Measuring Founding Strategy

A Strategy for Measuring Biodiversity

Several recent studies insist that multiplying the indices used to measure biological diversity (or rather, characteristics, related to it) makes no contribution to comparative studies, or to our understanding of the importance and characteristics of the changes caused by anthropic disturbance. In this study we propose a program that we call strategy, in order to measure biodiversity for the pu...

Founding Editor

From the Founding Editor

ASL is gearing up for change in looks, content as well as its name. About 27 years after it was launched, ASL is undergoing a complete transformation to meet fresh challenges of the new millennium. The journal will have a new look and feel, its advisory committee reconstituted, a more efficient peer review process and an online platform for submission and review of research papers. Very soon, a...

Founding properties on measurement

Taking for granted an ontological standpoint independent of any empirical or epistemological perspective, philosophical theories of properties are actually quite rarely adopted in the knowledge representation community. The theory of qualities introduced in the DOLCE-CORE ontology [4] allows for representing different viewpoints on the world in a unified framework but it does not refer to any p...

Firm Founding and Systematic Search

This research uses a representative sample of U.S. nascent entrepreneurs to find that there is a positive relationship between their use of systematic search and their success in founding new firms. We control for mediating variables and find that searching systematically leverages firm founding by using an adaptive decision making style and social capital. Systematic search also appears to red...