Market Reaction to Rights Issue

Could not find too many articles on this topic, although the one below has a fairly extensive bibliography, which may yield some other ideas. You may need to start ( as I did ) with a clear idea of what a "rights issue" means, and think about how this may affect share values.


Announcement Effect of Rights Issue...
This paper examines ordinary share price abnormal returns reaction to announcements of rights issues in the Indian Stock Market. This paper also examines Information hypothesis, Price pressure hy...By: Malhotra, Madhuri; Thenmozhi, M.; Kumar, G. Arun. Journal of Services Research, Apr2007, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p215-231

Whistleblowers - public services or traitors ?

Those of you who are doing this topic are looking at the motivation of whistleblowers, and whose interest they might be acting in. I think it would be reasonable to consider the difference between a whistleblower in the social services and one in a corporation. The books which you can find on the library catalogue should be a useful starting point.

Credo Reference Database mentions, in one of it's may definitions of the word, the Public Disclosure Act (1998). This has been called the 'Whistleblower's Charter'.

We did not look at Acts of Parliament during our sessions, but they are easy to find using this site :

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts

On a similar theme the UK Parliament site could also be potentially useful. You would be able to identify occasions upon which the subject has been discussed in Hansard ( the written record of Parliament )

www.parliament.uk

This site will normally provide quite a lot of information, and will usually look impressive in a bibliography.

Is there a glass ceiling for women ?

For those of you doing this topic don't forget that books in the LRC should provide useful historical background material...

As this topic has quite a sociological slant you might also consider using the Sage Premier database. Credo Reference is very good for definitions of this term ( I like the one from the Gale World of Sociology ).

During the sessions we mainly looked at full-text databases, but I think that some UK material will be found if you look at British Humanities Index and

ASSIA ( Applied Social Sciences Index)

Global Economic Statistics

Several Applied Management topics involve statistics on the current economic situation with regard to a particular country. Some general statistics which might be relevant can be found in the Europa World Yearbook. This is a two volume work availabe in the reference section of the LRC.

Each country has a detailed entry on economic affairs. It's a useful digest of the current situation.

eg " By 2007 it was estimated that Nigeria's external debt had been reduced to just 3% of GDP"

( Europa World Year Book 2008, p.3409 )

Referencing

Although the hand-in date is not until September 2009, it's not to early to start thinking about Referencing. I would encourage you to keep a note of all the sources which you have used. There is nothing more frustrating than trying to find the source an article which you have used later on.

In addition to the guidelines in your module handbook I would draw your attention to the Learning Resources Guidelines :

http://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/help/guide-to-ref

For detailed information, not included in either of these sources, the best guide available is probably 'Cite them Right'. It's easy to read and very comprehensive. There are plenty of copies available in the LRC.

You can always approach us personally for further advice.

Introduction to the blog

Having seen a very keen set of new AMP students in June 2009 I thought it might be an idea to put together a blog bringing together some of the sources we discussed.

I'll try to update the sources as often as possible, and apply labels to each post which will enable you to identify your particular topic.

These are just suggestions about what material you might find, so please don't treat them as exhaustive.

There will also be some hints and tips on general issues such as referencing.