The purpose of this paper was to examine the factors affecting the future firm size expectations of nascent entrepreneurs. This was done by testing a decision model on a unique data set composed of a random sample of nascent entrepreneurs. The proposed model is based on four different components...

Bildungspolitische Fragen haben in den letzten Jahren eine verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Auch der beruflichen und hier insbesondere der betrieblichen Weiterbildung wird vor dem Hintergrund des Paradigmas des „lebenslangen Lernens“ eine zunehmende Bedeutung eingeräumt. In der...

Mit der Arbeit wird der Versuch unternommen, den Zusammenhängen von Biographie- und individuellen Lernprozessen nachzugehen. Dies erfolgt am Beispiel von acht ostdeutschen ExistenzgründerInnen, die sich nach der Wende in den neuen Bundesländern im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel selbständig gemacht...

In the emergence of a pro-patent and intellectual capital era the management of Intellectual Property (IP) is currently undergoing major changes. IP management systems are becoming increasingly complex and strategic in handling an integrated portfolio of IPRs and intellectual assets rather than...

This paper addresses problems of calibration and estimation of a parameter, p{sub o}, in high level neutron coincidence counting (HLNC) measurement. The presentation begins with a deductive approach, based on the generally accepted physical equations which are satisfied by the total and...

When measurements are obtained for the purpose of material accountability, any deviation of averages from true value is one of great concern. The key term here is true value. Any deviation of averages from their true value will result in inventory discrepancies. It will not matter that the bias...

Concentrations of environmental pollutants tend to follow positively skewed frequency distributions. Two such density functions are the gamma and lognormal. Minimum variance unbiased estimators of the expected value for both densities are available. The small sample statistical properties of...