The article contains an empirical analysis of the strategy processes followed by new small
firms to achieve speedy growth and success. It draws upon new evidence gathered by face-to-…

This paper seeks a good measure of new business performance, and then explains this
measure by various dimensions of business strategy. Three criteria are used to create a one …

New empirical evidence is presented on organisational change, outsourcing and the impact
on management accounting in three types of organisations: private sector companies, the …

This paper is an empirical study, making appeal to firsthand evidence gathered by face-to-face
interviews with the owner-managers of 150 small firms in Scotland. It investigates the …

Objective: To describe doctors' prognostic accuracy in terminally ill patients and to evaluate
the determinants of that accuracy. Design: Prospective cohort study Setting: Five outpatient …

This study assessed the impact on 10th-grade students of attending high schools whose
practices are consistent with the school-restructuring movement. Using data on a sample of …

Research suggests that the social organization of schools has an important impact on both
teachers and students. Using hierarchical linear modeling techniques, the authors explore …

The study described in this article investigates the relationship between high school size
and student learning. We used three waves of data from NELS:88 and hierarchical linear …

The jumonji (JMJ) family of histone demethylases are Fe 2+ - and α-ketoglutarate-dependent
oxygenases that are essential components of regulatory transcriptional chromatin …

From its inception in the 1960s, the major focus of large-scale quantitative investigations of
school effects has been on the issue of equal opportunities in education for disadvantaged …