not too rare to be found by a reasonable mutation process, and that typical simulation paths take the population from …

The papers in this special issue of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation cover the following topics: improving …, globalization, and innovation: a general equilibrium simulation, whether exchange rates affect consumer prices: a comparative …

. The study is fieldwork based and uses evidence from face-to-face interviews with 63 owner managers of mature small firms … in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over …

performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year …

effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …

performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture … formulate the following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education … year t and several measures of the performance of individual entrepreneurs in that same country and year, including …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

competition on their integral performance. The present paper aims to trace to what extent and why some cities outperform others … explicit consideration of the perceptions of important classes of stakeholders on the performance outcomes of the various …

This paper examines the effect of incentives on the performance of darts players. We analyze four data sets comprising … natural research setting, because performance can be observed at the individual level and without the obscuring effects of … higher incentives, but choke when the incentives are really high. Professional players similarly display better performance …