Search results for "Director"

Does board diversity affect firm performance? Evidence from the Italian Financial Sector

2017

The aim of the study is to examine the effect of diversity in the board of directors on the performance of the listed Italian financial institutions. The sample is a data set of 177 firm-year observations covering 2011 to 2014. The performance of the firm is measured by Tobin’s Q while board diversity is analysed considering the percentage of female and foreign directors on the board (or their conjoint presence as a proxy of overall demographic diversity) and task-diversity is measured by board interlocking directorship and busy directors. Findings suggest that female directors have no effect on firm performance. Foreign directors and interlocking directorship have, instead, a positive stat…

Surrealism in the Service of the Fantastic : Jean Rollin, a «parallel» Director in Libertarian French Cinema

2014

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Advertising Peer-To-Peer Networks over the Internet

2002

Weber, Matthieu Advertising Peer-to-Peer Networks over the Internet Jyvaskyla: University of Jyvaskyla, 2006, 120 p. (Jyvaskyla Licentiate Theses in Computing ISSN 1795-9713; 7) ISBN 951-39-2329-0 Finnish summary Most peer-to-peer networks nowadays are decentralized or even fully distributed, meaning that they do not require a central authority for proper operation. Joining such networks is however often performed by using a central directory of its members, thus breaking their decentralized characteristic. This work proposes an advertisement system for peer-to-peer networks that does not rely on a central service, nor requires any dedicated infrastructure to be setup, using only already ex…

Increasing the default interletter spacing of words can help drivers to read traffic signs at longer distances

2018

Would an increase in the default interletter spacing improve the legibility of words in traffic signs? Previous evidence on traffic sign design and recent studies on the cognitive processes involved in visual word recognition have provided conflicting results. The present work examined whether an increase in the default interletter spacing would improve the search of a word in direction traffic signs. To achieve this objective, twenty-two drivers participated in a driving simulation experiment. They followed a highway route and indicated whether a target place name was present among a set of distractors shown on direction traffic signs along the route. We compared the default interletter sp…

Más sobre Ridruejo

2006

Zidane, lógica del honor contra lógica profesional

2006

What have we learnt about board gender diversity as a business strategy? The appointment of board subcommittees

2018

This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: What have we learnt about board gender diversity as a business strategy? The appointment of board subcommittees, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2226. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This paper explores whether a board's gender diversity influences the voluntary formation of its board subcommittees. Female board directorship may become a business strategy for firms if it affects the appointment of board subcommittees. We hypothesize that the voluntary creation of board subcommittees is affe…

Guía comercial de Valencia y su provincia : publicada con datos del anuario del comercio (Bailly-Bailliere)

Index Premiada amb medalla d'Or en l'exposició de Barcelona 1888, amb medalla d'Argent en la de Paris 1889 i amb el gran Diploma d'Honor en el Concurs Internacional de Madrid de 1890. Any 5é de la publicació

Neural Networks to Determine the Relationships Between Business Innovation and Gender Aspects

2021

Gender aspects of management, innovation and entrepreneurship are gaining more and more importance as cross-cutting issues for researchers, practitioners and decision makers. Extant literature pays a growing attention to the hypothesis that there exists a correlation between the gender diversity of corporate boards of directors and the business attitude to innovation. In this paper we introduce a working framework to test the aforementioned hypothesis and to examine the correlation between board diversity and innovation perception of a business. This framework is based on correlation computation and feed-forward neural networks, and it is used to evaluate whether the gender component may be…

Visibilidad LGTB en tiempos de “gilets jaunes”

2020

La presente investigación se plantea como un acercamiento a distintos espacios urbanos alternativos franceses desde una perspectiva LGTB. La recogida de datos se hizo a partir de entrevistas semiestructuradas a distintos responsables de espacios culturales y a jóvenes directores de cine. También se hace servir el análisis de los datos conocidos en base a una observación participante, ya que este trabajo parte de una experiencia personal llevada a cabo en París durante entre 2018 y 2019. En el plazo de dos años hemos detectado un importante cambio de la situación en lo referido a la visibilidad y percepción de la diversidad sexual en el ámbito francés. Y todo ello sin perder de vista el impa…