The entrepreneurial gardeners

Entrepreneurial Strategising: the Tacit Mode Entrepreneurial Strategising: the Tacit Mode

Research on entrepreneurialism and strategic thinking has taken a cognitive and constructivist turn in recent years. Such a turn is to be welcomed. However, what remains relatively unexplored, even within this 'softer' approach to entrepreneurial strategising, is a sustained focus on the underlying perceptual mechanisms shaping the processes of cognition and sensemaking. This paper seeks to ext...

The Entrepreneurial Outlaw

Financing the Entrepreneurial Venture

This paper is about …nancial contracting choices for the entrepreneur. In an incomplete contracts model, the entrepreneur can design contracts contingent on three possible control right allocations: entrepreneur-control, investor-control, and joint control, with each allocation inducing di¤erent e¤ort levels by both the entrepreneur and the investor. Four types of contract emerge as potentially...

Cryptorchidism and hypospadias in sons of gardeners and farmers.

Cryptorchidism and hypospadias have been related to prenatal estrogen exposure in animal models. Some chemicals used in farming and gardening have been shown to possess estrogenic and other hormone-disrupting effects. Earlier studies have indicated increased risks of urogenital malformations in the sons of pesticide appliers. In the present study, parental occupation in the farming and gardenin...

Urban Community Gardeners' Knowledge and Perceptions of Soil Contaminant Risks

Although urban community gardening can offer health, social, environmental, and economic benefits, these benefits must be weighed against the potential health risks stemming from exposure to contaminants such as heavy metals and organic chemicals that may be present in urban soils. Individuals who garden at or eat food grown in contaminated urban garden sites may be at risk of exposure to such ...