BACKGROUND Conceptual equivalence of measures is essential in research that compares health across diverse racial/ethnic groups. Cognitive interviews are pretest methods to explore the conceptual equivalence of survey items. Systematic approaches for using these methods are emerging. OBJECTIVE We describe an interaction analysis (IA) approach using qualitative data analysis software to analyz...

Our research studies the influence of positive affect on entrepreneurs' evaluations opportunities (i.e. novelty assessments and entrepreneurial selection) as well how this may be different for entrepreneurs belonging to cultural creative industries. Drawing arguments role in cognition considering particular situational individual-level factors entrepreneurship industries, we hypothesize that in...

paying attention to finance and financial marketing tools could significantly contribute to resolution of financial problems of the firms and avoid their bankruptcy. following the review of previous works in the field of marketing and its application in financing, as well as conducting semi-structured interviews, firstly marketing elements for financing were identified and then marketing strate...

Article history: Received 1 August 2014 Accepted 1 August 2014 Available online 28 August 2014 Against the background of demographic change, gray entrepreneurship has become more prevalent.When gray entrepreneurs chose to leave paid employment to become self-employed, it is of concern for companies whomay lose highly capable older employees. One of the reasons for this can be a failure to under...

abstract background: professional development is reiterated in the new definition of modern organizations as a serious undertaking of organizations. this article aims to present and describe a prescriptive model to increase the quality of professional development of iranian nurses within an organization‑based framework. materials and methods: this article is an outcome of the results of a study...

We examined factors contributing to developing entrepreneurial intentions (EI) and the relationship between EI mindset (EM) among nascent student entrepreneurs. Further, we seek increase awareness business practitioners of value entrepreneurs economy. Utilizing theory reasoned action planned behavior, investigated personal contextual related EI. surveyed 400 US college students, comparing those...