article, basic principles are analyzed and main sustainable development evaluation criteria are emphasized.

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Prytz, Cristina. "Familjen i kronans tjänst : Donationspraxis, förhandling och statsformering under svenskt 1600-tal." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-197362.

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This dissertation investigates what the early modern donation system in Sweden reveals about the Crown’s expectations of the social group that served the state, and what these individuals expected from the Crown. The author shows how the Crown used donations of land rents to remunerate and reward individuals in its service. In 1680 the donation system was abolished and the Crown reclaimed everything that had been alienated. It was not until 1723 that the proprietors could address a specially appointed parliamentary commission (which ended in 1748) and challenge the Crown’s repossession. The deeds of donation and ratification, most issued during the period 1604 to 1680, as well as petitions submitted to the commission constitute the sources used in the investigation. A petition from the recipient usually preceded remunerations and the deeds drawn up by the Crown often refer to these letters. Petitioners accordingly referred to arguments used by the administration in Stockholm. This makes it possible, by direct and indirect methods, to study how both parties sought to change and influence the imagined compact between Crown and families in its service. The negotiation between the parties, studied over such a lengthy period, helps identify tendencies in the way the relation between state and its servants was changing. The thesis shows that there was a clear gender aspect to the process through which state formation happened. Even though most recipients were male, the deeds included his wife and children. Service and fidelity to the Crown was expected also from the descendants of the recipient. Accordingly, the Crown had both liabilities and duties to fulfil to the recipients family. We could say that in the eye of the Crown its servants were a family. The author also argues that the Crown used the donations to create and favour an informal fifth estate and how this policy influenced the shared ideas in society on merits versus ancestry. In the end of the period, however, the imagined compact was changing. The emerging state came with new claims to authority and the need to separate the Crown from its subjects at various levels (legal, political). As the compact became less personal family members were no longer included and women could no longer negotiate from their position within the family.

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Langnerová, Karolina. "Stavba-Prostor-Město "Dostavba městského bloku"." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-400662.

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This work seeks to verify the possible construction of a kindergarten in very confined conditions in the courtyard so that children can take dignified first steps in educational facilities and at the same time to economically use the land in the city center.

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Tomeš, Jakub. "Mobilní stavební jeřáb nosnosti 200 kg." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-417078.

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This diploma thesis describes mechanical design of mobile construction crane, specified for moving Silka bricks of weight 200 kg. Thesis contains constructing solution of steel frame - boom, column and chassis. Standard purchased components are also defined in this thesis - hydraulic circuits, el. pulley assembly and wheels. Last part of thesis verifies sufficient safety of designed frame using Finite element method. Output of this thesis are mechanical drawings of welded parts of steel frame and assembly drawing of entire crane.

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Guérois, Marianne. "Les formes des villes européennes vues du ciel : une contribution de l'image CORINE à la comparaison morphologique des grandes villes d'Europe occidentale." Phd thesis, Paris 1, 2003. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00004303.

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La question de la forme urbaine se trouve depuis une dizaine d'années au premier plan des réflexions sur le devenir des villes européennes et anime de nombreux débats sur les bien- fondés d'un modèle de ville compacte. Ces discussions sont rarement étayées par des mesures comparables car les bases de données harmonisées sur les villes européennes sont encore en cours de constitution. L'image des espaces bâtis extraite de CORINE Land cover est une source inédite qui permet de confronter la compacité des agglomérations, en mesurant leur emprise spatiale (étendue et densité) et en qualifiant les formes des taches urbaines. A l'échelle plus large des aires urbanisées, le modèle du champ urbain est encore un principe fort d'organisation des espaces bâtis, selon un double gradient linéaire de décroissance de l'emprise du bâti. Des méthodes de lissage ont de plus permis de généraliser les images des surfaces bâties et de restituer la structure hiérarchique du peuplement à différentes échelles.

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Chabot, Cecil. "Cannibal Wihtiko: Finding Native-Newcomer Common Ground." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/33452.

