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This study investigates whether supplier firms' managerial ability affects their strategic decisions in supply chain management. Previous research documents that suppliers could collaborate with or be exploited by powerful major customers. I expect that suppliers with high-ability managers are perceived to be with more favorable future prospects to fulfill contractual obligations and thus possess stronger bargaining power. As a result, these suppliers could resist rent extraction from major customers and achieve supply chain collaboration, making it beneficial for them to operate with a concentrated customer base. Using a comprehensive sample of supply chain links, I hypothesize and find a positive association between managerial ability and customer concentration. I also find that suppliers with more able managers are more likely to continue their existing supply chain relationships. This paper extends the implications of managerial ability to the supply chain setting and adds to the understanding of collaboration/competition between suppliers and customers.

This study investigates analysts' attitudes toward the cooperation/conflict between hedge fund activists and target firm management by examining the impact of managerial ability on analyst recommendations around hedge fund activism. We find that analysts are more likely to reiterate recommendations and less likely to downgrade recommendations for target firms with high managerial skills following the arrival of hedge fund activists. This may be because analysts recognize advantages associated with target firm management's superior ability that enables managers to avoid costly fights with hedge fund activists. We also show that stronger managerial ability is associated with the higher analyst forecast accuracy during hedge fund intervention. Our results are robust to a cross-sectional analysis of recommendation changes after activists' takeover. Collectively, our evidence supports the positive impact of managerial ability on analysts' opinions within the context of hedge fund activist campaigns and sheds light on the information gathering and processing ability of financial analysts.

Exemplification studies usually examined the influence of media exemplars on people's perceptions of fictional or controversial issues, but neglected the circumstances when people have prior beliefs. The present research tested the effects of media exemplars on people's perceptions of Chengguan–vendor conflicts, a social issue with strong prior beliefs in China. The typical between-group exemplification effect was not evident; a relative, within-group exemplification effect was found; and a progressively decaying exemplification effect emerged. Yet, when evaluating belief/attitude formation and change beyond the media context, initial belief emerged as the most prominent and the only consistent predictor of subsequent perceptions.

General journalistic principles guide the ways that gatekeepers evaluate the newsworthiness of events. These principles are adapted in the field of international communication and indicate some unique features, in particular, of international disasters reporting. The current research examined the presence, amount, and length of news coverage from 3 major U.S. newspapers on 292 global natural disasters from 2004 to 2014. Results showed that U.S. newspapers had a reasonable neglect of international disasters compared with domestic ones and a disproportional favor toward huge versus smaller size disasters. A systematic predicting model was evident: Severity was the most significant and the only consistent determinant of disasters reports, followed by the intensity of deviance. Geographic distance and degree of relevance between countries failed to predict any variance of news coverage. This finding might demonstrate a return to the news value that the newsworthiness of an event should be based on the attributes of the event per se.

pt. ONEWinter Burrow --1.In the Beginning --2.A Three-Day Journey --3.The Importance of Sheep Manure --4.Winter Pasture --5.Our Underground Home --6.Winter Slaughter --7.The Only Water --8.Cold --9.The Sheep's Winter --pt. TWOMasters of the Wilds --10.Kama Suluv --11.Cuma --12.Sister-in-law --13.The Neighbors --14.Plum Blossom and Panda Dog --15.Everyone --16.Walking in the Wilderness --17.Isolation --18.The Only Television --19.Rahmethan and Nursilash --20.Kurmash --21.Zhada --pt. THREESerenity --22.Twilight --23.The Cattle's Winter --24.Food --25.Visitors (1) --26.Visitors (2) --27.Peace --28.The Final Peace --pt. FOURLast Things --29.Year of the Blizzard --30.What I'm Experiencing --31.Everything Disappears Quickly --32.Herding Together --33.Visiting Neighbors --34.New Neighbors --35.The Way Home.

AbstractThe approach of combining diverse policy instruments is increasingly being applied to address complex environmental and sustainability issues. For such an approach of policy mix to be effective, broader contextual and process factors must be taken into account. In this paper, we identify interdepartmental cooperation within the government as a condition for an effective policy mix, especially for China. Taking domestic waste governance as a case study, we collect policy document data from 32 cities across China in the last decade and verify the influential mechanism between the interdepartmental cooperation network and the policy mix through quantitative methods of social network analysis and regression. The empirical results show that the Chinese government has intensified interdepartmental cooperation over the past decade in the area of domestic waste governance, which has facilitated the increased adoption of policy mixes. In addition, a shift in the policy strategy and policy direction of the Chinese government for domestic waste governance can be traced from the changes in the specific departments involved in the cooperation network.