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Proposed legislation on public policy and industrial warfare submitted to industrial conferees, Washington, D.C.
Title
Proposed legislation on public policy and industrial warfare submitted to industrial conferees, Washington, D.C.
Creator
League for Industrial Rights
Date Issued
1919
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3332782
Subject Headings
Industrial laws and legislation -- United States.
Format
Document (PDF)
Facts and figures of the automobile industry
Title
Facts and figures of the automobile industry.
Date Issued
1920-1933
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3358579
Subject Headings
Automobile industry and trade -- United States -- Periodicals.
Format
Document (PDF)
Report on conditions in the Southern textile industry to the Board of Directors of the American Unitarian Association
Title
Report on conditions in the Southern textile industry to the Board of Directors of the American Unitarian Association.
Creator
Dexter, Robert Cloutman
Date Issued
1930
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3090824
Subject Headings
Textile industry and fabrics -- Southern States., Textile workers -- Southern States.
Format
Document (PDF)
Protect the National Labor Relations Act! : facts and figures on the act, the board, and their achievements
Title
Protect the National Labor Relations Act! : facts and figures on the act, the board, and their achievements.
Creator
Labor's Non-Partisan League
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3358289
Subject Headings
Industrial relations -- United States., Labor laws and legislation -- United States.
Format
Document (PDF)
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: Its Genesis, Implementation and Impact (Including a Case Study of the Texas Gulf Coast Petrochemical Industry)
Title
The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: Its Genesis, Implementation and Impact (Including a Case Study of the Texas Gulf Coast Petrochemical Industry).
Creator
Anderson, Bruce McDonald, Florida Atlantic University, Zimmerer, Thomas W.
Abstract/Description
This thesis reviews the historical background, legislative history, implementation and impact of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. A study was conducted to determine the impact of the Act on forty-five petrochemical plants located in the Texas Gulf Coast Region. Factors surveyed included costs associated with compliance with the Act, staffing, union and employee relations, safety standards, compliance activities and Federal inspections.
Date Issued
1974
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13620
Subject Headings
Industrial safety--Law and legislation--United States, Industrial hygiene--Law and legislation--United States, Petroleum products
Format
Document (PDF)
market valuation of the effect of the tax amortizability of purchased goodwill
Title
The market valuation of the effect of the tax amortizability of purchased goodwill.
Creator
Alshinifi, Saleh H., Florida Atlantic University, Hopwood, William S.
Abstract/Description
This study investigates the market valuation of the effect of goodwill tax amortization on corporate acquisitions. Specifically, the study tests whether a significant positive change exists in the market reaction to acquisitions qualifying for the Internal Revenue Code section 197. Two methodologies are employed in the examination of the market assessment of the effect of the Internal Revenue Code section 197. First, a market model methodology is utilized in order to pre examine whether the...
Show moreThis study investigates the market valuation of the effect of goodwill tax amortization on corporate acquisitions. Specifically, the study tests whether a significant positive change exists in the market reaction to acquisitions qualifying for the Internal Revenue Code section 197. Two methodologies are employed in the examination of the market assessment of the effect of the Internal Revenue Code section 197. First, a market model methodology is utilized in order to pre examine whether the market reacted differently to acquisitions that qualified for goodwill tax deductibility relative to acquisitions that did not. Second, multiple regression models were obtained for testing the study's hypotheses. The results of this study support the hypothesis that a positive change exists in the market reaction to acquisitions that qualify for the internal revenue code 197 relative to those that do not. There are two implications for these findings. First, they imply that acquiring firms did retain some of the tax benefits associated with the change in the tax law. Second, and given the findings of previous studies, the findings of this study also imply that the expected tax savings are actually shared between the acquiring firm and the target's shareholders.
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Date Issued
2002
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12020
Subject Headings
Industrial safety--Law and legislation--United States, Industrial hygiene--Law and legislation--United States, Petroleum products
Format
Document (PDF)
National war labor board
Title
National war labor board.