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Two prominent historians, David Cannadine and Brad Gregory, have recently contended that history is distorted by overemphasis on human difference and division across time and space. This problem has been acute in studies of Native-Newcomer relations, where exaggeration of Native pre-contact stability and post-contact change further emphasized Native-Newcomer difference. Although questioned in economic, social and political spheres, emphasis on cultural difference persists. To investigate the problem, this study examined the Algonquian wihtiko (windigo), an apparent exemplar of Native-Newcomer difference and division. With a focus on the James Bay Cree, this study first probed the wihtiko phenomenon’s Native origins and meanings. It then examined post-1635 Newcomer encounters with this phenomenon: from the bush to public opinion and law, especially between 1815 and 1914, and in post-1820 academia. Diverse archives, ethnographies, oral traditions, and academic texts were consulted. The cannibal wihtiko evolved from Algonquian attempts to understand and control rare but extreme mental and moral failures in famine contexts. It attained mythical proportions, but fears of wihtiko possession, transformation and violence remained real enough to provoke pre-emptive killings even of family members. Wihtiko beliefs also influenced Algonquian manifestations and interpretations of generic mental and moral failures. Consciously or not, others used it to scapegoat, manipulate, or kill. Newcomers threatened by moral and mental failures attributed to the wihtiko often took Algonquian beliefs and practices seriously, even espousing them. Yet Algonquian wihtiko behaviours, beliefs and practices sometimes presented Newcomers with another layer of questions about mental and moral incompetence. Collisions arose when they discounted, misconstrued or asserted control over Algonquian beliefs and practices. For post-colonial critics, this has raised a third layer of questions about intellectual and moral incompetence. Yet some critics have also misconstrued earlier attempts to understand and control the wihtiko, or attributed an apparent lack of scholarly consensus to Western cultural incompetence or inability to grasp the wihtiko. In contrast, this study of wihtiko phenomena reveals deeper commonalities and continuities. They are obscured by the complex evolution of Natives’ and Newcomers’ struggles to understand and control the wihtiko. Yet hidden in these very struggles and the wihtiko itself is a persistent shared conviction that reducing others to objects of power signals mental and moral failure. The wihtiko reveals cultural differences, changes and divisions, but exemplifies more fundamental commonalities and continuities.

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Van, den Haute Erik. "Harmonisation européenne du crédit hypothécaire: perspectives de droit comparé, de droit international privé et de droit européen." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210458.

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La réalisation du marché intérieur européen par une meilleure intégration des marchés financiers est aujourd’hui devenue une réalité. L'objectif est toutefois loin d'être atteint en matière de crédit hypothécaire, nonobstant de nombreuses initiatives européennes. Compte tenu de ces difficultés et du postulat selon lequel il serait impossible d'harmoniser le droit des suretés immobilières en raison de leur ancrage culturel et national, une proposition alternative consistant dans la création d'une sûreté immobilière commune (euro-hypothèque), venant se superposer aux systèmes nationaux, a été formulée depuis un certain nombre d'années. La recherche analyse dans un premier temps la réalité du postulat précité à la lumière du droit comparé et conclut qu'en réalité, les différents systèmes trouvent non seulement leur origine dans un modèle identique, fondé sur le caractère accessoire de la sûreté, mais ont en outre connu une évolution similaire au cours de ces dernières années. Il apparaît que ce modèle constitue la meilleure base pour toute harmonisation européenne. Après avoir examiné l'interaction avec le droit international privé, sous l'angle de la protection du consommateur, et le droit européen, sous l'angle de la question de la compétence communautaire et du principe de subsidiarité, des pistes sont proposés pour opérer un rapprochement des législations nationales relatives au crédit hypothécaire. La proposition consiste à intégrer dans un seul instrument juridique contraignant (une directive européenne) les différentes propositions permettant d'opérer un rapprochement des législations nationales à trois niveaux :celui de la sûreté immobilière et de la publicité foncier, celui du contrat de prêt et enfin, celui relatif à la procédure de réalisation de l'immeuble.
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Lin, JEN shou, and 林仁壽. "Biding Strategy for Land Development Company Using RDEU." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b65cp8.

