Our Unconventional Founding

Reclaiming our heritage: connecting the Founding Vision to the Centennial Vision.

I am delighted to have the pleasure of exploring with you the Founding Vision of occupational therapy. As the Centennial Vision is poised to lead the profession in the beginning of the 21st century, I would like to take us back in time to the early years of the 20th century, when the profession of occupational therapy was founded. There are many parallels between that founding period and now. I...

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...