scholarly journals The relationship between CEO personal traits and technology companies’ performance at different stages of the life cycle

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-604
Author(s):  
Yuliya S. Ovanesova ◽  
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Segrey S. Zhitikhin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Firm Behavior ◽  
New Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Key Driver ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Overall Functioning

This article reviews how CEOs of technology companies can be successful for firm performance at different stages of the life cycle. The object of the research is the technology companies of the United States of America. Such companies are given special attention today as they represent a key driver of the new economy cycle. Importantly, organizations of the technology sector are largely dependent on the personalities of their CEOs, who determine the vector of development, main activities and overall functioning of the firms. The study analyzes the relationship between the traits of the company leader and firm behavior at different stages of the life cycle of 244 technology companies.

Sanabria, Tomás José (1922–2008)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviana D’Auria
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Civic Culture ◽  
World War ◽  
Environmental Features ◽  
Functionalist Approach ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Martin Wagner ◽  
Walter Gropius

Sanabria is a representative figure of the second generation of 20th-century Venezuelan architects. He studied in the United States of America after World War II and had a rigorous functionalist orientation, paying attention to natural conditions, environmental features, the relationship between architecture and geography, the influence of architecture in civic culture, structural and technological expressiveness, and the links between architecture, art, and the urban scale. After graduating as an engineer (1941–1945) from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), he embraced a functionalist approach during his studies (1945–1947) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Harvard Walter Gropius, Martin Wagner, Ieoh Ming Pei, Hugh Stubbins, and Marcel Breuer were among his professors. He returned to Venezuela in 1947 and worked as professor of Architecture for Engineers at the UCV’s School of Engineering. By 1948 he was director of the Department of Architectural Composition at the School of Architecture in the Faculty of Engineering. In 1954 he became the first director of the School of Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, founded that year.

scholarly journals Article processing charges, the geographic diversity of author communities, and barriers to publication for authors in the Global South

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Culver Smith ◽  
Leandra Merz ◽  
Jesse B. Borden ◽  
Chris Gulick ◽  
Akhil Ravindra Kshirsagar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global South ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Geographic Diversity ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Article Processing Charges ◽  
The Relationship

Many OA journals require authors pay an article processing charge (APC), which researchers in the Global South often cite as an insurmountable financial barrier. This has led to speculation that there will be lower representation of these authors in OA journals charging APCs. We used “mirror journals” – APC-charging OA versions of paywalled (PW) titles with whom they share editorial boards and standards for acceptance – to investigate the relationship between APCs and the geographic diversity of authors. Most of the >41,000 articles we reviewed were published in PW journals. Although lead authors were based in >140 countries, ~45% were based in either the United States of America (USA) or China. After correcting for differences in sample size, we found no difference between OA and PW journals in the number of countries in which lead authors were based. After correcting for the dominance of China and the USA, we found that author diversity in OA journals was significantly lower than in PW journals. Most OA articles were written by authors in high-income countries; no articles in OA journals had first authors from low-income countries. Our results suggest APCs are a barrier to OA publication for scientists from the Global South.

scholarly journals Understanding Happiness: A CAGE Policy Report

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hills ◽  
Gus O'Donnell ◽  
Andrew Oswald ◽  
Eugenio Proto ◽  
Daniel Sgroi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Human Happiness ◽  
War And Conflict ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Everyone wants to be happy. Over the ages, tracts of the ancient moral philosophers – Plato, Aristotle, Confucius – have probed the question of happiness. The stirring words in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence that established ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness’ as ‘unalienable Rights’ served as the inspiration that launched a nation, the United States of America. Yet, more than 240 years later, the relationship between government’s objectives and human happiness is not straightforward, even over the matters of whether it can and should be a government aim. We approach this question not as philosophers, but as social scientists seeking to understand happiness through data. Our work in these pages is intended to enhance understanding of how the well-being of individuals and societies is affected by myriad forces, among them: income, inflation, governance, genes, inflation, inequality, bereavement, biology, aspirations, unemployment, recession, economic growth, life expectancies, infant mortality, war and conflict, family and social networks, and mental and physical health and health care. Our report suggests the ways in which this information might be brought to bear to rethink traditional aims and definitions of socioeconomic progress, and to create a better – and, yes, happier – world. We explain what the data say to us: our times demand new approaches. Foreword by Richard Easterlin; Introduced by Diane Coyle.

Customer-Base Concentration, Profitability, and the Relationship Life Cycle

2015 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 883-906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Irvine ◽  
Shawn Saeyeul Park ◽  
Çelim Yıldızhan
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Fixed Costs ◽  
Customer Base ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Specific Investments ◽  
Key Driver ◽  
Operating Leverage ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT Using a recently expanded dataset on supplier-customer links, we introduce a dynamic relationship life-cycle hypothesis. We hypothesize that the relation between customer-base concentration and profitability is significantly negative in the early years of the relationship, but becomes positive as the relationship matures. The key driver of this dynamic is the customer-specific investments that the relationship entails. These investments result in larger fixed costs, greater operating leverage, and a higher probability of losses early in the relationship, but can significantly benefit the firm as the relationship matures. Although many of these money-losing firms in early-stage relationships were not studied in Patatoukas (2012), we find a market reaction to increases in customer concentration similar to that in his paper. This result provides powerful confirmatory evidence of the value of customer concentration. We document one of the intangible benefits of customer concentration, technology sharing, and show how this benefit increases as the relationship matures. JEL Classifications: L25; M41; G31; G33.

