FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES JEREMY C. SHORT‚* TODD W. MOSS‚ and G. T. LUMPKIN Rawls College of Business Administration‚ Texas Tech University‚ Lubbock‚ Texas‚ U.S.A. Social entrepreneurship has been a topic of academic inquiry for nearly 20 years‚ yet relatively little scholarly output has appeared in mainstream management and entrepreneurship journals. Our review of this literature reveals that conceptual articles outnumber empirical studies‚ and empirical efforts often lack formal hypotheses and rigorous
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PART ONE INTRODUCTION Sokoto Jihad and the formation of the Caliphate The greatest and certainly the most influential of the nineteenth century jihads was that of Usman dan Fodio. He was a Fulani of the Torodbe clan which had migrated to Gobir‚ in north-western Hausaland‚ many generations before. He was born in 1754 into a scholarly family and he and his younger brother Abdullahi‚ were given a broad Islamic education. At that time of his youth‚ Gobir‚ as have seen‚ had become the most powerful
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Checkpoint: Skinner Article By Shelley McCann B. F. Skinner emphasized the importance of making psychology a science‚ using controlled experiments to objectively measure behavior influencing cognitive psychology. Skinner believed that each person is born a blank slate. He contributed the theory of operant conditioning. For example reinforcement strengthens behavior and punishment weakens behavior. Skinner developed this theory by conducting experiments on rats and pigeons in a “Skinner Box”
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“The Role of Evaluative Conditioning in Attitude Formation” Summary: This article describes the roles which are played by Evaluative Conditioning (EC) towards attitude formation. The study of attitude formation is one of the major subjects which are considered by most of the social psychologists during a research. Our attitudes have very important role towards the formation of our behavior for our self and for others. There are certain things that we like and there are some things which are not liked
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Formation & Change - Self-Concept This assignment is about how a person constructs their self-concept and how they then live their lives in a way which supports this self construct. I then explore Rogers theory of personality and how change occurs in a therapeutic relationship. When a child is born he is totally egocentric. Not only does everything revolve around him‚ but the world is ‘self’‚ he has no concept of any world outside of self. When his psychological needs are not being met he
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and gang members. Another reason that contributes to the problem is that most of the gang members did not get an education in order to survive so the find their way of living in this world. The need of employment is another factor that causes the formation of gang members since that is the only way to survive for them in getting money. Anthony Perez was not a gang member in this case but the innocent persons are the ones that have to pay the consequences of parents not instructing their child correctly
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Identity formation is an intricate notion. It usually is affected in 4 different ways in our society. The micro‚ meso‚ macro‚ and global levels of social interaction all play a key role in identity formation. These levels are always present‚ however‚ we may think we define ourselves by our own value or we believe that society plays a role in our own identity formation. We must look at the everyday groups we fall into such as male‚ female‚ heterosexual‚ bisexual‚ homosexual‚ freshman‚ sophomore
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Article Review ARTICLE SYNOPSIS The article focused on patents in e-business and intellectual property. Patents are important when running an e-business. This is so because it is on an open market and the competition may be from any location. E-business should be aware that patents might not automatically cover new invention. Before opening an e-business potential owners should research e-business patent laws (Mello‚ 2002). They should be aware of domestic
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A Thomasian Accountant Viewpoint Reaction on the Article “Is Thomistic Philosophy Relevant in Seminary Formation?” Cl. Marc Will R. Lim‚ SDB It gives me hard time to react on an article written by someone whom I perceived belongs to the rule makers‚ standard bearers and theory setters. Having graduated from a Pontifical University run by Dominicans and with a degree afar from the course which subjects everything to critical reflection‚ I found myself on the verge of completely adhering. But
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Article synthesis assignment Table of content 1 Introduction 1 2 Summary of each article 2 2.1 The mechanism of internationalization article summary 2 2.2 The internationalization of small computer software firms article summary 2 3 Main ideas of articles 3 3.1 The most important of article 3 3.2 Main argument of article 3 3.3 Criticize previous approaches 4 4 How articles have been built? 4 4.1 Concept and definitions 4 4.1.1 “The mechanism of internationalization”
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