Academy of Management Review 2006‚ Vol. 31‚ No. 1‚ 132–152. ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION AND THE ROLE OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE THEORY OF THE ENTREPRENEUR JEFFERY S. MCMULLEN Baylor University DEAN A. SHEPHERD Indiana University By considering the amount of uncertainty perceived and the willingness to bear uncertainty concomitantly‚ we provide a more complete conceptual model of entrepreneurial action that allows for examination of entrepreneurial action at the individual level of analysis while remaining
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1. Name of Course/Module: Research Method 2. Course Code: BT 21603 Research Method 3. Name(s) of academic staff: Dr. Janice L. H. Nga (Room No. 10‚ Level 3‚ SPE. Ext. 1640‚ Email: janice@ums.edu.my;janicenga@yahoo.com) Dr. Zakariya Belkhamza (Room No. 26‚ Level 3‚ SPE. Ext. 1555‚ Email: zakariya@ums.edu.my) 4. Rationale for the inclusion of the course/module in the programme Doing research is an important activity of the for today’s business environment. Business and economics
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Phenomenology (architecture) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/#1 From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Phenomenology is both a philosophical design current in contemporary architecture and a specific field of academic research‚ based on the physical experience of building materials and their sensory properties. Beginning in the 1970s‚ phenomenology‚ with a strong influence from the writings of Martin Heidegger‚ began to have
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ENLIGHTENMENT The Enlightenment is the period in the history of western thought and culture‚ stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century‚ characterized by dramatic revolutions in science‚ philosophy‚ society and politics; these revolutions swept away the medieval world-view and ushered in our modern western world. Enlightenment thought culminates historically in the political upheaval of the French Revolution‚ in which the traditional hierarchical
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ideologies are likely the most famed and interesting of schools of philosophy that focus in the understanding of the origin of knowledge‚ or‚ epistemology. Indeed‚ theses advancements aroused questions on how do human beings acquire knowledge‚ and whether or not science was the source of people comprehension of reality. Among the popular philosophers of epistemology are for instance‚ David Hume the empiricist and Rene Descartes the rationalism. In this paper‚ I will strive to explain how David Hume
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Critical discourse analysis‚ organizational discourse‚ and organizational change A realist view of discourse analysis Discourses is an element of all concrete social events (actions‚ processes) as well as of more durable social practices‚ though neither are simply discourse: they are articulations of discourse with non-discoursal elements. ‘Discourse’ subsumes language as well as other forms of semiosis such as visual images and ‘body language’‚ and the discoursal element of a social event often
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is the human-like intelligence exhibited by machines or software. It is also an academic field of study. Major AI researchers and textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents"‚[1] where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success.[2] John McCarthy‚ who coined the term in 1955‚[3] defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines".[4] AI research
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rational investigation of the truths and principles of being‚ knowledge‚ or conduct. Philosophy focuses on three main types: Stoicism Skepticism Epicurean Philosophy consists of these philosophical areas: Metaphysics Materialism Idealism Epistemology Empiricism Rationalism Ethics Hedonism Cynicism Three Main Types Stoicism Refers to the knowledge of Aristotle "Mind is a blank state‚ impressions are made by the 5 senses." Stoics deny the metaphysical points of view. Real objects
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A Deeper Look into the Cave True reality is not obvious to most of us. We mistake what we see and hear to be reality and truth. This is the basic premise for Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ in which prisoners sit in a cave chained down‚ and are forced to watch images of vessels‚ statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone cast on the wall in front of them. They have no other option but to accept these views as reality and they are unable to grasp their overall situation: the cave and images
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chapter first explains Gunton as an evangelical theologian‚ his departure from the traditional classical theism‚ leading to his theological framework‚ and then‚ on Gunton’s particular doctrine of creation which is based on a purposive Trinitarian ontology. Finally‚ the ethical implications of this theological position‚ especially for ecological praxis‚
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