The characteristics of women entrepreneurs outside the United States are studied. Interviews were conducted with six Czech, eight Polish, and six Japanese women entrepreneurs.The five-part interviews required respondents to provide, among other things, brief histories of their businesses, as...

Purpose – Many organizations with quality management programs in place have also engaged in downsizing. Aims to show how employees' perceptions of their organization's quality management practices provide some indication of how organizational downsizing affects an organization's quality...