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Reactions of the Spanish capital market to qualified audit reports
2004
Since mandatory auditing of financial statements was first established in Spain, very few studies have been conducted to test the information content of audit reports in the Spanish capital market. The aim of this study is, then, to test empirically whether there is a relationship between audit qualifications and stock prices in the context of the Spanish market. We have used the event study methodology for this purpose. Our findings show that qualified audit reports do not have information value for investors.
Il recupero scolastico dei bambini stranieri. Una ricerca-intervento con il coinvolgimento degli studenti del Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Formaz…
2016
Accade spesso che nonostante l'impegno quotidiano degli inse- gnanti, gli alunni delle scuole delle zone più deprivate delle cit- tà vivano con profondo malessere i tradizionali ritmi scolasti- ci, che dimostrino un diffuso disimpegno per le attività di stu- dio e che spesso abbandonino il percorso scolastico. Pur essendo in possesso di sufficienti potenzialità cognitive, gli alunni culturalmente e socialmente svantaggiati non riescono ad adat- tarsi ai normali schemi delle proposte formative-curricolari, spesso entrano in conflitto con l'istituzione scolastica e con gli insegnanti e di conseguenza abbandonano il percorso formativo (Coggi, 2009). Gli alunni stranieri richiedono un'atten…
Distributed Leadership and the Visibility/Invisibility Paradox in On-line Communities
2011
This paper analyzes the role of distributed leadership in three on-line communities, reflecting on an observed visibility/invisibility paradox in leadership within these communities. Leaders who downplay their seniority and assume a degree of invisibility, allocating discretionary powers to subordinate levels in an organizational hierarchy, may facilitate the emergence of distributed leadership. Yet, simultaneously, leader-led relations are enabled by high leadership visibility. This paradox—that leaders need to be both highly visible and also invisible, or hands-off, when the occasion requires it—was derived from prior research into e-learning communities and tested in the analysis of disc…