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This study examined the impact of complementary top management teams (defined as functional experience differences between the acquiring and acquired firms) on post-acqusition performance. Based on a sample of 147 acqusitions between 1986-88, we find that complementary backgrounds have a positive impact on post-acquisition performance in both related and unrelated acqusitions. Another major finding is that complementarity is negatively related amongst top management team turnover of acquired managers. Finally, top management team turnover among acquired managers is negatively related to post-acquisition performance.

John, een Australische toerist, ontmoet Sabiha in een klein Tunesisch restaurant in Parijs. Zon prachtige, exotische vrouw heeft hij nog nooit gezien. Sabiha bespeurt onmiddellijk haar toekomst in Johns kalme grijze ogen. Hun huwelijk is goed maar blijft kinderloos. John wil terug naar Australië om een bestaan op te bouwen. Sabiha weigert. Zij kan pas mee als ze voorgoed afscheid heeft kunnen nemen van haar oude vader in Tunesië met man én tenminste één kind. Ten slotte wordt de impasse ondraaglijk. Sabiha besluit actie te nemen.

Autumn Laing has long outlived the legendary circle of artists she cultivated in the 1930s. Now ''old and skeleton gaunt'', she reflects on her tumultuous relationship with the abundantly talented Pat Donlon and the effect it had on her husband, on Pat''s wife and the body of work which launched Pat''s career. A brilliantly alive and insistently ene...

Every year a little fish likes to watch the salmon swim from his small pond up the mighty river, until one day he decides to take the journey to find out what is at the end of the river.

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study Philosophy. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibligraphies.com.

Amusement parks have been a staple of California recreation and entertainment for over a century. First appearing along the beaches and multiplying up and down the coast, these parks ignited an industry that has seen tremendous change and innovation. Children''s Fairyland--America''s first theme park--and Knott''s Berry Farm--the first children''s park--set high standards for the amusement world. When Disneyland opened in 1955, amusement parks became destinations in themselves, transforming surrounding communities. Discover how these magical places came to be. Learn little-known secrets of 20 California parks and what makes them landmarks. For guests of all ages, California''s theme parks offer an abundance of entertainment possibilities. 301 color photos provide a unique glimpse into an industry that forever changed family entertainment.

Seeking shelter in a Parisian cafe from a sudden rainstorm, John Patterner meets the exotic Sabiha and his carefully mapped life changes forever.

A profound and moving story about the land, the past, exile and acceptance, this deeply intelligent and thoughtful novel is a worthy successor to Miller''s much-loved and critically admired Journey to the Stone Country.

From the award-winning author of Conditions of Faith and Journey to the Stone Country, Alex Miller''s new novel reveals the inner life of an artist, torn between his obsession with his art and his love of his wife and daughter.

An extraordinarily compressed powerhouse of a novel, at once wholly original, gripping and mysterious. While The Tivington Nott is only Alex Miller''s second novel, it has all the hallmarks of this two-times Miles Franklin winner.

How does one explore the suburban home? Go in through the garage, of course. Sales, bands, suicides, and business startups: The suburban garage is the most culturally flexible space in the entire American domestic environment. In this flexibility, it stands opposed to many of the established notions of suburban domestic context. It is illustrative of the displayed, hidden, and forgotten wonders of the American home. Within the context of this thesis, established interpretations of the garage program are used in the form of metaphor and hyperbole to create differing typologies of the American home. The metaphors themselves have developed out of a very dense genealogy of American suburban histories and trajectories. They have a real history, just as they occupy a very real extant condition of the suburban context. The new suburban house typologies march toward the space of the surreal via the narratives that accompany each of them, allowing for an exploration into the existing domestic condition as well as a feverish and jocular critique of some of the norms of suburban life. The attempt of the research is to take on the exploration of American suburbia, using the very stereotypes and cliches that have come to define it.

This introduction provides a highly readable critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth-century and contemporary metaethics. It traces the development of contemporary debates in metaethics from their beginnings in the work of G. E. Moore up to the most recent arguments between naturalism and non-naturalism, cognitivism and non-cognitivism. A highly readable critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth century and contemporary metaethics. Asks: Are there moral facts? Is there such a thing as moral truth? Is moral knowledge possible? Traces the development of contemporary debates in metaethics from their beginnings in the work of G. E. Moore up to the most recent debates between naturalism and non-naturalism, cognitivism and noncognitivism. Provides for the first time a critical survey of famous figures in twentieth century metaethics such as Moore, Ayer and Mackie together with in-depth discussions of contemporary philosophers such as Blackburn, Gibbard, Wright, Harman, Railton, Sturgeon, McDowell and Wiggins.

A sensuously written, peculiarly Australian novel about the relationship between a painter and his subject. ''A narrow, vertical painting, tightly enclosing the scene. Her pale arm and her pale thigh. Viewed at a diagonal through an exceedingly tall doorway. just a glimpse of something.'' An ageing portrait artist meets a woman who unsettles him, yet inspires him to paint her. Reluctantly, at first, they are drawn together. The ambiguity of the relationship between painter and subject is revealed through Alex Miller''s subtle, sensuous narrative. The artist must watch and wait to trap the shy beast. For the skill of portraiture is in seeing beyond the face, beyond the likeness. ''Like Patrick White, Miller uses the painter to portray the ambivalence of art and the artist. In The Sitters is the brooding genius of light. Its presence is made manifest in Miller''s supple, painterly prose which layers words into textured moments.'' - The Sunday Age ''An awesomely elegant, subtly sensuous, stylish exploration of the inner self of an ageing portrait artist. If there were doubts about the maturity of Australian fiction, this book puts those doubts to rest.'' - Frank Moorhouse and Sue Woolfe, 1995 NSW Premier''s Awards ''The description of the creative process is extraordinary.'' - The Weekend Australian

Winner of the 2003 Miles Franklin Award. A superbly compelling work of betrayals, compassion, secrets and reconciliation.

Steven Muir, August Spiess and his daughter Gertrude, and Lang Tzu all acknowledge a restless sense of cultural displacement, an ambivalence in their relations with the culture of European Australia. Steven left England for Australia as a young man and his one attempt at returning is unsuccessful. August Spiess, although he speaks frequently of returning to his native Hamburg, fails to make the journey, as does his daughter Gertrude. Lang Tzu''s very name defines his fate: ''two characters which in Mandarin signify the son who goes away.'' The ''game'', however, does have winners. For despite their yearnings for the home of their ancestral dreams, a desire to belong somewhere that is truly their own, none of Miller''s characters leaves Australia, and each in their own way comes to see that to be at home in exile may be a defining paradox of the European Australian condition: the paradox of belonging and estrangement that perhaps lies uneasily at the heart of all European cultures. The Ancestor Game, which Robert Dessaix described as ''one of the most engrossing books I''ve read in a long time'', is an enthralling journey into the ancestral dreams and present dilemmas of a rich cast of characters. ''A wonderful novel of stunning intricacy and great beauty.'' - Michael Ondaatje ''Takes the historical novel to new frontiers. It is fabulous in every sense of the word.'' - Commonwealth Writers Prize judges ''Extraordinary fictional portraits of China and Australia.'' - New York Times Book Review ''A major new novel of grand design and rich texture, a vast canvas of time and space, its gaze outward yet its vision intimate and intellectually abundant.'' - The Age

An amazing book; a compulsively readable story composed by an award-winning author of brilliant, subtle, compassionate and intelligent language.

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