Unexceptional women : female proprietors in Albany, 1830-85 -- Female microentrepreneurs : linking stories and statistics -- Doing business : patterns and parameters -- Micronetworks and the family business economy -- Business or labor? : blurred boundaries in the careers of self-employed...

The Adirondack Forest Worker: Surviving in a Changing Timber Industry emerged as a topic out of the research performed at the Adirondack Nature Conservancy/Adirondack Land Trust (ANC/ALT). The research consisted of identifying market trends in order to evaluate the future effectiveness of...

This is a case study about a fast food company whose aggressive growth in thepast has left it vulnerable and unable to cope with the results of its expansion. Thisquickservice restaurant chain has been lauded by many business gurus for itsinnovation, efficiency and its focus on customer service....

The hospitality industry is a billion dollar industrybased upon customer service. Measure of quality service isan intangible concept based upon the perception of thecustomer. It is the industry's front-line employee that hasthe responsibility of fulfilling the perceived image ofservice the guest...

This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...

This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...

Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these data have functioning systems to produce them...

Most growth monitoring programmes in developing countries have not been successful in reducing malnutrition. This is due, at least in part, to the exclusion of mothers from the process of growth monitoring. An essential requisite for greater participation is for mothers to understand the meaning...

"Nonprofit theory predicts nonprofit enterprises will be more trustworthy than for-profit enterprises in the delivery of goods for which quality is difficult to determine because nonprofit enterprises are legally required to reinvest all profits back into the enterprise. Theoretically, consumers...