Is entrepreneurship an innate ability or an acquired skill? Can entrepreneurship acumen be achieved and enhanced through education and training, or are certain people “born†to be entrepreneurs or to act entrepreneurially? Economists and management theorists give widely divergent...

A collection of working papers challenging the accepted paradigm that market structure determines market performance of the U.S. meat packing industry.

The imputed pig death loss contained in the reported monthly U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) pig crop data over the December 1995–June 2006 period ranged from 24.93% to 12.75%. Clearly, there are substantial measurement errors in the USDA monthly pig crop data. In this paper, we...