Creator
United Steelworkers of America
Date Issued
1944
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2795850
Subject Headings
Steel industry and trade --United States., Cost and standard of living --United States., Wages --United States.
Format
Document (PDF)
Communists in the textile strike, an answer to Gorman, Green and Company
Title
Communists in the textile strike, an answer to Gorman, Green and Company.
Creator
Hathaway, Clarence Albert
Date Issued
1934
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3332821
Subject Headings
Labor unions and communism -- United States., Strikes and lockouts -- Textile industry -- United States.
Format
Document (PDF)
Delivery failure close-out
Title
Delivery failure close-out: an event study on the effects of newly adopted regulation SHO amendments.
Creator
Scherle, Richard., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
A generally illegal form of short selling in United States equity markets, called "naked shorting," occurs when a seller of stock sells shares that do not exist. This type of short selling has negative consequences that result from the tactic's ability to be used as a tool to artificially inflate an issuer's stock supply, which introduces significant harm to the integrity of the market's natural forces of supply and demand. Newly adopted amendments to the Securities and Exchange Commission's...
Show moreA generally illegal form of short selling in United States equity markets, called "naked shorting," occurs when a seller of stock sells shares that do not exist. This type of short selling has negative consequences that result from the tactic's ability to be used as a tool to artificially inflate an issuer's stock supply, which introduces significant harm to the integrity of the market's natural forces of supply and demand. Newly adopted amendments to the Securities and Exchange Commission's short sale governance regulation, called Regulation SHO, required the mandatory purchasing of shares by certain market participants in order for those participants to close-out previously excused delivery failures, called "grandfathered" failures. This study examines the consequences of this new regulation, in terms of share price and volume, for those few securities that had the most persistent delivery failure problems. Because the regulation mandates the purchase of shares by certain influential market participants, I examine if the stock markets of these securities exhibited unusual volatility which may be indicative of the market maker trying to cover at low cost. Using technical analysis techniques, such as volume surge detection (using moving volume averages), the performance of the target securities will be compared with appropriate benchmark indices for the purpose of detecting unusual activity. Unusual activity may be consistent with my hypothesis that market makers may encourage additional volatility to cause liquidity problems for marginal investors which forces them to sell part or all of their position. As discussed in great detail, the extra marginal shares injected into the market by the action of forced selling by these marginal investors may be used by the market makers to lower their cost of regulation compliance.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/210002
Subject Headings
Securities industry, Investment analysis, Short selling, Capitalism, Moral and ethical aspects
Format
Document (PDF)
Business and government cooperation for postwar prosperity
Title
Business and government cooperation for postwar prosperity.
Creator
Whitney, Nathaniel Ruggles
Date Issued
1944
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3358568
Subject Headings
Industry and state., World War, 1939-1945 -- Post-war problems, Economic.
Format
Document (PDF)
Dinner conversation
Title
Dinner conversation: eating sustainably without dietary elitism.
Creator
Wood, Alyssa A., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
This study explores the perceived elitism within both the environmentalist community and general public in regards to "environmental diets" such as : vegetarianism, veganism, locavore-ism, and ethical omnivory. I explore these diets and potential expressions of elitism within the framework developed by Morrison and Dunlap in their discussion of environmental elitism. Examples come from published sources as well as personal anecdotes. Through this study, I suggest that this perceived elitism...
Show moreThis study explores the perceived elitism within both the environmentalist community and general public in regards to "environmental diets" such as : vegetarianism, veganism, locavore-ism, and ethical omnivory. I explore these diets and potential expressions of elitism within the framework developed by Morrison and Dunlap in their discussion of environmental elitism. Examples come from published sources as well as personal anecdotes. Through this study, I suggest that this perceived elitism is actually not elitism per se, but a very thin line of tension between describing the ideal food systems aside the current state of food inequity and industrial agriculture. Simply, I am trying to grapple with how to be educated in the fields of Food Studies and systems of oppression without perpetuating elitism alongside the system which desperately needs reform.
