Mississippi State University

About: Mississippi State University is a education organization based out in Starkville, Mississippi, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Catfish. The organization has 14115 authors who have published 28594 publications receiving 700030 citations. The organization is also known as: The Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science & Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science.

25 Years of Family Business Review: Reflections on the Past and Perspectives for the Future

Abstract: Since its launch in 1988, the Family Business Review (FBR) has played an integral role in the establishment and development of the field of family business studies. This field is distinguished from its sister disciplines by its singular focus on the paradoxes caused by the involvement of family in business. Today, scholars worldwide recognize both the ubiquity of family enterprises and the complexity of issues faced by these enterprises. However, this has not always been the case. While the field has made impressive progress in terms of the 3Rs of research— Relevance, Reach, and Rigor—much exciting work remains to be done. This introduction to the special issue celebrating the 25th anniversary of FBR discusses the progress the field and the journal have made in the past quarter century and some of the challenges that are waiting for resolution in the future. Family firms represent the predominant form of business organization in the world (LaPorta, Lopez-de-Silanes, & Shleifer, 1999). These heterogeneous and complex enterprises offer a challenging array of issues to study and are beginning to receive substantial scholarly attention. For the past 25 years, FBR has been a catalyst in establishing family business studies as a legitimate field of investigation—a mission defined by its founding editor Ivan Lansberg in its first issue (Lansberg & Gersick, 1993). FBR is currently supported by approximately 200 scholars who are serving as its editors, advisory and review board members, and ad hoc reviewers. With an impact factor of 2.426, it ranks among the top 20 journals in the business category of the Social Science Citation Index. More than 200 submissions from around the world compete for approximately 20 article slots in FBR annually. No wonder there is a “collective sense that significant progress has been made” (Litz, Pearson, & Litchfield, 2012) and that scholars are “united in their appreciation of what has been achieved to date” (Craig & Salvato, 2012). While family enterprise research is moving forward and gaining momentum today, such was not always the case. In this introduction to the special issue celebrating the 25th anniversary of FBR, we pay tribute to the visionaries who laid the foundation for the field of family business studies and contributed substantially to the consulting profession devoted to these enterprises. To accomplish this purpose we provide a brief history of FBR and the owner of the journal, the Family Firm Institute (FFI), followed by observations on the field’s domain and notable developments regarding the progression of family business studies in terms of three 3Rs of research: relevance, reach, and rigor (cf. Sharma, 2010a). Our aim is to provide an overview of the major developments in the past two and half decades, while offering some suggestions on how the future aspirations of the journal and its stakeholders might be achieved. This introductory article draws heavily from three sources: (a) our own experiences as consumers and producers of knowledge related to family enterprises, (b) previous editorials and review articles published in FBR and other venues (e.g., Bird, Welsch, Astrachan, & Pistrui,

A revised branch current-based distribution system state estimation algorithm and meter placement impact

Abstract: With the development of automation in distribution systems, distribution supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and many automated meter reading (AMR) systems have been installed on distribution systems. Also distribution management system (DMS) have advanced and include more sophisticated analysis tools. The combination of these developments is providing a platform for development of distribution system state estimation (DSE). A branch-current-based three-phase state estimation algorithm for distribution systems has been developed and tested. This method chooses the magnitude and phase angle of the branch current as the state variables. Because of the limited number of real-time measurements in the distribution system, the state estimator can not acquire enough real-time measurements for convergence, so pseudo-measurements are necessary for distribution system state estimator. The load estimated at every node from the AMR systems is used as a pseudo-measurement for the state estimator. The algorithm has been tested on three IEEE radial test feeders. In addition to this new strategy for DSE, another issue is meter-placement. This topic includes the type of measurement as well as the location of the measurement. Our results show the impact of these two issues on accuracy. Several general meter rules based on this analysis are outlined.

Family Business Research in the New Millennium An Overview of the Who, the Where, the What, and the Why

Abstract: The authors' analysis of 291 family business articles published in 30 management journals between 2001 and 2007 reports the contributions of individual scholars and academic institutions to family business research. To better understand the interrelationships among scholars who have contributed to family business research, a network analysis of coauthor relationships was conducted. The authors also provide a content analysis of the articles and offer suggestions for future research. By analyzing the who, where, and what of family business research, the reasons why the developmental trends have occurred and how the field's momentum can be maintained and directed toward productive ends become clearer.

Industrial age anthropogenic inputs of heavy metals into the pedosphere

Abstract: Heavy metals have been increasingly released into our environment. We present here, for the first time, the global industrial age production of Cd, Cu, Cr, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn, and their potential accumulation and environmental effects in the pedosphere. World soils have been seriously polluted by Pb and Cd and slightly by Zn. The potential industrial age anthropogenic Pb, Hg, and Cd inputs in the pedosphere are 9.6, 6.1, and 5.2 times those in the lithosphere, respectively. The potential anthropogenic heavy metal inputs in the pedosphere increased tremendously after the 1950s, especially for Cr and Ni. In 2000, the cumulative industrial age anthropogenic global production of Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn was 1.1, 105, 451, 0.64, 36, 235, and 354 million tonnes, respectively. The global industrial age metal burdens per capita (in 2000) were 0.18, 17.3, 74.2, 0.10, 5.9, 38.6, and 58.2 kg for Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn, respectively. Acidification may increase the bioavailability and toxicity of heavy metals in the pedosphere. The improvement of industrial processing technology reducing the metal dispersion rate, the recycling of metal-containing outdated products, by-products and wastes, and the development of new substitute materials for heavy metals are possible strategies to minimize the effects of heavy metals on our environment.