Entrepreneurship is seen as a viable and powerful job engine for the U.S. economy. In 2008, 18.7% of workers 18-64 were either an owner-manager of an established business or involved in early-stage entrepreneurial activity For many women, entrepreneurship has been hailed as a welcoming workplace with great opportunity. Studies and growth projections by government and trade organizations such as...

This quantitative study discusses the level of professionalism maturity students at Sultan Qaboos University in Sultanate Oman. The problem is that lack professional makes student hesitant, to chooses specialization randomly or according parents teachers' opinion, regardless his inclinations, capabilities, future planning and what labor market requires. Which leads a change specialization, dela...

Most protein PageRank studies do not use signal flow direction information in protein interactions because this information was not readily available in large protein databases until recently. Therefore, four questions have yet to be answered: A) What is the general difference between signal emitting and receiving in a protein interactome? B) Which proteins are among the top ranked in direction...

The investigators proposed that transgression-related interpersonal motivations result from 3 psychological parameters: forbearance (abstinence from avoidance and revenge motivations, and maintenance of benevolence), trend forgiveness (reductions in avoidance and revenge, and increases in benevolence), and temporary forgiveness (transient reductions in avoidance and revenge, and transient incre...

Abstract Using comprehensive data of 4893 interactions from the popular television show Shark Tank , we test whether gender match with entrepreneurs correlates investors’ likelihood to extend funding offers. We find female investors are 35% more likely engage (rather than male) entrepreneurs, while less systematic preferences emerge for male investors. Heterogeneity analyses suggest this result...

We develop theory that distinguishes trust among employees in typical task contexts (marked by low levels of situational unpredictability and danger) from trust in “highreliability” task contexts (those marked by high levels of situational unpredictability and danger). A study of firefighters showed that trust in high-reliability task contexts was based on coworkers’ integrity, whereas trust in...

This study aims at analysing the effect of vendor’s ability, benevolence, and integrity toward e-Commerce customers’ trust. This study makes use of Indonesian e-Commerce users as research samples while using Likert scale questionnaire for data collection. Furthermore, the questionnaires are sent to as many as 198 respondents through the mailing list. For data analysis method this research uses ...

Women entrepreneurship is the key to the economic development of any country. There is a great focus on developing women entrepreneurs in developing countries as this is realized to lead to employment creation and increasing the per capita income. Research indicates that successful women entrepreneurs are those who have benefitted from family support. This abstract is part of a several studies ...

The purpose of this article is to empirically analyze how different forms of proximity influence interactive learning and ease of knowledge transfer among entrepreneurs, in order to advance the knowledge-based theory of clusters. Making use of ego-network data, gathered among entrepreneurs from the Amsterdam IT and new media-cluster and analyzed using structural equation modeling, the data lead...