10th Biennial Midwest/Midsouth Securities Law Conference

Materials from the UK/CLE 10th Biennial Midwest/Midsouth Securities Law Conference held in February 2000

Employee Reporting in the U.K.: An Empirical Study of Managerial Objectives and Behaviour

Since the 1970's, an increase of interest was shown by researchers in employee reporting, but little empirical attention has been focused on the managerial determinants. This research addresses the need to understand how and why voluntary employee reporting developed, examining its place in the wider organisational and social context. A three-pronged enquiry was carried out in the U.K. during 1981-83, comprising documentary analysis, postal questionnaire survey and personal interviews, to find out managerial objectives and attitudes in employee communications. It traced influences from specific organisational, social and societal factors on employee reporting. Analysis of the qualitative data consistently demonstrated the importance attached by managers to reporting financial information to the employees. Their communication objectives showed a dominant social theme. Employee reporting developments result from strong faith or commitment to communications on the part of management, and their perceptions of specific pressing organisational needs and wider social and moral issues at the time. The study highlights the complexity of managers' perceptions and mixed feelings about the intrinsic value and conflicting social interests in employee information. There remains scope for experimentation on the uses and designs of employee communication systems. This research represents a contribution to the developing interpretive approach in accounting research, and to the debates about corporate accountability to the employees and public policy making

Consolidating power: Technology, ideology, and Philadelphia\u27s growth in the early republic

This dissertation examines the ways that moneyed Philadelphians invented corporate power in America during the first four decades of the federal republic, specifically focusing on business corporations, such as canal companies and banks, and on a public corporation, Philadelphia\u27s municipal government. Through evidence from company and municipal records and publications, the private papers and correspondence of corporate officers, newspapers, pamphlets, and legislative acts and proceedings, this study identifies the people and the technological and financial processes that contributed to the establishment and entrenchment of corporate economic and political power.;From the 1790s to the 1830s, Philadelphia-area residents demanded cheaper transportation, a better water supply, and more adequate credit facilities and financial institutions. The technical, legal, and monetary requirements of corporations that administered these projects served to increase their leverage in political and economic relations with other individuals and groups, allowing the few who controlled those institutions to exert power over space in unprecedented ways. The men who dominated those corporations justified this increased influence by successfully casting their own interests as being synonymous with those of the public at large. In addition, by the 1810s, a small group of Philadelphians recognized the centrality of transportation and banking to economic growth and coupled them to the corporate form to establish a forum at once withdrawn from public input yet able to exert power in public politics: the meeting-rooms of corporations run by men with close business and family ties.;Most significantly, this study argues that the creation of such a domain held serious consequences for the legacy of the American Revolution. Philadelphia corporations provided broader political and economic independence for more people than before the Revolution; indeed, these companies grew because of the great demand for their services and the freedoms they fostered. However, as corporate associates consolidated their hold over institutions they gained increasing command over what direction growth could take and how its rewards would be distributed. These phenomena contributed greatly to the transformation of America from a gentry-dominated society in the eighteenth century to the corporate-dominated one of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

The development of non-life insurance in Australia

In Australia there has been little, if any, academic study of non-life insurance. The same is true of the U.K. Most of the literature available in both countries is either technical - descriptions of methods, policies, legal decisions etc. - or consists of company histories sponsored by the companies concerned. The latter, while often useful, are as a rule not notable for their impartiality. The purpose of the present study is to describe the institutions and history of the Australian non-life insurance market. The work is concerned with market structure and performance, rather than investment polj.cies. The latter are mentioned only when they seem to be relevant to the principal purpose.. The approach adopted has been influenced by economic theories of firms and markets, particularly discussions of oligopoly to be found in the theoretical literatur

The 9th International Conference on Sustainable Development

The International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD) was held virtually on September 20-21, 2021, with the conference theme “Research for Impact: A Sustainable and Inclusive Planet.” ICSD provides a forum for academia, government, civil society, UN agencies, and the private sector to come together to share practical solutions to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The two-day conference hosted 49 different sessions across multiple time zones to accommodate the global audience, with 204 oral presenters, 239 poster presenters, and 977 total authors

Social responsibility and ethics

Marketing: theory, evidence, practice challenges traditional marketing theories and concepts while presenting a research-driven framework for understanding the marketing process