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Date Issued
2012
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359330
Subject Headings
Food industry and trade, Food habits, Nutrition policy, Food, Marketing, Eating (Philosophy), Food, Social aspects
Format
Document (PDF)
political economy of domestic corn ethanol production
Title
The political economy of domestic corn ethanol production.
Creator
Fow, Samantha Joule., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
Since its inception, the domestic corn ethanol industry in the United States has been dependant on federal subsidies and trade restrictions to keep afloat. Although this political support has allowed the industry to grow, there have been a number of negative externalities as a result, namely the growing demand for corn causing significant increases in the prices of many consumer goods. Despite the fact that consumers are facing rising prices in agricultural and energy markets, ethanol still...
Show moreSince its inception, the domestic corn ethanol industry in the United States has been dependant on federal subsidies and trade restrictions to keep afloat. Although this political support has allowed the industry to grow, there have been a number of negative externalities as a result, namely the growing demand for corn causing significant increases in the prices of many consumer goods. Despite the fact that consumers are facing rising prices in agricultural and energy markets, ethanol still maintains a level of support around the general American populace that is counterintuitive given its economic reality. In this paper, I contend that much of ethanol's support is maintained through the intentional manipulation of the product's public perception on behalf of politicians and industrial superpowers. I will demonstrate this phenomenon through the use of both Stigler's (1971) and Pelzman's (1976) model of iso-majority.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77666
Subject Headings
Corn products industry, By-products, Economic aspects, Bioenergetics, Alcohol as fuel, Environmental aspects, Petroleum industry and trade, Political aspects
Format
Document (PDF)
Target stock price runup prior to acquisitions
Title
Target stock price runup prior to acquisitions.
Creator
Brigida, Matthew David., College of Business, Department of Finance
Abstract/Description
Information leakage before full acquisitions has been widely documented. The information leakage, and the resulting pre-bid runup in the target's stock, generally increases the total cost of the acquisition. That is, information leakage and the ensuing pre-bid runup is a gain to the target and loss to the acquirer. Herein, I first ascertain the characteristics of full acquisitions that affect the amount of information leakage. I find that if the acquirer borrows to finance the acquisition...
Show moreInformation leakage before full acquisitions has been widely documented. The information leakage, and the resulting pre-bid runup in the target's stock, generally increases the total cost of the acquisition. That is, information leakage and the ensuing pre-bid runup is a gain to the target and loss to the acquirer. Herein, I first ascertain the characteristics of full acquisitions that affect the amount of information leakage. I find that if the acquirer borrows to finance the acquisition then information leakage is greater. Further if the acquirer is foreign, if the target is a high-tech firm, and if the target has options on its stock all increase information leakage. I find hostile deals are effective in reducing information leakage. Lastly, information leakage increases in the percentage of managerial ownership. I next hypothesize that the identity and intent of partial acquirers is known to market participants before the announcement of a partial acquisition. I find that the market can anticipate whether a partial acquirer intends to fully-acquire or take an active role in the management of the target. Also, the market anticipates whether the acquirer is a private investment find or a non-financial corporation. Further, the acquirer's identity or intent is fully reflected in the target's stock price before the announcement of the partial acquisition. These results help explain why there are few partial acquisitions as precursors to full acquisitions., I next hypothesize that macroeconomic factors affect information leakage, and may serve as a signal of when to speculate on acquisitions. I find that information leakage is positively related to shocks in both expected economic conditions and financing costs, the latter signaling to speculators that acquisitions are imminent. I also find information about an imminent full acquisition is leaked earlier when there are positive shocks to economic conditions and financing costs.
