Prior attempts at locating self-monitoring within general taxonomies of personality traits have largely proved unsuccessful. However, past research has typically neglected (a) the bidimensionality of the Self-Monitoring Scale and (b) the hierarchical nature of personality. The objective of this study was to test hypotheses that the two self-monitoring factors are located at the level of the met...

Studying functional traits and their relationships with tree growth has proved a powerful approach for understanding forest structure. These are often expected to follow the classical resource economics perspective, where acquisitive leaves combined roots enhance uptake growth. However, evidence coordinated leaf trait effects on is scarce it remains poorly understood how these together determin...

We conceptualize mergers as one of several strategies for creating value and study merger performance by evaluating the firms employing an acquisitive strategy. Relative to other firms, are valued lower, exhibit lower employee total factor productivity, innovate less. These effects concentrated among whose workforce is vulnerable acquisition-related personnel disruptions and/or those that more ...

The objective of this article is to identify the interpersonal factors that explain narratives of desistance among offenders who have been sentenced to prison. Through narrative interviews, we have studied a purposeful age-graded sample of men convicted of acquisitive crimes. Although the results confirm the leading research of Laub and Sampson (2003) about the importance of social bonds as a c...

Global plant trait studies have revealed fundamental trade-offs in plant resource economics. We evaluated such trait trade-offs during secondary succession in two species-rich tropical ecosystems that contrast in precipitation: dry deciduous and wet evergreen forests of Mexico. Species turnover with succession in dry forest largely relates to increasing water availability and in wet forest to d...

We measured community-level traits of vascular plants, lichens, and bryophytes in an alpine Dryas octopetala L. heath Finse, Norway, after nearly two decades experimental warming by open-top chambers. hypothesized that under (1) plant would shift from resource conservative towards more acquisitive, (2) lichen bryophyte to those associated with drier conditions, due increased evapotranspiration....