Finding the silver lining: the role of affect and adversity in entrepreneurial venturing.

Motivated goal pursuit is a foundational concept in entrepreneurial venturing. Entrepreneurs set goals for their ventures, and their persistence in pursuing these goals ultimately impacts the success of their venture. Many of the explanations of motivation in goal pursuit have focused on the benefits of steady progress and positive emotions. However, entrepreneurs inevitably face adversity and setbacks which, in turn, beget negative emotions. It is yet unclear what role adversity and the ensuing negative emotions may have in motivating entrepreneurs. In order to extend our theoretical understanding of affect and adversity in entrepreneurial venturing, this dissertation draws on the existing literature on emotion, resilience, and self-regulation to develop hypotheses related to the effect of these constructs on the three behavioral outcomes of motivation: direction, intensity, and persistence of effort. This dissertation is divided into four chapters. The first provides an overview of the existing theoretical perspectives that have been used to explain how entrepreneurs maintain motivation in times of challenge. From this, chapter one derives one overarching research question, and two research sub-questions. Chapter two presents the empirical investigation of the first research sub-question and draws on regulatory focus theory to offer hypotheses related to the impact of baseline and situationally induced affect in motivated goal pursuit. The study uses a quasi-experimental methodology to measure aspiring entrepreneurs’ motivational response to negative feedback in goal pursuit in real-time. The third chapter comprises the empirical investigation of the second research sub-question, and seeks to elucidate how the positive and negative emotions associated with psychological resilience impact entrepreneurs’ motivated goal pursuit over time. The study tracks nascent entrepreneurs using a daily-diary methodology over the course of two weeks, measuring both their affective and motivational responses to a self-reported venturing challenge. The fourth and final chapter considers the results of both studies together, to offer a response to the overarching research question posed in chapter one. In all, this research demonstrates that negative emotions have an important role to play in responding to and overcoming adversity and suggests that they may function in tandem with positive emotions to spur entrepreneurs forward

Love Letters to Lichen

The T. Rudzinskaitė Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society was founded in 2018 by continuing co-chairs Tessa Zettel and Dr. Sumugan Sivanesan at Nida Art Colony on the Curonian Spit, Lithuania, eighth Eco-zone. Named in honour of Tekle Rudzinskaitė, Lithuania’s foremost amateur lichenologist, after 73 years the Society remains dedicated to promoting the love and study of lichen in this galaxy and beyond. Its steadily growing membership of multispecies co-constituents participate in myriad curious forms of research, happenings and publications, collectively exploring speculative narratives and rituals around extinction that take lichen as guide, teacher, poet and friend. In 2091 the liveliest of its many enthusiast-led working groups are the emergent Crystal Radio Lab, the Metta Verse Mutual Aid Space Program (with subsidiary SpaceTime Fab Lab) and the Therolinguistics Reading Group. Periodically the Society publishes a bulletin—in whatever ready context is amenable—updating members on its latest movements; what follows is the 2089 edition, regrettably somewhat delayed.  Please click on the links between the written pieces in the newsletter to see the recordings. &nbsp

Aquatic Heteroptera Of the Lake Manguao Catchment, Palawan and New Rank Of Rhagovelia kawakamii hoberlandti Hungerford & Matsuda 1961

Results of an inventory of the fauna of aquatic and semiaquatic true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera) of small streams in a lake catchment of northern Palawan are presented. Twenty-one species were recorded. Taxonomic and ecological notes, distribution and collection sites are given for each identified taxon. Rhagovelia hoberlandti Hungerford & Matsuda 1961 is newly ranked as a subspecies of R. kawakamii (Matsumura 1913): Rhagovelia kawakamii hoberlandti Hungerford & Matsuda 1961, stat.n. Cercotmetus asiaticus Amyot & Serville 1843 is recorded for the first time from the Philippines. Endemic and few undescribed taxa are discussed. Additional environmental data of the sampled waters are discussed with comparative surveys in the country

SNC Graduates Quick to Land Jobs, Enter Grad School

Three graduates tell SNC parents about their post-graduation journeys in Fall 2018

Transformational Leader Self-Perception And Objective Sales Performance: The Potential Moderating Effects Of Behavioral Coping Ability

This research reports results from an exploratory study that examined the relationship between salespersons’ self-perceived leadership styles, behavioral and emotional coping abilities, and objective sales performance. The direct sales staff of a financial services firm provided the data for the study. The self-rater version of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ 5X, short form) was used to capture the sales personnel’s self-perceptions of their leadership styles with respect to transformational and transactional leadership. Two main scales from the Constructive Thinking Inventory (CTI) were used to assess the behavioral and emotional coping abilities of the participants. Data analyses indicated a significant relationship between active transactional leader self-perception, transformational leader self-perception, behavioral coping ability, and sales performance. This was not the case for passive transactional leadership or emotional coping ability. In addition, behavioral coping ability moderated the relationship between transformational self-perception and sales performance such that those sales personnel who perceived themselves as transformational delivered enhanced performance when behavioral coping ability was good rather than poor.

Medos líquidos

O trabalho consiste em um ensaio fotográfico sobre o medo na sociedade contemporânea. O medo, em sua forma subjetiva e não concreta, está presente em todos nós. É uma resposta evolutiva e natural dos seres humanos àquilo que possa nos fazer mal. Atualmente, chegamos ao ponto de pautar nossas decisões, vontades e desejos por esses medos. Os governos e outras formas de poder se utilizam desse sentimento para controlar a população. Vive-se em um mundo de estímulos, em uma sociedade que corre e recebe diversas informações ao mesmo tempo, onde a imagem ganha um lugar privilegiado como forma de experimentação do real. Por isso, este trabalho expressa a singularidade e a subjetividade do medo em forma de imagens, buscando mostrar como este é banalizado e que não deveria ser tão presente quanto é em nossas vidas

Moral Evaluation in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas

Two different methods for morally evaluating actions can be found in Albert the Great's works. The first, which I call the stages theory, requires that an act be evaluated in three stages: 1) its generic quality, or type; 2) its circumstances; and 3) whether it proceeds from virtue or vice. According to this theory, an act might be generically good, but done badly, or generically bad, but done well. The second method is an all-or-nothing principle. It requires that an act be good in each of a number of ways in order for it to be good overall. I call it the Dionysian principle, after pseudo-Dionysius, who stated that good is from a single complete cause, while bad is from any particular defect. It is not clear how these two methods go together, and at least one formulation of the Dionysian principle appears to be inconsistent with the stages theory. Thomas Aquinas, who studied under Albert, resolves the tension between the two methods by rejecting the stages theory and embracing the Dionysian principle. I argue that this disagreement between Albert and Aquinas leads them to describe certain hard cases very differently. Albert can maintain that agents in resolvable moral dilemmas perform a bad action, although it is the right action in the circumstances; Aquinas cannot, but rather claims that the agent in an apparent dilemma does not in fact perform the act he appears to perform. Finally, I draw out these differences by comparing both the stages theory and the Dionysian principle to certain Stoic antecedents

A new intertidal shore bug (Heteroptera: Saldidae) from the Philippines

Salduncula carmencitae sp.n. is described, its habitus and the paramere and parandria of the male are illustrated. This shore bug was found on Mindanao Island, the Philippines, in the intertidal zone. Habitat and behaviour of the species are briefly described. The distinguishing diagnostic characters of species of Salduncula Brown, 1954 are discussed