Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal Emerald Article: Sustainability accounting and reporting: fad or trend? Roger L. Burritt, Stefan Schaltegger Article information: To cite this document: Roger L. Burritt, Stefan Schaltegger, (2010),"Sustainability accounting and reporting: fad or trend?", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 23 Iss: 7 pp. 829 - 846 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09513571011080144 Downloaded on: 04-11-2012 References: This
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MP A R Munich Personal RePEc Archive The Pecking Order, Trade-off, Signaling, and Market-Timing Theories of Capital Structure: a Review Anton Miglo University of Bridgeport 2010 Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46691/ MPRA Paper No. 46691, posted 6. May 2013 19:07 UTC The Pecking Order, Trade-off, Signaling, and Market-Timing Theories of Capital Structure: a Review Anton Miglo Associate professor, University of Bridgeport, School of Business, Bridgeport, CT 06604, phone
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Journal of American Studies, 45 (2011), 1, 113–129 f Cambridge University Press 2010 doi:10.1017/S0021875810001271 First published online 19 July 2010 Jazz as a Black American Art Form : Definitions of the Jazz Preservation Act JEFF FARLEY Jazz music and culture have experienced a surge in popularity after the passage of the Jazz Preservation Act (JPA) in 1987. This resolution defined jazz as a black American art form, thus using race, national identity, and cultural value as key aspects in making
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Asian Criminology (2008) 3:61–73 DOI 10.1007/s11417-007-9040-1 Kidnap for Ransom in South East Asia The Case for a Regional Recording Standard Mohd Kassim Noor Mohamed Received: 27 July 2007 / Accepted: 5 November 2007 / Published online: 15 December 2007 # Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2007 Abstract Kidnapping for ransom is not a new phenomenon. According to the Control Risk Group, an international risk consultancy, kidnappings of foreign nationals globally have increased by 275% over
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ever reason, is the same as the right of the employer, for whatever reason, to dispense with the services of such employee (Halbert & Ingulli, 2012).” The doctrine of employment at will emerged as the predominant rule in wrongful discharge cases in America during the latter part of the 19th century. With Employment at Will, known as EAW, even if there is cause to fire someone, their reason does not have to be just, in the sense of being appropriate to the level of performance or the nature
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2011 Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing ACC 626: IT Research Paper Emily Chow 20241123 July 1, 2011 I. Introduction Due to the increasing vulnerability to hacking in today’s changing security environment, the protection of an organization’s information security system has become a business imperative . With the access to the Internet by anyone, anywhere and anytime, the Internet’s “ubiquitous presence and global accessibility” can become an organization’s weakness because its security controls
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FACTORS INFLUENCING DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE PERSONALIZED RELATIONSHIPS Goran VLASIC ---------------------------------------------------------------- Teaching and Research Assistant Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb Trg J. F. Kennedya 6, 10000 Zagreb, CROATIA Phone. +385 98 271 512 Web. www.efzg.hr/gvlasic e-mail. gvlasic@efzg.hr Abstract: Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze, on one hand, factors which influence consumers to start interacting
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▪ Prescription is a term usually applied to easements. We refer to easements by prescription[->0]. ▪ The nominal rate of interest is the: ⁃ rate set forth in the note. ▪ Study aid: "TTIP" TIME: That the co-owners became such at the same time. TITLE: Created by a single will or transfer. INTEREST: Equal shares. POSSESSION: A right to use the whole and share in the profits and costs. Foreclosure[->1] breaks two of the unities: Time and Title. ▪ If economic conditions are rapidly changing, it
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Marina Kumskova Professor Austin LaGrone ENG 101 April 15, 2013 Human Rights violation’s in the Russian Federation. There is no single, universally accepted definition of democracy. In fact, there is no universal model of what democracy should be. The emphasis varies in accordance with the history of a country, its culture and the strength of its civil society, and conditions under which democratic institutions were introduced. One consequence is that countries that use the term “democratic”
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Journal of Retailing 87 (3, 2011) 253–268 Franchising Research Frontiers for the Twenty-First Century Rajiv P. Dant a,∗ , Marko Grünhagen b,1 , Josef Windsperger c,2 a Michael F. Price College of Business, The University of Oklahoma, 307 West Brooks, Norman, OK 73019-4001, USA b Eastern Illinois University, School of Business, 4002 Lumpkin Hall, Charleston, IL 61920, USA c Center of Business Studies, University of Vienna, Brünner Strasse 72, A-1210 Vienna, Austria Abstract About four decades
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