Based on Dutch archival records and primary and secondary sources in multiple languages, this study integrates indigenous peoples more fully in the Dutch Atlantic by examining Dutch-indigenous alliances in Brazil, the Gold Coast, West Central Africa, and New Netherland.

Cooperation and Conflict:: Dutch-Indigenous Relations in New Netherland, 1624–1664

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Group Problem Solving.

There are many variables that will be influencing stock return. Some of those variables are come from the commodity market, such as gold, price and crude oil price changes, and also come from the exchange rate market. This study is about to test the effect of changes prices of gold, silver, crude oil, and exchange rate to the stock return of mining sector companies in Indonesia. There are 48 companies engaged in the mining sector listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). From 48 companies this study uses the purposive sampling method to choose a sample within the criteria, and there are 13 selected companies that will be the object of this study. This study also used an analysis tool GARCH (1,1) to avoid abnormal data. Before advancing to GARCH (1,1) analysis, the data must be tested the stationary first by using the Augmented Dickey-Fuller Test (ADF) to make sure the data stationary or not by using level, 1st difference, and two difference. The result shows that gold has a significant positive effect on stock return mining sector companies such as INCO, KKGI, PTBA, and TINS. Silver has a significant positive effect on HRUM companies and negatively on RUIS. Crude oil has a significant positive effect on HRUM and PTBA firms. Exchange rates have a significant negative impact on companies. ANTM, CTTH, DOID, ELSA, HRUM, ITMG, and KKGI. JEL Classification : E03, F31, G11, G23 DOI : https://doi.org/10.26905/jkdp.v23i1.2084

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The Effect of Commodity Price Changes and USD/IDR Exchange Rate on Indonesian Mining Companies' Stock Return

It is very possible for an investor to take a decision based on superstitions and common beliefs. Actually, Indonesia has a specific calendar system called the Javanese lunar calendar. The Javanese calendar contains several special days because of their sacred characteristics such as “Kamis Wage” (Thursday Wage) and “Jum’at Kliwon” (Friday Kliwon). The day of Friday Kliwon is often considered to be the most frightening which is similar to Friday the Thirteenth in Western culture. This study tried to scrutinize the impact of those sacred days on Indonesian stock returns. By applying GARCH-M, the finding shows that the Javanese lunar calendar does not have any impact on the Indonesian stock returns, but does affect the investors’ risk aversion level. This study has proven that, in terms of risk aversion, investors’ behavior in Indonesia is influenced by superstition.

https://jurnal.ugm.ac.id/gamaijb/article/download/6906/6936

The Javanese Lunar Calendar’s Effect on Indonesian Stock Returns

This study aims to investigate the relationship between knowledge-based dynamic capability and organizational structure on team innovative performance in Brazilian industrial companies.,This study is based on data from a survey of 262 respondents from 65 companies in the Brazilian industrial sector with project teams and followed the partial least squares approach to model the structural equation that was used for data analysis.,The results of the study show that mechanical structures with a high degree of formalization and centralization have a negative impact on knowledge-based dynamic capability and integration has a positive relationship with dynamic capability. Moreover, the research shows that project team innovative performance is directly affected by knowledge generation and combination capability; however, knowledge acquisition/absorption does not interfere with project team innovative activity.,This study contributes to the managers of firms in the industrial sector by analyzing how the characteristics of organizational structure impact dynamic capability and project team innovative performance. The results of this study indicate that more mechanical structures have more difficulty in developing knowledge-based dynamic capability in the context of project teams.,This study advances the concept of knowledge-based dynamic capability from the firm level to the project team level. This study accesses a research gap that characterizes organizational structure as an antecedent of dynamic capability, analyzing the impact of organizational structure on the dimensions of dynamic capability and of the latter on project team innovative performance.

Innovative performance of project teams: the role of organizational structure and knowledge-based dynamic capability

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediator role that knowledge sharing plays between organisational culture, organisational structure, and technology infrastructure and process improvement in a knowledge management context in manufacturing enterprises operating in the food, beverage and textile industry.,An empirical study is conducted with a sample of 200 food, beverage and textile companies. Data are obtained by means of a survey questionnaire applied to general managers in each of the sample firms. The impact of the factors organisational culture, organisational structure and technology infrastructure on process improvement via knowledge sharing is assessed. Structural equation modelling and maximum likelihood estimation are applied to find the direction and strength of the relationships.,The main findings indicate the significant relationships between knowledge sharing and process improvement, between organisational culture and knowledge sharing, and between organisational structure and knowledge sharing. The relationship between technology infrastructure and knowledge sharing is found not to be significant.,The findings of the present study are limited to the food, beverage and textile industry. Future research could incorporate data from other manufacturing sectors or service companies.,This study provides practical guidance for general managers who wish to implement process improvement programmes.,Several authors have noted that there are few research studies concerning the interaction between each phase of knowledge management and total quality management practices. This study is interested in knowledge sharing and its impact on process improvement in a knowledge management context.

The impact of organisational culture, organisational structure and technological infrastructure on process improvement through knowledge sharing

An increasing amount of empirical research conducted at different times and in different geographical settings challenges the traditional assumption of the normal distribution of stock returns evident in the main body of financial theory. This article involved testing the normality assumption for the behavior of market returns in the main Latin American stock markets. Normality tests were applied to daily market returns for the period 2000 to 2007 for the main security markets of Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela. The normality hypothesis is rejected for all these markets. The article also involved testing the normality assumption for market returns over longer periods, considering specifically blocks of 5, 20, 60, and 120 consecutive market days between 2000 and 2007. In general, the behavior of the returns approaches a normal distribution as the length of time increases.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1481943_code1306681.pdf?abstractid=1481943&mirid=2

On the Normality of Stock Return Distributions: Latin American Markets, 2000-2007

Impact of incentive schemes and personality-tradeoffs on two-agent coopetition with numerical estimations

The goal of this research is to study the factors that determine the intention of unsecured personal debt with credit cards using the Ajzen Planned Behavior Theory model (1991). Using the data of 450 Ecuadorian professionals and a model of structural equations estimated by partial least squares, the attitudes, subjective norms and perceived control that guide people towards the intention of this debt were identified. The importance of this study is its contribution to understanding the factors that determine the intention of personal indebtedness in emerging economies, expanding the study population to the professional sector. The transversal study has a quantitative design and its purpose is explanatory correlative. The hypothesis evidence and the results show that the Ajzen Planned Behavior Theory model (1991) is a predictive model of the intention to borrow by credit card in Ecuadorian professionals. The proposed model contributes with new individual and contextual factors that demonstrate the particular importance of knowledge of credit cards (CONTC), lifestyle (ESTV) and past behaviour (CPAS) in predicting the intention of debt (INTEND). Furthermore, due to the cultural characteristics of each region of Ecuador, the results are compared between the cities: Guayaquil (Costa) and Quito (Sierra).

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Sergio J. Chión

Papers

The impact of organisational culture, organisational structure and technological infrastructure on process improvement through knowledge sharing

On the Normality of Stock Return Distributions: Latin American Markets, 2000-2007

Impact of incentive schemes and personality-tradeoffs on two-agent coopetition with numerical estimations

The Intention of Indebtedness with a Credit Card, an Application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour

On the Normality of Stock Return Distributions: Latin American Markets, 2000-2007