Search results for "Organizations"

Female leaders and financial inclusion: Evidence from microfinance institutions

2023

This research advances the hypothesis that female leaders – chief executive officers (CEOs), chairs, and directors – of a microfinance institution (MFI) give more priority to the poorest families in loan provision than male leaders do. We differentiate between a depth and a width dimension of financial inclusion. The data set is a unique global panel of MFIs collected from MFI raters’ reports. Our sample is also unique in the sense that about one-third of all MFIs have a female CEO. The problem of endogeneity for the female leader is resolved by running Heckman’s two-step endogenous dummy variable estimation with an instrument for the female leader. We find evidence of greater depth financi…

Ekonomikas un vadības zinātne

2006

Momentum transport and bed shear stress distribution in a meandering bend: Experimental analysis in a laboratory flume

2015

The paper concerns the mechanisms underlying the distribution of the bed shear stress in meandering bends. Literature indicates that cross-stream circulation strongly affects the redistribution of the downstream velocity, but the feedback between them is still poorly understood. The aim of this paper is to gain some insight into how the momentum transport by cross-stream circulation contributes to the bed shear stress redistribution. Experimental analysis, based on a detailed dataset collected in a large-amplitude meandering laboratory flume, is presented. From these data an evaluation is made of the terms in the depth-averaged momentum equations and the analysis is especially devoted to te…

Audit Quality and Corporate Governance: Evidence from the Microfinance Industry

2012

This study uses a unique, hand-collected sample of microfinance institutions from 73 countries that typically are not investigated in accounting research to analyze the relationships between audit quality and governance mechanisms. We examine two measures of audit quality, namely, the use of Big Four auditors and the presence of internal auditors who report to the boards of these institutions. The empirical analysis of this study reveals that these two quality metrics are highly related, although we also demonstrate that these metrics capture distinctive aspects of audit quality. In particular, the presence of internal auditors is related to other indicators of stricter governance, whereas …

Strengthening SMEs’ innovation culture through collaborations with public research organizations. Do all firms benefit equally?

2017

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether collaborating with public research organizations (PROs) contributes to strengthening the innovation culture of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). We examine to what extent their innovation culture is reinforced by collaborations with research organizations and investigate the type of organizational strategies that enhance this effect of collaboration. The empirical study is based on a survey of firms that collaborate with the largest Spanish PRO, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Our results indicate that SMEs differ greatly in their capacity to strengthen their innovation culture through collaboration with research organizatio…

Cinq facteurs clés pour comprendre les territoires sportifs

2006

Pour expliquer la répartition spatiale des activités sportives et la création de territoires sportifs, cet article envisage cinq facteurs clés qui sont les fondements nécessaires de toute analyse. La répartition de la population introduit un effet de masse sous-jacent à toute pratique d’une activité sportive ; le milieu physique, s’il n’en demeure pas moins indispensable pour comprendre la localisation de certains sports, subit un processus d’artificialisation ; la diffusion spatiale introduit une dimension historique obligatoire ; même contestée, l’influence de l’espace social au sens large se fait ressentir à condition d’utiliser la bonne échelle d’analyse ; enfin, la dynamique spatiale i…

Funzione riflessiva e sostenibilità organizzativa: Verso un modello di comprensione e trasformazione del disegno istituzionale nelle organizzazioni s…

2018

Il lavoro presenta la “funzione riflessiva” come modello concettuale attraverso il quale concepire il benessere/malessere lavorativo in termini di epifenomeno di specifiche modalità di funzionamento e comportamento del sistema organizzativo. La “funzione riflessiva” delle organizzazioni non attiene alla competenza razionale di pensiero, non è solo un fatto individuale ma, soprattutto, non può ritenersi un assunto normale e consueto di funzionamento organizzativo; è, piuttosto, una rilevante eccezione che va pazientemente costruita e monitorata ogni giorno, a tutti i livelli dell’organizzazione, da quello direzionale a quello manageriale, fino ai ruoli operativi. The work introduces the "ref…

The discovery, distribution, and diversity of DNA viruses associated with Drosophila melanogaster in Europe

2021

Drosophila melanogaster is an important model for antiviral immunity in arthropods, but very few DNA viruses have been described from the family Drosophilidae. This deficiency limits our opportunity to use natural host-pathogen combinations in experimental studies, and may bias our understanding of the Drosophila virome. Here, we report fourteen DNA viruses detected in a metagenomic analysis of 6668 pool-sequenced Drosophila, sampled from forty-seven European locations between 2014 and 2016. These include three new nudiviruses, a new and divergent entomopoxvirus, a virus related to Leptopilina boulardi filamentous virus, and a virus related to Musca domestica salivary gland hypertrophy viru…

Are men universally more dismissing than women? Gender differences in romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions

2003

The authors thank Susan Sprecher (USA), Del Paulhus (Canada), Glenn D. Wilson (England), Qazi Rahman (England), Alois Angleitner (Germany), Angelika Hofhansl (Austria), Tamio Imagawa (Japan), Minoru Wada (Japan), Junichi Taniguchi (Japan), and Yuji Kanemasa (Japan) for helping with data collection and contributing significantly to the samples used in this study.

Wage Gap as a Possible Determinant of Gender Inequality

2021

Recent academic researchers have indicated that there are possible inequalities concerning work and pay in different countries, professions and economic sectors. The aim of current research is to analyse recent scientific findings on the wage gap depending on gender and empirical data in Latvia using EU-SILC surveys, Labour Surveys and monthly statistical data on wages and salaries for women and men. The findings indicated that in various economic fields and occupations women were under-represented, and amongst most of these fields the modal net wage interval for women was lower than the modal net wage interval for men. It was also concluded that in January 2018 the average gross income fro…