Iraq and the mutual accumulation strategy between the international and regional powers: The United States of America and Iran are a model

2020 ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Salah Mahdi Hadi ◽  
Noor Abdul-Ilah Ajrash
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Regional Powers ◽  
Hostage Crisis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Relationship

The rules of (mutual accumulation strategy) overshadow the history of the crisis relations between the United States of America and Iran four decades ago, and if we recall that, we will notice several collision joints between the two parties, starting with the hostage crisis of the American embassy in Iran from 4/11/1979 to 20 / 1/1981 AD, to the "Marines" attempt to storm this embassy in an operation called "Eagle Claw" on 4/24/1980 AD, to the tanker war in the eighties of the last century, to the exchange of downing drones in 2019, and finally what happened between the United States The United States and Iran from the moment targeting (Qassem Soleimani), commander of the "Quds Force" on 1/3/2020, until the Iranian missile response and targeting of the American forces in the two "Ain al-Assad" bases in Anbar province, and the "Harir" base in Arbil province on 1/8/ 2020 AD, all of this falls within the context of (mutual accumulation strategy) between the two parties, without going to a comprehensive confrontation through war or a knockout, because the logic of war or comprehensive confrontation is outside the political and military mindsets of the two parties, and the meaning of all of this is that turmoil forms the basis of the relationship between the states The The United States and Iran, because the turmoil and the limited clash with it through mutual strikes, do not necessarily lead to an open clash.

scholarly journals Turkey-US Relations in the Context of the Syrian Conflict: from Cooperation to Confrontation

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-96
Author(s):  
Nezir AKYEŞILMEN ◽  
Vanessa Tinker ◽  
Mohammed Ishmeal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Syrian Crisis ◽  
Syrian Conflict ◽  
The Relationship

Turkey and the United States of America have been strategic partners for over seven decades. Nevertheless, their relationship has not always been a smooth one, and the two countries have encountered temporary bilateral crises from time to time. In spite of the challenges, over the years, the NATO allies – the United States and Turkey have continued to reaffirm their commitment to cooperate with each other as “strategic partners.” However, the ensuing Syrian crisis has brought the relationship between the allies to an all-time historic low. This study examines Turkey-US relations in the context of the ongoing Syrian conflict using a conflict analysis framework. With this framework, we analyze the historical background, identify the root causes of the crisis and conduct an actor analysis. Based on our findings, we provide policy recommendations to de-escalate and transform the current crisis in US-Turkey relations in order to both restore their mutual trust and find new ways to cooperate as strategic partners.

scholarly journals The Quality of Practice Guidelines for Melanoma: A Methodologic Appraisal with the AGREE II and AGREE-REX Instruments

Cancers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1613
Author(s):  
Theresa Steeb ◽  
Anja Wessely ◽  
Konstantin Drexler ◽  
Martin Salzmann ◽  
Frédéric Toussaint ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States Of America ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Treatment Guideline ◽  
The United States ◽  
Agree Ii ◽  
Careful Revision ◽  
Melanoma Treatment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Spearman’S Correlation

Multiple guidelines on cutaneous melanoma (CM) are available from several consortia and countries. To provide up-to-date guidance in the rapidly changing field of melanoma treatment, guideline developers have to provide regular updates without compromises of quality. We performed a systematic search in guideline databases, Medline and Embase to identify guidelines on CM. The methodological quality of the identified guidelines was independently assessed by five reviewers using the instruments “Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation” (AGREE II) and “Recommendation EXcellence” (AGREE-REX). We performed descriptive analysis, explored subgroup differences using the Kruskal–Wallis (H) test and examined the relationship between distinct domains and items of the instruments with Spearman’s correlation. Six guidelines by consortia from Australia, France, Germany, Scotland, Spain and the United States of America were included. The German guideline fulfilled 71%–98% of criteria in AGREE II and 78%–96% for AGREE-REX, obtaining the highest scores. Deficiencies in the domains of “applicability” and “values and preferences” were observed in all guidelines. The German and Spanish guidelines significantly differed from each other in most of the domains. The domains “applicability” and “values and preferences” were identified as methodological weaknesses requiring careful revision and improvement in the future.

The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence of a Leader and Employee Motivation to Job Performance

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Acha ◽  
Kathleen M. Hargiss ◽  
Caroline Howard
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
High Sense

This quantitative study investigated the bond between a leader's emotional intelligence to employee motivation. The research was conducted at a federal government agency resided north bound of the United States of America. Participants consisted of 350 full time employees from various units of the organization. The leader's emotional intelligence was tested with Emotional Social Competence Inventory (ESCI) tool, whereas employees' motivation was verified with the Four Drive (4-D) instrument. The study depicted a link between a leader's emotions and employee interest to excel. Emotional aptitude scored high, which indicates that the leader's emotion affected employees' behavior. Employees likely to stay with the organization displayed strong organizational awareness with high sense of belonging. The different groups observed, revealed results with both positive and negative significant correlations (p < .05). The final outcome depicted that a leader's emotional intelligence influenced employees' motivation to excel. As the sample size was large some of the results were generalized.

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