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Date Issued
2009
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/368613
Subject Headings
Consolidation and merger of corporations, Negotiation in business, Investment analysis, Stocks, Prices, Securities industry, Corrupt practices
Format
Document (PDF)
Essays on high-tech acquisitions and divestitures
Title
Essays on high-tech acquisitions and divestitures.
Creator
Benou, Georgia., Florida Atlantic University, Madura, Jeff
Abstract/Description
Since the early 1990s there has been a substantial increase both in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as well as in divestitures of high-tech companies. This dissertation examines the takeover and divestiture activity in high-tech markets in an effort to extend our current knowledge regarding high-tech companies. In that context, various firm characteristics and their relation to firm performance are investigated. Furthermore, an attempt is made to examine the role of investment banks and their...
Show moreSince the early 1990s there has been a substantial increase both in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as well as in divestitures of high-tech companies. This dissertation examines the takeover and divestiture activity in high-tech markets in an effort to extend our current knowledge regarding high-tech companies. In that context, various firm characteristics and their relation to firm performance are investigated. Furthermore, an attempt is made to examine the role of investment banks and their impact---if any---on shareholder wealth. This study finds that for domestic high-tech acquisitions, the higher the level of the target's R&D expenditures, the lower the bidder's announcement period wealth effects. Furthermore, the more MEDIA attention the tech target receives prior to the acquisition the more favorably investors react to news about the acquisition. This finding is common both for domestic and international tech acquisitions. Findings on the role of investment bank advisors vary across the three studies. Essay 1 shows that high-tech acquisitions advised by top-tier investment banks perform worse upon announcement than acquisitions advised by lower-tier investment banks. In Essay 2 the tier of the investment bank advisor makes a difference only during the difficult and uncertain years of the tech downturn time period. Finally, in Essay 3 it is found that sellers benefit from the presence of an investment bank advising the buyer, suggesting that whenever the buyer uses an investment bank, the assets are divested at a high price. However, it is only during the years following the end of the tech-bubble period that buying-firm shareholders reacted less favorably to acquisitions of high-tech divested assets certified by an investment bank.
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Date Issued
2004
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT12101
Subject Headings
Corporate divestiture--United States, Consolidation and merger of corporations--Management, High technology industries--Management, Corporations--Finance
Format
Document (PDF)
Brownfields, hometown democracy and development: an uneasy sustainability alliance
Title
Brownfields, hometown democracy and development: an uneasy sustainability alliance.
Creator
Kleeger, Jeff, Comparative Studies Program, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued
2008-10-24
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT165268p
Subject Headings
Brownfields -- Law and legislation -- United States, Hazardous waste site remediation -- Law and legislation -- United States, Industrial real estate -- Environmental aspects, Urban renewal -- Environmental aspects
Format
Set of related objects
Are the regulatory reforms working?
Title
Are the regulatory reforms working?: evidence from audit committee members' selection of auditors.
Creator
Looknanan-Brown, Veena., College of Business, School of Accounting
Abstract/Description
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act made audit committees directly responsible for the appointment, compensation, and supervision of companies' auditors. Limited research in the auditor selection process and PCAOB inspections suggest that managers, not audit committees, may still be selecting the auditors, and that inspection reports are not useful. This study addresses both of these areas. This paper considers two theories of governance, Agency Theory and Institution Theory, to analyze the audit...
Show moreThe Sarbanes-Oxley Act made audit committees directly responsible for the appointment, compensation, and supervision of companies' auditors. Limited research in the auditor selection process and PCAOB inspections suggest that managers, not audit committees, may still be selecting the auditors, and that inspection reports are not useful. This study addresses both of these areas. This paper considers two theories of governance, Agency Theory and Institution Theory, to analyze the audit committee members' auditor selection process. The study examines whether Audit Committee Members use two specific types of audit quality indicators, other than managers' recommendation, in evaluating auditors. In a setting where the manager recommends the auditor, the auditors' inspection results (favorable/unfavorable) and a prior manager/auditor affiliation (absent/present) are manipulated in a between-subject research design, using financially literate professionals as a proxy for audit committee members. The study finds that audit quality perception and auditor selection are jointly determined. Inspection results are positively associated with audit quality perception and auditor selection. The nature of a manager-auditor affiliation is directly associated with audit quality perception and inversely related to auditor selection. Further, controlling for perception, audit committee members are more likely to recommend auditors with unfavorable inspection results, if a prior affiliation with management is present than if an affiliation is absent. Overall, the results indicate that audit committee members are diligent in evaluating auditors, and PCAOB inspection results are useful. The results of this study contribute to the audit committee effectiveness and PCAOB literature.
