Lack of network transparency limits entrepreneurs’ effective utilization their networks for resource acquisition. Virtual platforms (e.g., SNS-Social Networking Sites) have the potential to leverage entrepreneurial networks. The purpose this study is understand why and how technology-based entrepreneurs use social media effectively access resources and, in turn, shed light on they overcome earl...

Entrepreneurs’ use of linguistic practices, such as storytelling, in building legitimacy with customers and others is well documented. Yet, not all entrepreneurs may equally or benefit from practices their legitimacy-building efforts. For those stigmatized social identities, like disability, embodied properties non-linguistic, more visual kind, be salient despite being under-explored the entrep...

INTRODUCTION The World Health Organization now recommends antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation for all HIV-infected individuals regardless of CD4 cell count or disease status. Understanding the facilitators and barriers to initiation of and adherence to ART is essential to successful scale-up of "universal" ART. METHODS To investigate facilitators and barriers to ART initiation, we conduct...

E-businesses play a critical role in today's knowledge-based economies. Despite their ‎increasing portion, e-businesses experience high rates of failure. Therefore, it is of prime ‎importance to identify their decision-making activities encountering outer competitive forces ‎and their internal structural events. In this study, through using the Grounded Theory approach, we ‎analyze interviews c...

Although Ernst Mach is widely recognized in psychology for his discovery of the effects of lateral inhibition in the retina ("Mach Bands"), his contributions to the theory of depth perception are not as well known. Mach proposed that steady luminance gradients triggered sensations of depth. He also expanded on Ewald Hering's hypothesis of "monocular depth sensations," arguing that they were sub...

the ability to develop and maintain an effective network is one of the entrepreneurial competencies. despite recognition of the value of networking, there has been little research into the networks of female entrepreneurs. current evidences indicate the differences between men and women’s networking and in part, women’s weakness to creat and maintain entrepreneurial networking compared to that ...

INTRODUCTION For HIV serodiscordant couples in resource-limited settings, pregnancy is common despite the risk of sexual and/or perinatal HIV transmission. Some safer conception strategies to reduce HIV transmission during pregnancy attempts are available but often not used for reasons including knowledge, accessibility, preference and others. We sought to understand Kenyan health providers' an...

This article reports on an interview-based study with ten sound artists and composers, all engaged in situated sonic practices. We propose that these engage the ear shape possible interactions artwork by altering relationship between sound, space which it is heard people who hear it. Our interviews probe creative process explore how a artist’s methods tools might influence reception of their wo...