We hypothesize that retail and service business units will enjoy reduced failure rates if affiliated with experienced multiunit owners and franchisors. Experience of individual owners and franchisees should result in knowledge that is tacit and idiosyncratic and thus primarily of value locally....

Many users of social services in the United States live on low incomes. Those who receive Social Security disability benefits or who qualify for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits have incomes below the poverty line. Social service users often also face social and economic...

Using a simulated bilateral negotiation over several security issues, the authors explore how variations in the negotiation context influence reactions to a negotiating crisis. Negotiators were primed to focus on one of three aspects of the context: transaction costs, dependence, or shared...