How does prior firm-founding experience affect subsequent venture performance? In this study, I examine the effect of founders’ prior firm-founding experience on the survival rate and the annualized rate of return on investment in subsequent ventures. Estimates of this relationship take into account selection effect of serial entrepreneurs and two roles of venture capitalists (VCs): i) evaluati...

The present study aims to design an international academic entrepreneurship model using grounded theory. The study population is a group of key Iranian informants, faculty members, and doctoral graduates with scientific expertise and work experience in the field of entrepreneurship, especially academic entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurship, and managers of knowledge-based academic...

INTRODUCTION Hospital managers aim to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their institutions through leadership and guidance of medical personnel. Fulfilling these objectives requires a holistic approach to both the management of people and institutional prioritization. The aim of this study was to identify the skills and competencies that hospital managers must demonstrate in order to ...

BACKGROUND Previous research showing correlations between spatial ability and surgical skills has used participants in relatively early stages of training. Research in skill acquisition has shown that the role of cognitive abilities can diminish as skills become increasingly automatic. In this study, we explored the role of spatial ability in laparoscopic surgical skills in two groups, one expe...

the present study aimed to examine the impact of life skills training on the components marital satisfaction of deaf women in the iranian deaf association(ida). a multiple-baseline, single-case experimental design was used. the statistical population consisted of all deaf women in the ida, in 2014-2015. a total of 3 deaf women who met the inclusion criteria were selected using a purposeful samp...