for this state of affairs is that existing theories of work The authors express great appreciation to members of the consulting firm that helped us gain access to the organizations where this research was conducted; to Kenneth Brousseau, Daniel Feldman, and Linda Frank for assistance in data collection

Five studies tested two general hypotheses: Individuals differ in their use of emotion regulation strategies such as reappraisal and suppression, and these individual differences have implications for affect, well-being, and social relationships. Study 1 presents new measures of the habitual use

with an analysis of 243 firms over two years, using independently developed environmental ratings. Results indicate that "it pays to be green " and that this relationship strengthens with industry growth. We conclude by highlighting the study's academic and managerial implications, making special

This paper empirically analyzes a broad range of real exchange rate apprecia-tion episodes. The objective is twofold. First, the paper studies the dynamics of appreciations, using a sample that is not limited to cases that end in crisis (or devaluation). Second, the paper analyzes the mechanism

for this study. His leadership in this area significantly contributed to the gains, already made and yet to come, in understanding and treating mental disorders. Ill Foreword The 1990s bear witness to two opposing realities of mental illness. One is the pressing and even tragic nature of mental disorders

Political scientists often require a continuous conception of democracy to test hypotheses about the effects of political regime. Yet, the so-called continuous measures we use in large-n studies are either highly subjective (e.g., Freedom House), or not really continuous (as Gleditsch and Ward 1997

and structural properties of such sets of nodes. We define the network community profile plot, which characterizes the “best ” possible community—according to the conductance measure—over a wide range of size scales, and we study over 70 large sparse real-world networks taken from a wide range of application

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in technology, but also changes in user practices, regulation, industrial networks, infrastructure, and symbolic meaning or culture. This paper practices ‘appreciative theory ’ [R.R. Nelson, S.G. Winter, An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, Bellknap Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982] and brings together insights