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... a brief background on business performance in small business and the problems entrepreneurs o...Business performance is a complex issue that can be measured with a variety of indicators, the ... of which are sales, profits, assets, physical output, market share, number of employees and the ... as its size and age, are all possible factors in performance. The majority of business start-ups...& S. Baines. (1998). Does gender affect business 'performance'? A study of microbusinesses...
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... meaning at work beyond paychecks and performance reviews. Spirituality is about people sharing and ..., a review of the literature determined that there is no single agreed-upon definition of the t...) and found a high correlation between affective organizational commitment and intrinsic job satisf... solely through computers--all of these factors contribute to a workplace ripe for embracing a con... spirituality include 'increased physical and mental health of employees, advanced personal ...
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..., large-scale, environmental changes that are affecting our planet (WHO, 2003) though differ...Changes in climate factors such as temperature, precipitation, humidity and s... savings as well as investment in physical and financial assets. Apart from these, premature ... its effects on school attendance and performance (Malaney et al., 2004). School-age children in mal...
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..., if those acts aredepicted" in a manner that "[a] reasonable person, considering the game as a ... Both ends arelegitimate, but when they affect First Amendment rightsthey must be pursued by mean... as many (if not more)descriptions of physical love as descriptions of violence.Indeed, sex "ha... habits,accustom the player to performance of the task, andreward the player for performi...).Winkel, Novak, & Hopson, Personality Factors, Subject Gender, and the Effects of Aggressive Vid...
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Entrepreneurship and the development of new business continue to be the forefront of socioeconomic development in virtually all economies today. Despite evidence of increasing research into entrepreneurial growth, the existing research is limited by the fact that most studies define entrepreneurial growth as a unidimensional construct and operationalize it as "realized" growth relying on financially based measures. Consequently, this article has two objectives: (1) to develop a set of accurate and comprehensive entrepreneurial growth measures; and (2) to test a series of hypotheses regarding precursors of growth intentions-more specifically, to what extent, infrastructure factors affect entrepreneurial growth intentions. These two questions were examined using Entrepreneurial Profile Qu...
...), which refers to the link between performance and specific desired outcome. While many entrepren... "durable" or "hard goods" are adequate physical facilities and financial support. "Softer" element...
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INTRODUCTION . Each year, poverty affects millions of Americans in many different and someti... programs have been based on the idea that people would 'fall' onto hard times, and could "li...; Olson, 1999) suggest poorer academic performance and health outcomes are related to food insecurity..., 1997), this analysis considers what factors influence how long an individual receives food ass...Capacity issues such as physical storage space and equipment, staff training and ed...
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... banking model "the right model" and said that its strategy was to be "the world's truly global u... are most concerned by how the crisis affects them. By using corrective action strategies the co... interest, improve financial performance, attract top employee talent, increase the return ...The three factors that shape reputational threat are 1) initial cris... of crises that, for example, result in physical harm to others. Again, further case studies of fin...
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... USA (Wechsler, Lee, Kuo, & Lee, 2000) found that most students drank alcohol, and almost half of th... consequences, such as poor school performance, physical and sexual assaults, vandalism, legal pr... amount of research has focused on risk factors for drinking among university students, ranging fr... individual differences variable that may affect drinking behavior among college students is self-e...
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... and Mincer, 1974) and it is widely accepted that strong and statistically significant relationships..., the impact of educational policies and factors that affect learning continues to generate widespr...Further, student physical health is measured as follows: great health, good ...
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... Again, that's www.oilspillcommission.gov. . And at this point ... many of the Gulf's people who have been affected by the spill. They come to mind as we consider re... which had had a long record of unsafe performance or did it reflect more broadly on the industry its... deep the well is or any of those other factors that obviously influence the risk factor? And...Formidable physical and mental health impacts have emerged as a conseq...