Ownership

Author : Aaron Perzanowski,Jason Schultz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780262535243

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The End of Ownership by Aaron Perzanowski,Jason Schultz Pdf

An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we “buy” in the digital marketplace. If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the ebooks or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don't own those purchases, you merely license them. That means your ebook vendor can delete the book from your device without warning or explanation—as Amazon deleted Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of surprised readers several years ago. These readers thought they owned their copies of 1984. Until, it turned out, they didn't. In The End of Ownership, Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz explore how notions of ownership have shifted in the digital marketplace, and make an argument for the benefits of personal property. Of course, ebooks, cloud storage, streaming, and other digital goods offer users convenience and flexibility. But, Perzanowski and Schultz warn, consumers should be aware of the tradeoffs involving user constraints, permanence, and privacy. The rights of private property are clear, but few people manage to read their end user agreements. Perzanowski and Schultz argue that introducing aspects of private property and ownership into the digital marketplace would offer both legal and economic benefits. But, most important, it would affirm our sense of self-direction and autonomy. If we own our purchases, we are free to make whatever lawful use of them we please. Technology need not constrain our freedom; it can also empower us.

Author : David Pearson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198870128

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Book Ownership in Stuart England by David Pearson Pdf

This volume examines private libraries and book ownership in seventeenth-century England, with particular focus on how libraries developed over this period and the social impact that they had.

Author : Jocko Willink,Leif Babin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781250184726

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Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink,Leif Babin Pdf

An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life. Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, they learned that leadership—at every level—is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails. Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training that helped forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After departing the SEAL Teams, they launched Echelon Front, a company that teaches these same leadership principles to businesses and organizations. From promising startups to Fortune 500 companies, Babin and Willink have helped scores of clients across a broad range of industries build their own high-performance teams and dominate their battlefields. Now, detailing the mind-set and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult missions in combat, Extreme Ownership shows how to apply them to any team, family or organization. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic such as Cover and Move, Decentralized Command, and Leading Up the Chain, explaining what they are, why they are important, and how to implement them in any leadership environment. A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, Extreme Ownership revolutionizes business management and challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win.

Author : Rick Lasky
Publisher : PennWell Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781593700782

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Pride & Ownership by Rick Lasky Pdf

This book serves as a guide for the seasoned veteran, the new firefighter and everyone in between, bringing them together for what it all takes to have that love for the job. Each chapter addresses the next step in the leadership chain that is necessary for a fire service professional to succeed. The chapters are as follows: Our Mission; The Firefighter; The Company Officer; The Chief; Our Two Families; Sweating the Small Stuff; Changing Shirts-The Promotion; What September 11th Did For Us-The Good and the Bad; Ceremonies; Marketing Your Fire Department; Making It All Happen-Embracing Success; Have You Forgotten.

Author : Randall K. Morck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226536828

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Concentrated Corporate Ownership by Randall K. Morck Pdf

Standard economic models assume that many small investors own firms. This is so in most large U.S. firms, but wealthy individuals or families generally hold controlling blocks in smaller U.S. firms and in all firms in most other countries. Given this, the lack of theoretical and empirical work on tightly held firms is surprising. What corporate governance problems arise in tightly held firms? How do these differ from corporate governance problems in widely held firms? How do control blocks arise and how are they maintained? How does concentrated ownership affect economic growth? How should we regulate tightly held firms? Drawing together leading scholars from law, economics, and finance, this volume examines the economic and legal issues of concentrated ownership and their impact on a shifting global economy.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Communication and traffic
ISBN : MINN:31951D03670624H

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Media Ownership by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Pdf

Author : Kerstin Groß
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790819342

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Equity Ownership and Performance by Kerstin Groß Pdf

The empirical studies presented in this book model the endogeneity by applying the simultaneous equations methodology on the relation of ownership and financial performance as well as on different ownership dimensions themselves. Its final model comprises a four equations system containing performance, general ownership concentration, managerial and institutional ownership.

