6 research outputs found
An analysis of factors affecting bidders’ decision of mergers and acquisitions: Empirical results from the UK
No full textThe subject of mergers and acquisitions is popular since the development of globalisation. This piece of work studies the factors which would affect the bidders’ decisions of M&As in 2009. In the UK market, number of M&A deals decreased sharply from 2008 to 2009 because of economy recession. It is interesting to find out if the influence factors would change in this special time. The study examines variables of firm characteristics and industrial factors. By running logit regression models, the results shows variables of industrial factors are not significant. While there are different significant variables of firm characteristics in the entire sample size and subsamples. In addition, this research has different findings compared to the previous studies. For example, the debt to assets ratio was a significant variable in the early M&A activities. However, in this research it is not significant in all regression models. It can be assumed that firms are more cautious in making M&A strategies in 2009. To reduce risk, even firms with good liquidity do not want to increase debts to acquire other firms
sj-docx-2-psp-10.1177_01461672211039981 – Supplemental material for Bodies and Minds: Heavier Weight Targets Are De-Mentalized as Lacking in Mental Agency
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-psp-10.1177_01461672211039981 for Bodies and Minds: Heavier Weight Targets Are De-Mentalized as Lacking in Mental Agency by Mattea Sim, Steven M. Almaraz and Kurt Hugenberg in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</p
sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672211039981 – Supplemental material for Bodies and Minds: Heavier Weight Targets Are De-Mentalized as Lacking in Mental Agency
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672211039981 for Bodies and Minds: Heavier Weight Targets Are De-Mentalized as Lacking in Mental Agency by Mattea Sim, Steven M. Almaraz and Kurt Hugenberg in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</p
sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672231167978 – Supplemental material for A Race-Based Size Bias for Black Adolescent Boys: Size, Innocence, and Threat
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672231167978 for A Race-Based Size Bias for Black Adolescent Boys: Size, Innocence, and Threat by Erin Freiburger, Mattea Sim, Amy G. Halberstadt and Kurt Hugenberg in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</p
Lloyd_Online_Appendix – Supplemental material for Good Cop, Bad Cop: Race-Based Differences in Mental Representations of Police
No full textSupplemental material, Lloyd_Online_Appendix for Good Cop, Bad Cop: Race-Based Differences in Mental Representations of Police by E. Paige Lloyd, Mattea Sim, Evans Smalley, Michael J. Bernstein and Kurt Hugenberg in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</p
Who cares about mixed race? Care experiences of young people in an inner city borough
No full textThis thesis is an engagement with the care experiences of mixed young people, to
produce knowledge of how care processes, mediated though the private foster family,
impact on their lives. It begins with an examination of the relationship between the
mixed classification and care, and continues through a discussion of race, race mixing
and the family. The study then examines methodologically how the mixed classification
operates in social work through a discussion of racialisation and its impact on the care
trajectory of young people. Further, it engages with long-standing debates over why
young people with a mixed classification are more likely to be significantly represented in
care. The empirical chapters are comprised of the narrative accounts and visual
representations of the young people and their experiences in care.
A highly participatory research methodology paid critical attention to the narratives of
mixed young people in care between the ages of 12-20 years, as research participants, in
order to engage and elicit rich detail about their care experiences. An innovative mixedmethod
approach emerged in part from their specific circumstances and led to new ways
to research with and understand young people who live in circumstances of instability
often characterised by crisis.
This thesis engages with the care experiences of the participants to reveal how the
discursive repertoires of mixedness and their application through care processes impacts
on lives. Each empirical chapter is presented as an individual case study that examines
the experiences of a single participant in order to interrogate care practices in relation to
mixedness. The themes to emerge centre around family, relationality, professional
intervention, classification and identification, race and mixedness, sex, gender, class,
culture and ethnicity, all within the crisis of the care system. This thesis argues that
placing the care experiences of mixed young people in the centre of debates about how
to conceptualise mixedness could influence care planning
