The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the data reduction technique of self-organizing maps and to compare it with data reduction techniques in SPSS. Especially, factor analysis and multidimensional scaling (MDS) are chosen...

In cognitive entrepreneurship research one main question is: Do entrepreneurs thinkdifferently than others in various ways? Especially in the area of risk perception cognition isthought of as information processing. In later streams of cognitive science it has developedfrom a state where...

Even after 10 years, countries under transition are still an theirway to becoming developed, internationally competitivecountries. At this stage it is helpful for business cooperation toknow whether managers in countries undergoing transition arebehaving like socialists or Western managers, or...

Since the end of the 1970s much discontent has beenexpressed about a decrease in capital expendituresby Western companies . 1 This investment gap -measured by corporate investment as a decliningpercentage of GNP- is cause for concern, 2 and reflectsa low level of innovation. Clearly, during...