1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910741186103321

Autore

Koralun-Bereznicka Julia

Titolo

Corporate performance : a ratio-based approach to country and industry analyses / / Julia Koralun-Bereznicka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

3-319-00345-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Contributions to management science

Disciplina

658.15

658.408

Soggetti

Corporations - Finance

Industrial management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Corporate performance interpretation and measuring problems -- Country and industry factors as determinants of corporate performance -- Analysis of the corporate performance diversity in the selected European Union countries -- Cross-industry and cross-country comparative cluster analysis -- Factors affecting corporate performance in countries and industries.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the comparative evaluation of international and industrial factors affecting the financial condition of enterprises. In the theoretical part, the results of previous research on the occurrence of the country and industry effect in the financial health of companies are reviewed. The aim of the empirical study is to determine such factors – national or industrial ones – that have a greater impact on the corporate performance in the selected European Union countries. Corporate performance is measured and described with the use of a large set of fundamental ratios. Corporate performance is therefore treated as a more complex matter influenced by such aspects as profitability, liquidity, working capital and solvency. The book especially analyses the importance of non-public companies of all sizes, which is also rare as current research focuses mainly on public companies due to the data constraints. .



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964004103321

Autore

Tjelle Kristin Fjelde

Titolo

Missionary Masculinity, 1870-1930 : The Norwegian Missionaries in South-East Africa / / by Kristin Fjelde Tjelle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013

ISBN

9781349463466

1349463469

9781137336361

1137336366

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History

Disciplina

266.02348100811

Soggetti

Africa-History

Europe-History

History, Modern

Civilization-History

Social history

African History

European History

Modern History

Cultural History

Social History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""1 Introduction: Missionaries and Masculinities""; ""The case and the context : Norwegian missionaries in south-east Africa                                                                             ""; ""Missions and gender                          ""; ""Masculinities and power                              ""; ""Masculinities and subjectivity                                     ""; ""Christian masculinity and modernity                                          ""

""Sources              """"Mission magazines                        ""; ""Mission literature                         ""; ""Unprinted sources                        "";



""Outline              ""; ""Part I The Construction of Norwegian Lutheran Missionary Masculinity                                                                           ""; ""2 Missionary Self-Making""; ""Introduction                   ""; ""The case of Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder                                               ""

""The self-making spirit of the Norwegian mission movement                                                               """"Subjective missionary self-making                                        ""; ""Self-making as a mission strategy and theory                                                   ""; ""Conclusion                 ""; ""3 Proper Missionary Masculinity""; ""Introduction                   ""; ""The case of Christian Oftebro                                    ""

""â€?By word or by plough?â€?: contested theories on mission                                                             """"The missionary caught between the spiritual and the secular                                                                  ""; ""Missionary masculinity: a paradox of modernity?                                                      ""; ""Conclusion                 ""; ""4 Confessional Missionary Masculinity""; ""Introduction                   ""

""The denominational context of a Norwegian Lutheran mission in south-east Africa                                                                                      """"Denominational disturbances                                  ""; ""A Scandinavian â€?free missionâ€? in Durban                                              ""; ""Denominational disturbances at home                                          ""

""â€?Heroic soldiersâ€? and â€?faithful sonsâ€?: re-confessionalisation and re-masculinisation in the NMS                                                                                                      ""

Sommario/riassunto

What kind of men were missionaries? What kind of masculinity did they represent, in ideology as well as in practice? Presupposing masculinity to be a cluster of cultural ideas and social practices that change over time and space, and not a stable entity with a natural, inherent meaning, Kristin Fjelde Tjelle seeks to answer such questions.