Small business owners: too busy to train?

Too Busy to Learn

The goal of this research is to analyze how individual learning interacts with an evolutionary algorithm in its search for best candidates for the Busy Beaver problem. To study this interaction two learning models, implemented as local search procedures, are proposed. Experimental results show that, in highly irregular and prone to premature convergence search spaces, local search methods are n...

Too busy to relax?

Today I am going to exercise. Finally! I plan to leave my offi ce early and go to the gym on my way home. I just need to complete a few telephone calls and I will be on my way. Suddenly, the emergency department calls. Mrs S. is back with congestive heart failure and will likely need admission. There goes my new resolution. By the time I leave the emergency department, it is time to go home, ha...

Are we too busy to be happy?

Small business owners' opinions about written health and safety information.

Owners of small manufacturing businesses from twelve industrial sectors (n=40) participated in focus groups. They most frequently read trade and local business publications; few regularly read or receive health and safety materials. They select business-related materials that are specific to their business, give them new ideas, or have information that is easy to use. Insurance companies and bu...

Determinants of Entrepreneurial Orientation of Rural Women Small Business Owners: The Case of Gambella Region of Ethiopia

Small business and entrepreneurship play critical role in stimulating economic activity, creating jobs, alleviating poverty and uplift living standards in Africa. It is widely accepted that the Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) sectors have the potential to provide a livelihood for a considerably large number of poor rural and urban women in Ethiopia. Women account for the larger share of the in...