Organizational structure is experiencing an increase in the use of small groups and teams as solutions to strategic concerns. The issue of succession planning within a group or organization is vital to a successful strategy. In addition, servant leadership is experiencing a resurgence of interest in organizations and in leadership research. However, servant leadership in the succession process ...

background: mastalgia is a common problem among women. severe mastalgia can have a negative impact on sexual, physical and sleep activities and behaviors. regarding the absence of a study on the prevalence and severity of mastalgia in southern iran, the current study was conducted.   methods: this is an analytical cross-sectional study. the participants were women who referred to health centers...

(Short-term successional dynamics of a macroalgal community in a stream from northwestern São Paulo State, Brazil). This investigation aimed to describe a short term (70 days) ecological succession event of a macroalgal community in a stream from northwestern São Paulo state (20o43’S; 49o13’W) after artificial disturbance (removal); evaluate if community structure characteristics were similar b...

Succession in standardization is usually a problem. The advantages of improvements are weighed against those of compatibility. If compatibility considerations dominate, a grafting process takes place. This process need not lead to compatibility. According to our taxonomy of successor standards, there are three types of succession (outcomes). Type I, where grafting is achieved, entails compatibi...

Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries with large unregulated or “informal” sectors. It generates three stylized facts that are critical to the accurate modeling of the sector and which suggest the need to rethink the approaches to date. First,...

The light-induced increases of the effective fluorescence yield in Chlorella are too slow to be primary processes in photosynthesis. The fast transient state (risetime 25 nsec, limited to the first flash) is attributed to a priming reaction for the photosystem that makes oxygen. The slower cyclical process (risetime 3 musec, decay time 200 musec and 2 msec) is attributed to the dark reactions t...

Over the years, many researchers have proposed theoretical models of problem-solving. These models work a problem in a sequential and rational manner. Through our professional experience and an action research study, we discovered fundamental differences between what these models describe and what actually happens when problems are solved in a real-world setting. Assisting with a process improv...

In the last few decades, we have developed a substantial body of knowledge about CEO succession. However, except for some studies of family businesses that lack direct applicability to nonfamily CEO succession, the past studies of succession have not examined the very first succession event in a firm, when the Founder-CEO is replaced, on a largescale basis. The critical differences between late...