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Discusses training success and describes the inquiry process that provides an opportunity for developing problem-solving skills by learning to structure problems through effective questioning. Considers beneficial outcomes, including gathering and organizing information as part of an active social process; and provides an example of the inquiry process. (LRW)

Building on Global Entrepreneurship Monitor research, this study examines the impact of specific norms supporting women's entrepreneurship on the relative rates of women to men engaged in entrepreneurship in different [...]

Using a combination of institutional, systems contingency and ecological theory, this paper argues and empirically demonstrates that key founding characteristics of international alliances are embedded (interactively related) in one another. Specifically, the technical area of the alliance activity, the intended direction of product/knowledge flows among sponsors, and the administrative form of the alliances are shown to be interactively related. Further, the concept of embeddedness was combined with Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and technological views to show two founding patterns. One pattern called Hybridization was consistent with technological explanations while the second called Dominance was suggested by TCE approaches. The new interactive relationships were identified in two large samples involving US, Japanese and European firms during a period from 1970 to 1989. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.), Introduction International alliances are an increasingly numerous, diverse, and important social and economic mechanism for international interfirm adaptation and cooperation (see reviews by Grandori and Soda 1995 and Hagedoorn 1993a). [...]

This study examines the relationships between levels of new business activity in the states of the U.S. and the high levels of unemployment arising from the Great Recession of 2007-2009. The findings indicate an interaction effect between prior levels of entrepreneurship and the effect of unemployment rates on contemporaneous entrepreneurship rates. Such an interaction effect is implied but not tested in prior research that support both a positive, necessity-based relationship between unemployment and entrepreneurship, and a negative, opportunity-based relationship. The results of this study qualify and quantify the interaction effect, indicating that states with higher levels of entrepreneurship prior to the Great Recession not only had higher levels coming out of it, but also showed levels of subsequent entrepreneurship that were more sensitive to relative rates of unemployment. These effects are also seen when controlling for other contextual variables, including the significant impact of economic freedom on entrepreneurship during the period of high unemployment associated with the recession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a combination of instutitional, systems contingency and ecological theory. this paper argues and empirically demonstrates that key founding characteristics of international alliances are embedded (interactively related) in one another. Specifically, the technical area of the alliance activity, the intended direction of product/knowledge flows among sponsors, and the administrative form of the alliances are shown to be interactively related. Further, the concept of embedded- ness was conibined with Transaction Cost Economics, (TCE) and technological views to show two founding patterns. One pattern called Hybridization was con sistent with technological explanations while the second called Dominance was suggested by TCE approaches. The new interactive relationships were identified in two large samples involving US. Japanese and European firms during a period from 1970 to 1989. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An abstract of the article "Entrepreneurship and Unemployment During the Great Recession" by C. Christopher Baughn, Jeffrey S. Sugheir, and Kent E. Neupert is presented.