Acting as an EU member state and implementing new developments in the administrative system have also set great expectations and demands to the management of Estonian public service. In 2004 Estonian Senior Civil Servants Competency Framework was created to be used in the leadership development and succession planning of top managers. The main aim of this paper is to analyze, based on the empir...

Studies in vision have demonstrated that the visual system can induce the perception of illusory contours. In this study we document a similar phenomenon in the auditory mode: Japanese speakers report perceiving vowels that are absent in the acoustic signal. Such an illusion is due to the fact that in Japanese, succession of consonants are not allowed. Hence the linguistic system inserts an ill...

Countering the widely-held view that CEO succession is generally beneficial in turnaround situations, we adopt an executive fit/refit logic, proposing that the implications of CEO replacement depend integrally on the incumbent’s degree of misfit and the successor’s degree of fit to the contextual conditions at hand. Drawing from prior turnarounds research, we identify several prominent forms of...

This article investigates the implications of string theory for the conception of scientific theory confirmation. The classical understanding of theory confirmation is based on the assumption that scientific theory building is underdetermined by the available empirical data. Several arguments are presented, which suggest a devaluation of this ‘principle of scientific underdetermination’ in the ...

Compared to the gambler’s fallacy in which one makes predictions negatively dependent on the past information, in the hot hand belief, one makes predictions positively dependent on the past information. Both phenomena have been attributed to people’s misperception of randomness. The present study examines an alternative explanation that the positive dependency in the hot hand belief may be due ...

Using a sand dune chronosequence that spans 485 years of primary succession, we collected nearest-neighbor vegetation data to test two predictions associated with the traditional "size-advantage" hypothesis for plant competitive ability: (1) the relative representation of larger species should increase in later stages of succession; and (2) resident species that are near neighbors should, over ...

Perturbations to the colonization process of the human gastrointestinal tract have been suggested to result in adverse health effects later in life. Although much research has been performed on bacterial colonization and succession, much less is known about the other two domains of life, archaea, and eukaryotes. Here we describe colonization and succession by bacteria, archaea and microeukaryot...

Related acquisition involves the purchase and consolidation of firms in the same or related product markets (Ansoff and Weston, 1962; Chatterjee, 1992; Datta, 1991; Datta and Grant, 1990; Harrison et al., 1991). Research has shown that about half of related acquisition activities fail to achieve expected economic and synergistic benefits (Fairburn and Geroski, 1989). Such failures have been att...

In their recent review of arrested succession, Royo and Carson (A.A. Royo and W.P. Carson. 2006. Can. J. For. Res. 36: 1345–1362) demonstrate that ‘‘recalcitrant understory layers’’ are widespread and pervasive modifiers of ecosystems and disruptors of forest regeneration. They rightly point out that many plant species associated with arrested succession are characterized by rapid vegetative sp...