Red pine cone and barks combined with red pine wood particles in various proportions were used as the raw materials for one and three layered experimental particleboard manufacturing in laboratory conditions. The pine cones and barks have higher lignin, but lower holocellulose content compare to wood. For bark-based panels, the highest MOR (2.52 MPa) corresponded to the lowest thickness swellin...

Boards of large corporations sharing some of their directors are connected in complex networks. Boards are responsible for corporations’ long-term strategy and are often involved in decisions about a common topic related to the belief in economical growth or recession. We are interested in understanding under which conditions a large majority of boards making a same decision can emerge in the n...

Boards of large corporations sharing some of their directors are connected in complex networks. Boards are responsible for corporations’ long-term strategy and are often involved in decisions about a common topic related to the belief in economical growth or recession. We are interested in understanding under which conditions a large majority of boards making a same decision can emerge in the n...

In this paper, I analyze how the influence of executives affects the compensation decisions of boards of directors. Boards vary in their degree of independence, and compensation decisions not only serve to motivate executives and allocate rents, but also affect a board’s reputation for independence. Although greater managerial influence over the board has the obvious effect of increasing the le...

BACKGROUND Although previous research suggests that different kinds of patient feedback are used in different ways to help improve the quality of hospital care, there have been no studies of the ways in which hospital boards of directors use feedback for this purpose. OBJECTIVES To examine whether and how boards of directors of hospitals use feedback from patients to formulate strategy and to...