Economic liberalization and the antecedents of top management teams: evidence from Turkish 'big' business

There has been an increased interest in the last two decades in top management teams (TMTs) of business firms. Much of the research, however, has been US-based and concerned primarily with TMT effects on organizational outcomes. The present study aims to expand this literature by examining the antecedents of top team composition in the context of macro-level economic change in a late-industrializing country. The post-1980 trade and market reforms in Turkey provided the empirical setting. Drawing upon the literatures on TMT and chief executive characteristics together with punctuated equilibrium models of change and institutional theory, the article develops the argument that which firm-level factors affect which attributes of TMT formations varies across the early and late stages of economic liberalization. Results of the empirical investigation of 71 of the largest industrial firms in Turkey broadly supported the hypotheses derived from this premise. In the early stages of economic liberalization the average age and average organizational tenure of TMTs were related to the export orientation of firms, whereas in later stages, firm performance became a major predictor of these team attributes. Educational background characteristics of teams appeared to be under stronger institutional pressures, altering in different ways in the face of macro-level change

Colonization of wheat grain by Fusaria in two crop management systems varying in intensity of production technology.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of two cropping systems (intensive and integrated) on infection level of winter and spring wheat kernels by Fusarium species. Field experiments were conducted with winter wheat ‘Tonacja’ and spring wheat ‘Bombona’ during two consecutive growing seasons (2007/2008 and 2008/2009 - winter wheat, and 2008 and 2009 - spring wheat). A rainfall level in 2009 from the last decade of May to the first decade of July was 2.5-times higher than that in 2008. After the harvest, kernels were surface disinfected with 1.5% NaOCl solution for 2 min and then analysed for the infection level by different species of Fusarium. Fusaria were isolated on CZID medium and identified on the basis of macro - and micro-morphology on three media (PDA, SNA and a medium containing tannin). Our results demonstrate that the wheat grain infection by Fusarium depended mainly on a rainfall level. The intensive cropping system was more conducive to the grain infection by fusaria in comparison to the integrated one. The most frequent species were F. avenaceum in 2008, and F. graminearum, F. avenaceum and F. poae in 2009

Mathematical model of the double conductor power line using a modified Hamilton’s principle

In the paper a mathematical model of an electric power system is presented. The system consists of double-circuit power line (Lecher’s line with distributed parameters) and active-inductive load circuit. The model was formulated on the basis of the generalized interdisciplinary method using the modified Hamilton’s principle with extended Lagrange’s function. Numerical calculations based on the formulated model have been made and results of computer simulations as graphs are presented in the paper.W pracy, na podstawie uogólnionej interdyscyplinarnej metody wykorzystującej modyfikację zasady Hamiltona z uwzględnieniem rozszerzenia funkcji Lagrange’a sformułowano model matematyczny układu elektroenergetycznego, który składa się z dwuprzewodowej linii zasilania (linia Lechera o parametrach rozłożonych) i obciążenia o charakterze czynno-indukcyjnym. Na podstawie sformułowanego modelu przeprowadzono obliczenia numeryczne. Wyniki symulacji komputerowych przedstawiono w postaci graficznej