City in Sight: Dutch Dealings with Urban Change

Huge social transformations and turbulent political events - 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh - have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this background, the contributors to this volume bring the city in sight from various disciplinary perspectives and relate their research findings to both national and international debates on urban problems. In this way, City in Sight not only provides insight into the most urgent questions of contemporary cities in the Netherlands, but also how these relate to similar problems in other countries as well. Table of contents: Part I Urban Transformations and Local Settings 1 Post-Industrialization and Ethnocentrism in Contemporary Dutch Cities: The Effects of Job Opportunities and Residential Segregation / Jeroen van der Waal and Jack Burgers 2 Unraveling Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Two European Welfare States / Sako Musterd and Fenne M. Pinkster 3 The Effects of State-Led Gentrification in the Netherlands / Peter van der Graaf and Lex Veldboer 4 Problematic Areas or Places of Fun? Ethnic Place Marketing in the Multicultural City of Rotterdam / Ilse van Liempt and Lex Veldboer Part II Urban Citizenship and Civic Life 5 Local and Transnational Aspects of Citizenship Political Practices and Identifications of Middle-class Migrants in Rotterdam / Marianne van Bochove, Katja Rusinovic and Godfried Engbersen 6 A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Real-life Expressions of Vital Citizenship in City Neighborhoods / Ted van de Wijdeven and Frank Hendriks 7 Organize Liberal, Think Conservative: Citizenship in Light Communities / Menno Hurenkamp 8 ‘Control over the Remote Control’, or How to Handle the ‘Normal’ World? The Policy and Practice of Community Care for People with Psychiatric or Intellectual Disabilities / Loes Verplanke and Jan Willem Duyvendak 9 Changing Urban Networks and Gossip: Moroccan Migrant Women’s Networks in the Dutch Welfare State / Marguerite van den Berg Part III Urban Governance and Professional Politics 10 The Relationship Between Policy Governance and Front-line Governance / Pieter Tops and Casper Hartman 11 Between Ideals and Pragmatism: Practitioners Working with Immigrant Youth in Amsterdam and Berlin / Floris Vermeulen and Tim Plaggenborg 12 Explaining the Role of Civic Organizations in Neighborhood Co-production / Karien Dekker, Rene´ Torenvlied, Beate Völker and Herman Lelieveldt 13 The Amsterdam Office Space Tragedy: An Institutional Reflection on Balancing Office Space Development in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region / Leonie Janssen-Jansen and Willem Salet The Dutch Orange and the Big Apple: A Comparative Commentary / John MollenkopfDe bijdragen in deze bundel geven zicht op de stad en stedelijke verandering vanuit verschillende invalshoeken. De auteurs plaatsen hun bevindingen in de context van het Nederlandse en internationale debat over stedelijke problematiek. City in Sight laat zien wat de meest prangende kwesties zijn waar Nederlandse steden zich momenteel voor gesteld zien

D'Arcy Wentworth 1762-1827 : a second chance

This thesis examines the life and times of D'Arcy Wentworth. Born in 1762 in Portadown, Ireland, he attended a local school, trained as a doctor in Tanderagee and moved to England in 1785 to further his medical studies. While in London, Wentworth appeared at the Old Bailey charged with highway robbery. Although acquitted, he saw no future by remaining in England. With the help of his family and friends, he secured a berth on the Neptune In 1790 and sailed for the penal colony of New South Wales. For Wentworth, this land of exiles was to become a land of opportunity, but the road was not easy. He encountered the prejudice, factionalism and petty-mindedness of a small and insular community. At times it seemed as if he would succumb to despondency, or bow to the caprices of his fellow colonists. On a number of occasions he threatened to return home. Yet he remained in the colony and, with quiet determination, set about making good. Wentworth stands out as one of the few officers who served almost continuously from the time of Governor Phillip, through the troubled administrations of Hunter, King and Bligh, to those of Macquarie and Brisbane. During the years from 1790 to 1827 he weathered financial setbacks, personal attacks and political Intrigue. With time he managed to redeem his name, win the respect and admiration of many colonists, and acquire vast estates. He also made a significant contribution to the economic growth and development of the settlement, assisting in its transition from a prison to a self-sufficient and relatively prosperous colony which enjoyed a measure of freedom. In this biographical study I have endeavoured to examine Wentworth’s character and actions in the context of the people and the events that surrounded him in an attempt to explain what he thought and did, and why he was as he was