Business ventures are started by individuals and teams with very different backgrounds and motivations, pursuing business ideas of very variable inherent quality in environments that also show tremendous variability. As a result it is difficult to arrive at broadly valid generalizations, and...

This study investigates, from the methodological perspective, how research on the influence of the country of origin effect has been conducted. To this end, the study reviews main published literature of the last five years, categorizing the documents according to various methodological issues....

Even if today's successful companies operating in the market were start-ups at some time, so far, no consensus could be found, if entrepreneurship is to be understood as an independent research discipline. Should entrepreneurship have its own theory based on generally accepted assumptions and...

In this study, school children wore a validated accelerometer and completed the Previous Day Physical Activity Recall for three consecutive days. When applied to the holdout sample, an algorithm of predicted minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity showed good agreement with the actual...

Out-of-home placement may not always protect children against violence or maltreatment. We investigated the prevalence rates of physical abuse of adolescents in different types of out-of-home care, and compared these with the prevalence of physical abuse in the general population, using findings...

Most information on the prevalence of drug use comes from self-report surveys. The sensitivity of such information is cause for concern about the accuracy of self-report measures. In this study, self-reported drug use in the last 48 hr is compared to results from biological assays of saliva...