How influential is the president’s advantage in cabinet formation in presidential systems? Do presidents receive more and the most important portfolios? What factors lead to a more or less disproportionate distributions of portfolios? In this study, I suggest answers for these questions through a theory in which the disproportional allocation of portfolios can be explained by the privileged pos...

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...

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...

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...

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 1967, Robert Bellah argued that America’s “founding myth”, what he called American civil religion, helps bind society together by providing its citizens with a sense of origin, direction, and meaning. For evidence, primarily turned to the inaugural speeches presidents. This paper draws on semantic network analysis empirically examine addresses Presidents Trump Biden, looking for evidence som...

To visualize the structure of Iranian chemistry scientific publications in SciSearch, 43 Iranian and International chemists were identified. They were the highly cited scientists in 7682 Iranian chemistry publications (defined as an article with at least one Iranian author address) indexed in Science Citation Index during the period from 1990 to 2006. Co-citation data for these authors from the...