Risk aversion is one of the major impediments to entrepreneurship, and survival growth startups in developing world. Female entrepreneurs portray even a higher risk averse attitude regarding starting new businesses or introducing business lines their existing businesses. The intention this study explore strategies that can be employed reduce among female entrepreneurs. A qualitative research me...

The present research examines operational performance and verbal communication in airline flight crews under reduced crew operations (RCO). Eighteen two-pilot crews flew six scenarios under three conditions; one condition involved current-day operations while two involved RCO. In RCO flights, the Captain initially operated the simulated aircraft alone but could request remote crewmember support...

Over the past few years, firms in the travel and entertainment industries have begun using novel sales strategies for revenue management. In this chapter, we study a selling strategy called opaque selling, in which firms guarantee one of several fully specified products, but hide the identity of the product that the consumer will actually obtain until after the purchase is completed. Several fi...

This article examines the determinants of the location of large firms’ headquarters across a rich sample of European urban areas, focusing on the availability of nonstop intercontinental flights. We also account for the influence of other aspects: the proximity to large markets and specialized providers, congestion and tax costs, the availability of skilled labor, and the role of the urban area...

Philosophy of Education in the Semiotics Charles Peirce. A Cosmology Learning and Loving de Alin Olteanu / OLTEANU, Loving, Oxford/Berlin, Peter Lang, 2015, 282 p.. Un article la revue Cygne noir (Sémiotique des mystères) diffusée par plateforme Érudit.

Abstract We study distributional preferences in adolescent peer networks. Using incentivized choices between allocations for themselves and a passive agent, children are classified into efficiency-loving, inequality-loving, inequality-averse, spiteful types. find that pairs of students who report friendship link more likely to exhibit the same preference type than other attend school. The relat...

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Commercial fishing involves both physical and financial risks. This combination questions whether fishermen are inherently risk-loving, whether physical and financial risk preferences are correlated, and how much preferences vary across fishermen. This paper addresses these questions with a panel data set of daily participation decisions in the California sea urchin dive fishery. Weather buoy d...

This manuscript focuses on four potential stumbling blocks in the multicultural feminist couple treatment of African-American, same-gender loving female adult child sexual abuse survivors: (1) gender roles; (2) "coming out" to self, family, and the community; (3) lesbian couple relationships; and (4) the expression of lesbian sexuality. These four potential barriers to therapeutic outcome withi...