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We construct a simple model of occupational choice among agents with differing abilities. The fraction of agents creating new businesses who are low ability rises during recessions. Thus, cohorts born during recessions are on average lower quality: their businesses yield lower initial earnings,...
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Human capital investment theory suggests that entrepreneurs should be generalists, while those who work for others should be specialists; it also predicts higher incomes for entrepreneurs with generalist skills. An alternative view predicts that those with greater taste for variety are more...
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Recent findings by Hamilton (Journal of Political Economy, 2000) suggest that the self-employed do not receive a monetary premium for the risk and uncertainty associated with business ownership. In this paper, I show that that income underreporting by entrepreneurs can explain the lack of...
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1. Introduction -- 2. Learning theory and technology : behavioral, constructivist and adult learning approaches -- 3. Tutorial method : profiling, customization and agents -- 4. Group method : virtual teams and communities -- 5. Human-computer interaction in education -- 6. Interactivity and...
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"This book details practices of and technologies for e-collaborative knowledge construction, providing insights in the …1. Computer support in E-collaborative learning-by-doing environments / Lin Qiu -- 2. Collaborative knowledge …. Collaborative knowledge construction with Web video conferencing / Stylianos Hatzipanagos, Anthony Basiel, Annette Fillery …
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This book brings together high quality concepts closely related to organizational learning, knowledge workers … knowledge-based organizations of the 21st Century. …1. An overview of knowledge management / Jatinder Gupta, Sushil Sharma, Jeffrey Hsu -- 2. Information technology …
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practical. It also complements the many existing management books on strategy, technology, knowledge and systems while … addressing a well-recognized and significant void. It draws from the emerging knowledge-flow theory to provide stable principles … to build a practice of knowledge management. It also draws from diverse, real-world experience to provide operational …
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divide / Ellen Whybrow -- 17. Learning to become a knowledge-centric organization / George Stonehouse, Jonathan D. Pemberton …
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language (VPCL): visual system and method for teaching and learning programming and problem solving through knowledge … / Pamela G. Taylor -- Bringing the arts as data to visualize how knowledge works / Lihua Xu, Read Diket, Thomas Brewer …
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questionnaire / Teresa Rebelo, A. Gomes -- 12. Knowledge management and innovation / Leonor Cardoso, A. Gomes -- 13. Exploring …"This book provides empirical research findings and best practices on creativity and innovation in business …-solving style, problem complexity and knowledge generation / Corrado lo Storto -- 4. Towards a theoretical framework for creative …
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