This study provides experimental evidence regarding the existence of order effects related to the presentation of positive and negative qualitative information in annual reports. Specifically, the effect of information order in the president’s letter is examined. The president’s letter in an annual report is an important vehicle for management to persuade investors that the company is a worthwh...

In recent years AAPM’s Presidents have selected a theme to emphasize during their term of office even as they continue to support the diverse range of activities conducted by this inclusive professional society. AAPM’s immediate Past President Bill McCarberg chose pain control in primary care based upon his decades of experience as a family medicine physician and pain specialist. His predecesso...

This paper reports the results of a study that attempts to assess the effects of decision making circumstances focusing mainly on the approaches applied and the managerial skills and capabilities the decision makers built on during concrete strategic decision making procedures. The study was conducted in California between September 2005 and June 2006 and it was sponsored by a Fulbright Researc...

Analyses of union leadership roles show that union presidents should have both a within-union focus and an external focus. The authors combined multi-level survey data from 3,871 union members in 248 local teachers' unions with archival and field staff data to examine relationships between leadership and members' perceptions of union instrumentality and justice, union commitment, and participat...

The Amazon is a complex object of policy that comprises environmental, economic, social, and sovereignty concerns. Despite this complexity, governments are often portrayed as having single understanding the region political problem. In article, we investigate how has been constructed problem in 6240 Brazilian presidential speeches since 1985 using supervised machine learning. Conceptually, deve...

Who sponsors the president's program when opposition controls House presents a puzzle because copartisan members arguably lack agenda-setting power and president cannot compel to consider legislation. Attracting their bills is one way presidents hope enact agendas in minority. Doing so allows share or take credit for program. New OMB data about presidents' programs (Kernell et al. 2019) open wi...

Abstract Despite theoretical arguments suggesting the strong effects of presidential term limits and re-election on democracy, there is surprisingly little empirical evidence to evaluate them. We test both effect democracy existence a consecutive rule reforms introducing it for incumbent presidents. Using from Latin American countries between 1945 2018, we their relationship vertical horizontal...