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碩士
國立臺灣科技大學
營建工程系
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This research was focus on the land bidding decision of architecture industries investment. The accuracy of critical factors on land bidding decision affects the operating efficiency on the architecture industries. The investor of architecture industries can not make the land bidding decision by directly using feeling and experience. However, it must have the complete evaluation and analysis to make the investment reasonable, reduce the investment risk and increase the company’s competition. This research applies the Rank-Dependent Expected Utility theory (RDEU) to establish the land development decision module according to land development and architecture investment experiences. The RDEU can help investors of architecture industries focus on the land bidding case to forecasting the land bidding price. By using the land bidding price decision module, the investors of architecture industries can integrate the internal information and have ideas to make the optimal judgment on the profit forecasting and to obtain the bidding probability.

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Purdey, Cheryl Ann. "Orkneymen to Rupert's Landers Orkney workers in the Saskatchewan District, 1795-1830 /." Master's thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/1030.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2010.
Title from pdf file main screen (viewed March 26, 2010). "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Dept. of History". Includes bibliographical references.

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Edley, Jennifer Joyce Anderson. "The Natal Land and Colonisation Company in colonial Natal, 1860 - 1890." Thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/6315.

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The Natal Land and Colonisation Company was incorporated in 1860 in London. Its capital was partly subscribed by City financiers, the rest being made up of land obtained from Natal land speculators in exchange for fully-paid-up shares. On the basis of very little research, it has been assumed that it was a land-speculation company which held its land against an expected rise in value and rack-rented to black squatters. The deduction has been that this kept land out of the reach of white settlers and thus retarded the development of the white economy. Study of the Company records has shown this view to be entirely erroneous. The primary objective of the Company was to borrow surplus capital in Britain at a low interest rate and invest it in Natal at a higher rate. The landholdings of the Company were used as collateral for raising funds on the London market or sold, when the market permitted to release capital for reinvestment. Only the profit on land sales was distributed to shareholders. This relatively straightforward plan of operation was modified between 1860 and 1890 in reaction to changing economic circumstances in Natal. The Company initially lent large sums on mortgage, but a severe depression between 1865 and 1869 led to large-scale defaulting on repayments and the Company was forced to foreclose. This vastly increased the Company's rural landholdings, and brought in several established plantations and a large number of urban properties. The Company invested unsuccessfully, in the plantation economy, was prevented by the colonial and imperial governments from investing in railway and coal-mining development and, owing to a poor land market, sold only a small proportion of its land. For income, it relied on leasing land to white settlers, renting urban properties and collecting hut-rents from black squatters. This last practice brought it into conflict with white settler interests as it gave blacks an alternative to wage-labour. The Witwatersrand gold discoveries stimulated economic development in Natal, particularly urban development, and the Company finally found a profitable and stable investment area in urban property.
Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1991.

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LIN, CHANG CHIA, and 林佳璋. "The Study on Land Expropriation Compensationfor Lands Owned by State-Owned Company." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55a2ha.

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義守大學
管理碩博士班
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Land expropriation, for the purpose of setting up a public infrastructure or the public purposes of the government, to execute the public authority to obtain private lands, and pay compensation after taking people''s ownership. Land expropriation means the government dominate and influence private property rights. Article 15 of the Constitution clearly state that the people''s rights to exist, the people''s rights to work and the property shall be guaranteed. The process of land expropriation must follow the strict conditions, and should give reasonable compensation after the particular damage of private property rights. This is the necessary conditions of land expropriation when being executed by the government departments. The government compensation attitude for land expropriation at the time is considered that is below the normal transaction price, even if the present value of the land has already plus compensation from the original announcement to the market price. But What''s the difference between the expropriation compensation standards of its evaluation methods and the present value of the land? It seems unable to completely make the proper compensation of land expropriation and caused many litigations. The cost of land Expropriation is still generally considered to be lower than the market price, many people has immediate caused the loss of stereotyped impression on land expropriation of the government. According to the perspective of our Constitution, the government should protect people''s private property rights for land expropriation and need to establish reasonable compensation framework. After the law of land expropriation to be amended to promote by the administrative authorities, and adjust the compensation for land expropriation compensation basis. If it is still considered a new name but for the original practice? If it can make people believe that the assessed compensation is fair market price? Taiwan Sugar Corporation has to handle the public infrastructure of the government or the economy development to execute land expropriation. How to make a balance when the property rights have been infringed and the compensation of the lands will comply with the government economic policy and land expropriation of the public infrastructure.

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