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Formation of cross-border corporate strategic alliances: The roles of trust and cultural, institutional, and geographical distances
No full textWe investigate the effects of four macro variables (trust and cultural, institutional, and geographical distances) on the propensity to form a strategic alliance. From a set of 26 countries, we construct 315 country pairs over the period from 1996 to 2004. We collect our data from the SDC platinum database that identifies how many cross-border strategic alliances occurred between the firms in the country pairs in each year. For each country pair we construct measurements for the macro variables. Then in a multivariate framework, we examine their effects on the number of cross-border alliances. We find that the cross-border alliances are more likely to occur between firms from countries that have higher trust and shorter cultural and geographical distances—the institutional distance does not have an effect. Additional tests show that greater trust lessens the adverse effect of geographical distance, but a shorter cultural distance does not
Culturally responsive leadership practices: a principal’s reflection
No full textThis article focuses on presenting culturally responsive leadership practices that could help school principals transcend rigorous accountability mandates by using two student-centered practices: culturally responsive leadership and teacher self-efficacy. This is a contextual narration of the author’s 12 years of leadership experience at a South Texas elementary school. The implications of this autoethnography are to inform the leadership practices of present and future school principals who need to develop a human agency and utilize high-needs students’ communities’ cultural wealth to positively impact their academic success
Effects of telephone aftercare intervention for obese hispanic children on body fat percentage, physical fitness, and blood lipid profiles
Get PDFWe investigated effects of 10-month telephone aftercare intervention following primary obesity intervention on changes in body fat percentage, physical fitness, and lipid profiles in obese Hispanic children. Seventy-one obese children were randomly assigned to (1) primary intervention and 10-month telephone aftercare intervention (PITI; N = 26), (2) primary intervention only (PI; n = 25), and (3) control (CON; N = 20). Anthropometric data, physical fitness, and blood samples were obtained before (PRE) and after (POST) eight-week primary intervention, and 10-month telephone aftercare intervention (1YEAR). Eight weeks of primary intervention significantly reduced body fat percentage, total cholesterol, triglycerides, and low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C) with increases in VO2max, flexibility, muscular strength, and HDL-C (PITI and PI, p \u3c 0.05). 1YEAR measurements returned to baseline for the PI whereas those measurements in PITI remained significantly different when compared to PRE (p \u3c 0.05). CON observed negative changes in all variables at POST, which were improved slightly during the subsequent school year. Levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, and LDL-C are correlated to changes in body fat percentage, suggesting that fat loss is effective in preventing and managing obesity-related disorders. Results indicate that telephone intervention is an effective aftercare in stabilizing positive changes obtained from a short-term intensive intervention
Religion, Acculturarive Stress and Immigration Generations among Hispanics in The Texas-Mexico Border: Predictors of Attitudes Toward Substance Use
Get PDFUnderstanding Hispanic cultural aspects and their influence on mental health will be crucial to better serve Hispanics (Kouyoumdjian, et al., 2003). Alcohol and drug use disorders have been identified as a major health problem in the U.S. Hispanic population (Vega, Sribney, & Achara-Abrahams, 2003). Regarding substance use, religiosity tends to be a protective factor among Hispanics. Acculturation and acculturative stress have been found as additional factors associated with substance use. Moreover, an individual’s intentions to engage in certain behavior can be defined by their attitudes toward this behavior and their perceived subjective norms regarding such behavior (Lorenzo-Blanco, et al., 2016). This study investigated the impact acculturative stress, religion, and immigrant generation has on substance use attitudes. Data of the current study showed religious commitment to be a protective factor against pro-drug attitudes and acculturative stress as a risk factor of drug risk perception
Erratum to Effects of Exercise Training on Fat Loss and Lean Mass Gain in Mexican-American and Korean Premenopausal Women (International Journal of Endocrinology (2017) 2017 (7) DOI: 10.1155/2019/5465869)
No full textIn the article titled Effects of Exercise Training on Fat Loss and Lean Mass Gain in Mexican-American and Korean Premenopausal Women [1], during the production stage, there was a typing error in the Abstract and Conclusions sections, as the sentence Exercise training had a beneficial effect on reducing BMI, fat percentage, fat mass, and visceral adipose tissue area but had no effect on increasing lean mass for Mexican-American and Korean premenopausal obese women should be corrected as follows: Exercise training had a beneficial effect on reducing BMI, fat percentage, fat mass, and visceral adipose tissue area but increasing lean mass for Mexican-American and Korean premenopausal obese women
Do Reticent Managers Misreport Data during Firm Surveys? Cross-Checking Reticent Managers’ Answers with Other Information
No full textPrevious studies have shown reticent managers answer sensitive questions differently than other managers do. If this is because they misreport information, it will be difficult to accurately estimate averages or regression coefficients. It is possible, however, they answer sensitive questions differently because their firms are different. This paper presents evidence from a quasi-experiment that suggests reticent managers misreport sensitive information. The paper first shows reticent managers in Nigeria report paying higher wages than other managers do. It then shows workers at these firms report lower, or similar, wages. The simplest explanation for this is that reticent managers misreport wages
An effective multi-wave algorithm for solving the max-mean dispersion problem
No full textWe propose an effective multi-wave algorithm organized in multiple search phases for the max-mean dispersion problem, which offers enhancement of neighborhood search algorithms by incorporating the notion of persistent attractiveness in memory based strategies. In each wave, a vertical phase and a horizontal phase are first alternated to reach a boundary solution. Then a concluding horizontal phase is executed to search around this boundary solution for further solution refinement. Finally, an oscillation phase and a diversified initial solution generation phase focus on search diversification to build well-diversified initial solutions for subsequent waves and passes. Experimental results show that the proposed approach performs quite competitive with state-of-the-art algorithms in the literature. Additional analysis discloses the benefits of the key ingredients in the proposed algorithm
Association between managerial stock ownership and firm efficiency
No full textThis study examines how firm efficiency varies according to managerial ownership. Prior studies on how managerial ownership affects firm value provide inconsistent results. Although firm value is determined by various factors, this study tries to directly link managerial ownership to operating efficiency. It finds evidence consistent with the incentive alignment hypothesis: managerial ownership is positively associated with firm efficiency. It also finds that foreign investors enhance the association between managerial ownership and firm efficiency, whereas an affiliation with large business conglomerates in Korea (chaebols) lowers this association. It contributes to the existing literature by linking managerial ownership to firm efficiency, which we believe is an underlying indicator of the effect of managerial ownership on managers\u27 behaviour in alignment/misalignment with firm value. It also helps interested parties better understand the dynamic roles among management and foreign ownership, and chaebols