entrepreneurship is one of the key requirements for economic development. so determinants of the development of entrepreneurial activities has always been of interest to researchers. economic freedom and reducing the size of government is to foster entrepreneurship as substrates. the main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of economic freedom on the development of entrepreneurial ...

literary commitment is an imported concept from western literary review which has found great place among arab scholars and critics in the last decades, because the critical, political, economic and cultural conditions of arab world and the domination of cruelty and exploitation caused the writers and poets to accompany the revolution of innocent countries. farouq jowaida, an egypt poet, is one...

At the core of Wilson et al.'s paper stands the question of intentional change. We propose to extend this notion by introducing concepts from the domains of innovation and knowledge creation. By going beyond their "acceptance and commitment therapy" approach we present a comprehensive framework for a theory of change culminating in the change strategy of "learning from the future as it emerges."

IT IS TRUE, of course, that most early American librarians-believers in the logic of the Enlightenment-personally abhorred book censorship, and that some supported this conviction with appropriate words and deeds, But the profession’s putatively strong commitment to the right to read and to the wider concept of intellectual freedom is nevertheless largely a twentieth century development, beginn...

This paper studies the propensity of firms to commit to disclose information that is subsequently biased, in the presence of other firms also issuing potentially biased information. An important aspect of such an analysis is the fact that firms can choose whether to disclose or withhold information. We show that allowing the number of disclosed reports to be endogenous introduces a countervaili...

Psychiatrists have proposed broadened commitment statues based on need for care and treatment, and under which judges have no role in deciding cases of treatment refusal. The mental health bar has consistently opposed these proposals on constitutional and common law grounds. The authors propose new commitment criteria based on incompetency to decide about hospitalization, and inability to live ...

Commitment to outpatient psychiatric treatment evolved in the courts to protect patients' right to freedom from compulsory hospitalization. This ruling has been criticized by the psychiatric profession, who prioritize treatment rather than liberty. The following case demonstrates the use of commitment as a therapeutic tool in the psychotherapy of a woman with severe borderline pathology. Althou...