Author : University of Michigan. Survey Research Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Employee ownership
ISBN : PSU:000063909678

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Employee Ownership by University of Michigan. Survey Research Center Pdf

Author : Maria Relaki,Despina Catapoti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135050443

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An Archaeology of Land Ownership by Maria Relaki,Despina Catapoti Pdf

Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. A host of studies has argued about land ownership on the basis of the simple co-existence of artefacts on the landscape; other studies have tended to extrapolate land ownership from more indirect means. Particularly noteworthy is the tendency to portray land ownership as the driving force behind the emergence of social complexity, a primordial ingredient in the processes that led to the political and economic expansion of prehistoric societies. The association between people and land in all of these interpretive schemata is however less easy to detect analytically. Although various rubrics have been employed to identify such a connection – most notable among them the concepts of ‘cultures,’ ‘regions,’ or even ‘households’ – they take the links between land and people as a given and not as something that needs to be conceptually defined and empirically substantiated. An Archaeology of Land Ownership demonstrates that the relationship between people and land in the past is first and foremost an analytical issue, and one that calls for clarification not only at the level of definition, but also methodological applicability. Bringing together an international roster of specialists, the essays in this volume call attention to the processes by which links to land are established, the various forms that such links take and how they can change through time, as well as their importance in helping to forge or dilute an understanding of community at various circumstances.

Author : Michael J. Rubach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136535192

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The Changing Face of Corporate Ownership by Michael J. Rubach Pdf

This book examines the shareholder activism of institutional investors, and the effect of this activism on portfolio performance. By focusing on 118 institutional investors headquartered in the United States, the book is unique in addressing the shareholder activism of a large sample. Institutional shareholder activism is defined to include both traditional mechanisms of influence (i.e. filing shareholder proposals) and relationship investing. Institutional owners included private and public pension funds, mutual funds, bank trusts, insurance companies, endowments, and foundations. These institutional owners differ substantially, and these differences lead institutions to use their ownership power to pursue different philosophies and actions. Some institutions follow a passive governance policy, While others adopt an activist role. This book seeks to answer four questions: (1) Are institutional owners actively involved in the strategic affairs of companies in their portfolios? (2)Which forms of activism do institutional owners employ (either confrontational mechanisms, such as filing shareholder proposals, or relationship building mechanisms)? (3)Which forms of activism employed are most effective? and (4) Does the institutional type affect its pursuit of shareholder activism? In answering these questions the author suggests new important results that in many cases are contrary to what prior reports of the activities by a small number of institutional owners may intimate.

Author : Joann Peck,Suzanne B. Shu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319771588

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Psychological Ownership and Consumer Behavior by Joann Peck,Suzanne B. Shu Pdf

This pathbreaking volume expands on the construct of psychological ownership, placing it in the contexts of both individual consumer behavior and the wider decision-making of consumer populations. An individual’s feeling of ownership toward a target represents the perception that something is “mine!”, and is highly relevant to buying and relating to specific goods, economic and health decision-making and, especially salient given today’s privacy concerns, psychological ownership of digital content and personal data. Experts analyze the social conditions and cognitive processes concerning shared consumer experiences and psychological ownership. Contributors also discuss possibilities for socially responsible forms of psychological ownership using examples from environmental causes, and the behavioral mechanisms involved when psychological ownership becomes problematic, as in cases of hoarding. Included among the topics: Evidence from young children suggesting that even legal ownership is fundamentally psychological. Ownership, the extended self, and the extended object. Psychological ownership in financial decisions. The intersection of ownership and design. Can consumers perceive collective psychological ownership of an organization? Whose experience is it, anyway? Psychological ownership and enjoyment of shared experiences. Psychological ownership as a facilitator of sustainable behaviors including stewardship. Future research avenues in psychological ownership. Psychological Ownership and Consumer Behavior pinpoints research topics and real-world issues that will define the field in the coming years. It will be especially useful in graduate classes in marketing, consumer behavior, policy interventions, and business psychology.

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473399099

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The Beginning of Ownership by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

Originally published in 1899, this is a work by Thorstein Veblen, an American economist and sociologist. It is an article written for the American Journal of Sociology publication outlining some of his economic theories. We are republishing this work with a brand new introductory biography of the author with the aim of placing it in the context of his other writings and achievements.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Employee ownership
ISBN : UCR:31210023332941

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Employees Stock Ownership Plans by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045470858

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Physician Ownership in Pharmacies and Drug Companies by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Railroads
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU09382372

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Return of the Railroads to Private Ownership by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf