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Spyridopoulos, Ioannis. "Tough Love: The Effects of Debt Contract Design on Firms’ Performance." Review of Corporate Finance Studies 9, no. 1 (2019): 44–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rcfs/cfz006.
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Abstract I investigate whether restrictive loan covenants disrupt or improve firms’ operating performance. Using an instrumental variables approach to address the endogenous relationship between covenant strictness and firms’ efficiency, I find that stricter loan covenants lead to an increase in profitability and firm value even when firms do not violate a covenant. Stricter covenants improve performance only in firms with managerial agency conflicts: those without large shareholder ownership, facing softer competition in their product market, or with weaker shareholder rights. The evidence suggests that by designing stringent contracts ex ante, creditors create positive externalities in poorly governed firms through managerial incentives. Received December 7, 2018; editorial decision May 31, 2019 by Editor Uday Rajan. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.
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Moilanen, Sinikka. "Sensemaking of post-acquisition changes in accounting and control." Journal of Applied Accounting Research 17, no. 1 (2016): 24–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jaar-01-2014-0013.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how softer issues such as emotions function in the alignment of a management accounting and control system (MCS) following an international acquisition. Design/methodology/approach – To tap into the interplay of softer issues and formal structures, the paper compares the sensemaking of the changes in the structures related to and following an acquisition in the acquiring firm and the acquired firm. Findings – The results show that the people in the acquiring firm take the company perspective and identify the processes of change and technical matters affecting consolidation. Their interpretative frames are thus more rational than the emotional frames of the people in the acquired firm, who explain the changes in terms of their personal experiences. Accordingly, softer issues, such as emotions, affect how structural changes are interpreted. Originality/value – The paper contributes to the existing research on the post-acquisition integration of MCSs by showing that not only do the basic assumptions of MCSs challenge the alignment, but the positions of individuals also create certain perspectives that may evoke emotions and affect sensemaking. In this specific situation emotions may already be evoked by the changes in work, not only by accounting figures and technologies. The contradiction between rational and emotional frames may cause difficulties in alignment, since introducing new formal accounting structures does not provide any unambiguous frame for sensemaking. These structures may be interpreted through their content or through the effects on daily work.
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Perkins-Veazie, P. M., J. K. Collins, and J. R. Clark. "CHANGES IN BLACKBERRY FRUIT QUALITY DURING STORAGE." HortScience 28, no. 4 (1993): 277A—277. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.28.4.277a.
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Blackberry fruit are considered highly perishable, having an average shelflife of 2 to 3 days. Fruit of erect blackberry cultivars were stored at 2C for 7 days to determine shelflife and quality changes. Weight loss was 1.8 and 3.4% after 3 and 7 days storage, regardless of cultivar or color stage. Soluble solids concentration (SSC), titratable acidity (TA), anthocyanin content, and skin firmness did not change during storage, but differed between ripeness stages and cultivars. Mottled (50% black) fruit were low in SSC and high in TA compared to shiny or dull black fruit. All dull black fruit were rated softer and lower in overall appearance after storage compared to shiny black fruit. `Choctaw' fruit were less firm and rated softer and of marginal appearance after 7 days storage while `Navaho' fruit remained firm and highly acceptable. Ethylene production ranged from 0.4 (`Navaho') to 2.8 nl/g-h (`Choctaw'). Results indicate that erect blackberry fruit harvested at the shiny black stage are of acceptable quality and have excellent shelflife potential.
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Pugsley, W. H. "A Sober Look at French-English Relations in Quebec." Relations industrielles 23, no. 3 (2005): 415–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/027921ar.
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The Author briefly reviews the historical developments that have led to the present cultural-linguistic situation in Québec business. He then proceeds to a realistic description of Canadian and even international markets for more and more Quebec-based secondary-manufacturing firms, stressing the need for working bilingualism and greater mobility of French-Canadian employees. In such a context, French-Canadians would get greater opportunities, and both sides would gradually abandon prejudice in favour of equity and efficiency.
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Kozuka, Yuta, Zhou Lu, Tsukuru Masuda, et al. "Evaluation of bacterial adhesion strength on phospholipid copolymer films with antibacterial ability using microfluidic shear devices." Journal of Materials Chemistry B 9, no. 22 (2021): 4480–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1tb00657f.
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This work investigated the bacterial adhesion strength of cross-linked zwitterionic copolymer films using a shear stress-tunable microfluidic device. We found that the adhesion of S. aureus on the thicker and softer copolymer film was weaker.
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Jossa, Bruno. "A Few Advantages of Economic Democracy." STUDI ECONOMICI, no. 101 (March 2011): 5–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ste2010-101001.
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The aim of this article is to discuss some of the main advantages of an employeemanaged system: a labour productivity edge on capitalistic businesses, the suppression of external firm control, slower monopoly-building and softer competition, the eclipse of the paramount role of economics in social evolution and a reduced need for state intervention into the economy. The author's analysis sheds light on whether, and in what sense, economic democracy is a public good proper or just a "merit good". From the classification of cooperative as merit goods it follows that any government, regardless of political-economic orientation, should make it its task to support the growth of the democratic firm system by enforcing tax or credit benefits in its favour.
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Wilkinson, Margaret Ann, Christa Walker, and Peter Mercer. "Testing Theory and Debunking Stereotypes: Lawyers’ Views on the Practice of Law." Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 18, no. 1 (2005): 165–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0841820900005555.
