The resilient entrepreneur: the use of successful coping behaviours to experience relief from emotional intensity by entrepreneurs in Canada

There is a lack of qualitative research demonstrating the emotional processes that entrepreneurs experience after they first start their businesses. This dissertation analyzed the emotional processes experienced by ten entrepreneurs during their venture’s start-up phase. A constructivist grounded theory research design was used to collect and analyze data in this investigation. Research findings showed entrepreneurs experienced simultaneous emotions that were of an intense nature during their early stages of business. These emotions included some combination of: excitement, anxiety/fear, disappointment, pressure/self-doubt, isolation, and relief. In addition, entrepreneurs identified entrepreneurial distress related to the constant need for action in their ventures and the use of technology, including cellular phones, email, and social media. Entrepreneurs described a gradual reduction in emotional intensity as they gained experience and learned how to cope. Coping behaviours used by entrepreneurs to counteract the overwhelming nature of emotions were: (a) developing improved entrepreneurial social networks, (b) gaining experience/learning from mistakes, and (c) changing their perspective on life as a whole. Coping behaviours aided in the reduction and fluctuation of entrepreneurial emotions

Economic and social condition of England on the eve of the industrial revolution, with special reference to Lancashire

The economic and social condition of England on the eve of the industrial revolution, with special reference to LancashireIt is the purpose of this thesis to discuss some phases of this period of preparation, and to show how, in the spheres of agriculture and of industry, the highway had been made straight for the entry of the new methods and organisation that were to create and dominate the new age. An endeavour will he made to show how far the abandonment of the old economic organisation had proceeded, and to what extent the lines of the new had begun to emerge. While special attention is paid throughout to Lancashire, it has not been the intention to confine the scope of discussion to that county* but rather to use it to illustrate the broader sweep of the principles involved. Any description of England is liable to be partial , and thus make generalisations difficult. Industry was expanding in the north, while in the south and west,, it tended to decline. The worsted industry of Norfolk and Essex had already begun to move northward into Yorkshire. The cotton industry bin Lancashire was already beginning to cause uneasiness amongst the woollen manufacturers and merchants, lest the new fabrics should spoil their trade. With industry, population was moving northward. While the date 1760 is adopted as roughly marking the limit of the present enquiry, it stands rather as a landmark than as a goal post. In the woollen industry particularly, it is possible to take facts from a later period without invalidating the main contention of the thesis.There will he an attempt to show how the new movements, which were to dominate the modern, economic world were already groping through to the light. During the first half of the eighteenth century. the systems and organisation of a former age were passing away, and when the new order gained, entrance, it found the "room more or less swept and garnished. There were still many survivals of the former system, but the great landmarks, which had so strongly characterized the Tudor and Stuart regimes were gone, and their places were waiting to be filled by the ideas and institutions of a new world

Elastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from helium-4: A measurement of G(E)(S) at Q2 = 0.1 (GeV/c)2

We have performed the first measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in the elastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from 4He. The kinematics chosen (Q 2 = 0.1 (GeV/c)2) provide a direct sensitivity to the strange electric form factor GsE with negligible contributions from competing effects. This experiment was performed in June 2004 and July-September 2005 in Hall A at Jefferson Lab. This work represents the experimental setup and analysis of the 2004 dataset.;The final statistical precision, from the combined datasets, put stringent requirements on the systematic errors that normalize the asymmetry (e.g. Q2, beam polarization, backgrounds). The experimental and analysis techniques, presented in this thesis, resulted in a 12.9% relative measure of the parity-violating asymmetry for the 2004 dataset, and a 4.1% relative measure for the 2005 dataset (the most precise measurement of a parity-violating asymmetry ever obtained).;The 2004 measured result, APV = 6.72 +/- 0.84 (stat) +/- 0.21 (syst) ppm, allows for the extraction of the electric strange form factor: GsE (Q2 = 0.1) = -0.038 +/- 0.042 (stat) +/- 0.010 (syst). When combined with results from previous experiments, at nearly the same kinematics, a clear picture of the contribution of strange quarks to the nucleon\u27s electric and magnetic form factors emerges

Midwest Health Services: Purchasing Patient Snacks

Melanie Griffin is a recent college graduate who has been asked by her supervisor to evaluate the consumption of snacks and pop at the ambulatory surgery center for which she works. Immediately, Melanie is confronted with the cultural complexities of a small health services operation. The reader discovers these complexities through a lively meeting dialogue, and the reader is then asked to help Melanie prepare for a follow-up meeting by identifying, analyzing, and preparing possible procurement solutions. The richness of this case is attributed to the practical quantitative consumption and pricing analysis coupled with the complexities of implementation because of the array of personalities. This case is appropriate for early undergraduate courses in management, marketing, and managerial accounting