Where Angels Fear to Tread: a Contribution from General Sociology to Human Ethics.

Mergers and acquisitions: caution

They say fools of venture where angels fear to tread . Up until now , there's been no precedent for a successful technology merger of the size of the HP and Compaq merger. The most quoted failure is the merger of computer vendors Burroughs and Sperry. In 1986 these two merged their dissimilar operations and very different corporate cultures. Unisys, the resulting company, briefly held second pl...

‘Rushing in where Angels Fear to Tread?’ The Early Internationalization of Indigenous Chinese Firms

In this paper I empirically investigate the early international entrepreneurship of indigenous Chinese firms using data on 3,948 firms surveyed by the World Bank in 2002-03. I find important differences in the extent and motivation of early internationalization between indigenous and foreign-invested Chinese firms. Despite having started with internationalization relatively more recently than m...

Statistical Methods for Microarray Research for Drug Target Identification

Alexander Pope once wrote “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” In more recent times, Johnny Mercer wrote “fools rush in where wise men never go. But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know.” Mercer’s words are perhaps indicative of where the field of microarray design and analysis is today. There is no question that fools (including the current author) have rushed into this ...

A Rorschach comparison of psychopaths, sexual homicide perpetrators, and nonviolent pedophiles: where angels fear to tread.

Nonsexually offending psychopaths (N = 32) were compared to sexual homicide perpetrators (N = 38) and nonviolent pedophiles (N = 39) on select Comprehensive System Rorschach variables (Exner et al., 1993). Results indicate similarities among the groups in pathological narcissism, formal thought disorder, and borderline level reality testing. Nonsexually offending psychopaths are distinguished b...

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