The role of CEO emotional stability and team heterogeneity in shaping the top management team affective tone and firm performance relationship

In this paper, we aim to bridge the micro-macro divide by addressing continued calls from strategic leadership and affect researchers to examine the black box to consider how CEO characteristics relate to top management team (TMT) affective experiences, and, in turn firm outcomes. We further consider the role of one key contextual factor in this relationship: TMT heterogeneity. We predict that CEO personality, specifically, emotional stability, is positively associated with TMT affective tone. Moreover, we posit that the relationship between TMT affective tone and firm performance depends on TMT task-related heterogeneity, such that positive affective tone benefits firm performance in heterogeneous TMTs, whereas negative affective tone benefits firm performance in homogeneous TMTs. Using a novel methodology that measures key psychological aspects of the CEO and TMT, we examined 50 TMTs from publicly-traded companies to test our predictions. Our findings offer theoretical contributions to the strategic leadership, affect and diversity literatures as well as managerial applications for CEO selection and management and managing diversity in upper echelons.     

Bad Days Don't End When the School Bell Rings: The Lingering Effects of Negative School Events on Children's Mood, Self-esteem, and Perceptions of Parent–Child Interaction

Each day for five days, 79 fifth‐grade children reported on events that occurred at school and they and their parents described their interactions with each other each evening. Consistent with previous research, it was found that on days when children reported more academic or peer problems during the day at school, they later described more aversive interactions with their parents. As hypothesized, increases in anxiety and drops in children's state self‐esteem partially mediated this link. However, parents did not report any differences in their interactions with the target child on days when the child experienced problems at school. This study suggests that negative events experienced by children while at school lead to short‐term changes in mood and self‐esteem, which influence their perceptions of subsequent interactions at home with parents.     

国际视野下的腐败治理

冷战结束后，随着全球化的深入发展，全球性问题日益增多，全球治理理论应运而生。跨国界的腐败问题成为国际视野中不容忽视的社会问题，是全球治理的重要目标。要彻底根除全球性的腐败问题，需要加强主权国家、联合国与非政府组织之间的通力合作。只有这样，才能实现对全球性腐败问题的有效善治。     

阿拉伯国家支持巴勒斯坦事业的双重性

基于阿拉伯民族主义共同利益，阿拉伯国家均支持巴勒斯坦人事业，这为巴勒斯坦人的长期斗争提供了可能。然而，在支持巴勒斯坦人的同时，阿拉伯各国又有着不同的利益考量，这对巴勒斯坦问题产生了一些消极影响。阿拉伯国家对巴勒斯坦问题的政策，在深层次上反映了阿拉伯民族主义和地方阿拉伯民族主义之间的关系，即阿拉伯民族主义往往是实现地方阿拉伯民族主义利益的一种工具或手段。     

美国“不承认主义”外交政策在中国的表现

“不承认主义”是美国数次对外使用的一项外交政策。它使用在两个方面 :一是对国际争端的态度 ;二是对他国政府的承认问题。通过考察美国“不承认主义”外交政策的在华表现 ,笔者认为 :一、美国“不承认主义”外交政策在华的首次使用是在第一次世界大战期间 ;二、“史汀生主义”不等同于“不承认主义” ,而只是随着国际社会的发展 ,增援了国际法新的内容的一次使用 ;三、美国不承认中华人民共和国是出于自己利益 ,而不是以美国学者标榜的标准 :即考察一政府是否是通过宪法途径夺取政权为出发点。     

A statistical procedure for representing state fragility and transition paths

State fragility is a concept that entered the political discourse in the last decades producing remarkable implications for aid allocation and international policies. The operationalization of this concept has generated a number of composite indices to produce rankings of fragile states. However, the temporal dimension of the driving forces leading to fragility has been rather neglected. This article discusses a statistical procedure that helps to represent the global fragility of a country and the path that a country has followed or will follow in the future when possibly entering into (or escaping from) a fragility condition. Specifically, multiple factor analysis is applied to depict vulnerable and weak countries, and to identify the fundamental forces that determine their overall fragility. Moreover, the trajectories of countries along the years are estimated using partial factor scores. Finally, the path of each country is predicted by means of parsimonious regression models, based on a reduced set of explanatory variables, and according to scenarios elaborated from available international outlooks.     

中西伦理传统与当代国际干涉

当代国际干涉涉及强国与弱国关系的伦理、民族间关系的伦理以及国际干涉的合法性或正义性标准。中国古代主流伦理只在前两个方面有相关的规范 ,那主要是华夏中央王国对周边蛮夷居高临下的“仁慈”。毛泽东一代中国共产党人坚执国家间、民族间一概平等 ,并奠定了以国家主权为核心理念、民族平等为重要内容的中国国际及民族伦理新传统 ,而邓小平掌舵以来国家主权至上和对国际干涉几无保留的否定更为突出。西方现代伦理传统当中虽有国家平等规范 ,但也有强国特权准则 ,并且直到近四、五十年前为止不包含民族普遍平等。关于国际干涉的合法性或正义性标准 ,与西方当今自由国际主义者大不相同 ,西方经典现实主义和经典自由主义者要么反对任何国际干涉 ,要么强调合理正当的干涉有其严格的先决条件。在民族自决权与国家主权的关系 (实为民族间关系问题的一部分 )上面 ,缺乏恰当的中西伦理传统 ,这要求我们创立一套包含五项标准的、均衡和实际的政治—伦理准则     

Should mothers work? Age and attitudes in Germany,Italy and Sweden

Welfare states are constructed around values and political and economic preferences, creating social relationships between the genders. As women increase their labour market participation, new patterns of conflict within families and around policies arise. In this article, attitudes towards family and gender relations among men and women in different age groups in Germany, Italy and Sweden are analysed. The findings show that national policies seem to influence the level of attitudes among men and women. Despite the differences between the countries, an overall pattern emerges in which both age and gender influence people's understanding of women's paid work within and between the three countries. Finally, some implications of changing attitudes on welfare state policies for gender equality are discussed.     

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The Political Role of Service Delivery in State‐Building: Exploring the Relevance of European History for Developing Countries

Concerns about failed and fragile states have put state‐ and nation‐building firmly on the academic and policy agenda, but the crucial role of public services in this process has remained underexplored. The 1960s and ‘70s generated a substantial set of literature that is largely missing from current writing. It identified state penetration, standardisation and accommodation as key processes in the state‐ and nation‐building sequence. This article analyses these three processes in Western Europe in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, and the role of public services therein, to explore how they may help us to understand the success and failure of state‐ and nation‐building in developing countries and fragile states.