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Date Issued
2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3318671
Subject Headings
Financial services industry, Management, Financial institutions, Law and legislation, Corporate governance, Law and legislation, Auditing, Standards, Corporations, Auditing, Standards
Format
Document (PDF)
A review of corporate-based wellness programs for general health promotion and prevention of type II diabetes mellitus
Title
A review of corporate-based wellness programs for general health promotion and prevention of type II diabetes mellitus.
Creator
Hemmings, Jodian R., Blanks, Robert H., Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Science
Abstract/Description
This research focuses on obesity and other major risk factors for chronic diseases such as Type II Diabetes Mellitus, Heart Disease, and Stroke. Worksite wellness programs have been successful in this realm of health promotion and disease prevention for heart disease and stroke, but their effectiveness in treating diabetes has been uncertain partially due to poor patient compliance, lack of stress reduction strategies, poor diet and lack of persuasive health education on the risk of being...
Show moreThis research focuses on obesity and other major risk factors for chronic diseases such as Type II Diabetes Mellitus, Heart Disease, and Stroke. Worksite wellness programs have been successful in this realm of health promotion and disease prevention for heart disease and stroke, but their effectiveness in treating diabetes has been uncertain partially due to poor patient compliance, lack of stress reduction strategies, poor diet and lack of persuasive health education on the risk of being obese. Published peer-reviewed articles were reviewed, coded and analyzed to determine best practices, using a modified systematic review approach. The findings from these studies yield results that were used to develop a new employer-sponsored wellness program that is in accordance with the recently passed Affordable Care Act.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004201, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004201
Subject Headings
Behavior modification, Employee assistance programs, Health promotion, Medicine, Preventive, Non insulin dependent diabetes -- Prevention, obesity -- Risk factors, Preventive health services, Psychology, Industrial, Social responsibility of business, United States -- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Format
Document (PDF)
Nixon and the environment
Title
Nixon and the environment: clean air, automobiles and reelection.
Creator
Escobar, Erwin Mauricio., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description
the decades after World War II the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world. Yet, that prosperity and growth had a negative impact on the environmental quality of the nation. By the mid 1960s there was a rise in concern over environmental issues in the American public. Consequently, President Richard M. Nixon in his determination to give the American people what they sought decided to enact policies to bring the environmental crisis to an end. Among the environmental...
Show morethe decades after World War II the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world. Yet, that prosperity and growth had a negative impact on the environmental quality of the nation. By the mid 1960s there was a rise in concern over environmental issues in the American public. Consequently, President Richard M. Nixon in his determination to give the American people what they sought decided to enact policies to bring the environmental crisis to an end. Among the environmental policies of the Nixon Administration was the Clean Air Act of 1970, a highly controversial piece of legislation that placed tough regulations on the automobile industry. Due to the significant role of the auto industry in the American economy, and Nixon's concerns over reelection, there were two major shifts in business/government relations during this era. The first one was characterized by determination to protect the environment with little attention to complaints from the industry. The second one was about protecting the profitability of the industry while giving little attention to environmental problems.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3360764
Subject Headings
Political and social views, Presidents, Election, History, Air quality management, Government policy, Air, Pollution, Law and legislation, Automobile industry and trade, Environmental aspects, Transportation, Environmental aspects, Politics and government
Format
Document (PDF)