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This article is the final report of a study of legal ethics and professionalism involving in depth interviews about problem solving conducted with nearly two hundred lawyers practicing in various settings: in different sizes of firms, in different sizes of communities, in private practice and in in-house or corporate counsel positions. Previously published findings of this research project having established that lawyers rarely turn to their ethical codes to solve problems, preferring instead to rely upon informal information gleaned from within their own offices (although lawyers from smaller firms remain more often comfortable with information drawn from beyond the firm than those from larger firms), this article focuses on analysis of the interviews of those lawyers who identified themselves as concerned with issues involving their roles as lawyers. The analysis maps the lawyers' own descriptions of their situations onto the “hired gun” and “counselor” models of lawyer-client interaction taken from the literature. The findings confirm our preliminary findings that these two roles are not mutually exclusive. Although all the lawyers concerned with their roles began in a mentoring mode, most lawyers eventually relinquished their decision-making to their clients, a transition fraught with challenges for many of them. A minority, however, despite the dictates of their code of ethics, withdrew from cases or even, exceptionally, substituted their own decision-making for that of their clients. The article links the mentoring model to the care perspective in the literature of moral development and the hired gun model to the rights perspective. The findings did not establish any support for the claim that the presence of women is creating a "softer" voice in the legal profession. However, two aspects of the structure of the profession, private practice versus in-house practice and the size of the centre in which the practice is located, engendered variations in professional attitudes.
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Wang, Lugen, M. Ganor, S. I. Rokhlin, and Alfred Grill. "Nanoindentation Analysis of Mechanical Properties of Low to Ultralow Dielectric Constant SiCOH Films." Journal of Materials Research 20, no. 8 (2005): 2080–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2005.0258.
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Carbon-doped oxide SiCOH films with low to ultralow dielectric constants were prepared on a Si substrate by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) from mixtures of SiCOH precursors with organic materials. The films have different levels of nanoscale porosity resulting in different dielectric constants and mechanical properties. The mechanical properties of the films have been characterized by continuous-stiffness nanoindentation measurements. To study the effect of film thickness, each group of samples with the same dielectric constant was composed of samples prepared with different film thicknesses. It is shown that the effective hardness and modulus of the SiCOH/Si substrate system depends significantly on indentation depth due to substrate constraint effects. The “true” film properties were determined using both an empirical formulation of the effective modulus and direct inversion based on a finite element model. The hardness and modulus of three groups of samples with different degrees of dielectric constants have been measured. The hardness increases from 0.7 to 2.7 GPa and modulus from 3.6 to 17.0 GPa as the dielectric constants change from 2.4 to 3.0. While for stiffer films the modulus measured at an indentation depth 10% of the film thickness is close to the “true” value for films thicker than 0.5 μm, the measured value can give an overestimate of up to 35% for softer films. Thin film cracking and film–substrate debonding have been observed with scanning electron and atomic force microscopy at the indentation sites in softer films. The damage initiation is indicated by pop-in events in the loading curve and sharp peaks in the normalized contact stiffness curves versus indentation depth.
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Mullinix, Benjamin, Gerard Krewer, and Paul Sumner. "Effect on Blueberry Quality as Affected by Various Types of Padded Surfaces." HortScience 32, no. 4 (1997): 595B—595. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.32.4.595b.
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'Climax' and 'Tifblue' blueberry cultivars were harvested, cooled, and later warmed to room temperature for use in individual berry dropping experiments. Surfaces used were concrete, “Softer NoBruze” and “Poron #7R70-Grey.” Berries in the check were not dropped. Three groups of 25 berries were dropped individually from various heights ranging from .5 ft to 7 ft. Initially, berries were cut to determine percent flesh showing bruising. Later, berries were rolled between fingers and assigned a firmness: firm, medium firm, or soft. The first two firmnesses are considered marketable. Fruit tended to bruise more when harvested later in season. More bruising occurred with higher drop heights. More marketable fruit resulted from thicker padding. Repeated dropping increased bruising. “NoBruze” was superior to “Poron” at any thickness. Many berries in the mechanical harvester have to drop over a foot onto a metal surface; padding these surfaces should increase percent of marketable (undamaged) berry yield.
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Potejanasak, Potejana, Masahiko Yoshino, Motoki Terano, and Masahiro Mita. "Efficient Fabrication Process of Metal Nanodot Arrays Using Direct Nanoimprinting Method with a Polymer Mold." International Journal of Automation Technology 9, no. 6 (2015): 629–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/ijat.2015.p0629.
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A new fabrication process of metal nanodot arrays using the thermal dewetting method was developed in this study. This process was comprised of three steps: thin Au film deposition on a quartz glass substrate, groove patterning by direct nanoimprinting, and self-organization of metal nanodot arrays by thermal dewetting. A new idea to utilize a polymer film mold for groove patterning by direct nanoimprinting was examined. The polymer film mold was prepared by hot-embossing groove patterns of a mother mold on a cyclo olefin polymer (COP) film. The mother mold was prepared from a silicon wafer. The polymer film mold was used for direct nanoimprinting on a metal film deposited on a quartz substrate. The experimental results revealed that the COP film mold can effectively form a micro groove pattern on the Au film despite the COP film mold being softer than the Au film. The micro groove on the Au film was also found to be effective in aligning the nanodots in lines. The micro groove patterning using the COP film mold was also confirmed to be useful in controlling the dot size and alignment during the thermal dewetting process.