scholarly journals From an Alternative to a Precarious Family Form? The Changing Role of Education in Nonmarital Childbearing in Germany

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 611-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Konietzka ◽  
Michaela Kreyenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Nonmarital Childbearing ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Family Form ◽  
Western Germany ◽  
German Microcensus ◽  
Nonmarital Births ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Marital Union ◽  
Do So

Abstract This paper examines the association of education and family forms based on data of the German microcensus 1996–2012. The investigation shows that highly educated women in western Germany had a higher probability of living in a nonmarital instead of a marital union. With an increase in the share of nonmarital births, the association has reversed. Likewise, the highly educated couples were initially the vanguards of living in nonmarital unions with children, but they are nowadays the least likely to do so. Patterns differ between eastern and western Germany, though.

What is it That Entrepreneurs Learn from Experience?

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 505-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Martin ◽  
Ronnie Smith
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Do So

The issue of whether or not entrepreneurs really learn from experience has been one of the key themes of entrepreneurship research. If they do learn from experience, what do they learn? The importance of knowledge and learning to the performance of a business has been highlighted by many authors, who emphasize the role of life cycle, learning from mentors, experience and/or critical incidents. This paper reports on a series of interviews with mature and experienced entrepreneurs in Scotland who have been directly involved, for a substantial time, with significant business successes and failures. It is argued that prior knowledge and ongoing learning play a key role in the founder's ability to deal with the changing role they have and to acquire the necessary skills to grow the business. The crucial issue is how learning can be supported in the context of start-up and existing entrepreneurial businesses. To address this, the authors present a conceptual model made up of four elements: experience, learning, knowledge and business performance. It is concluded that entrepreneurs take time to develop their skills and need to be given the opportunity to do so if successful start-ups are to be achieved. In the main, the skills they develop in people selection and team building seem to be key determinants of their success.

The changing role of the dental dean

1969 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-360
Author(s):  
JA DiBiaggio
Keyword(s):  
Changing Role

A Re-Appraisal of the Role of Blood Coagulation and Platelets in the Generalized Shwartzman Phenomenon

1966 ◽  
Vol 15 (03/04) ◽  
pp. 519-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Levin ◽  
E Beck
Keyword(s):  
Blood Coagulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Coagulation System ◽  
Renal Lesions ◽  
Intravascular Coagulation ◽  
Renal Glomeruli ◽  
Coagulation Mechanism ◽  
Shwartzman Phenomenon ◽  
Do So

SummaryThe role of intravascular coagulation in the production of the generalized Shwartzman phenomenon has been evaluated. The administration of endotoxin to animals prepared with Thorotrast results in activation of the coagulation mechanism with the resultant deposition of fibrinoid material in the renal glomeruli. Anticoagulation prevents alterations in the state of the coagulation system and inhibits development of the renal lesions. Platelets are not primarily involved. Platelet antiserum produces similar lesions in animals prepared with Thorotrast, but appears to do so in a manner which does not significantly involve intravascular coagulation.The production of adrenal cortical hemorrhage, comparable to that seen in the Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, following the administration of endotoxin to animals that had previously received ACTH does not require intravascular coagulation and may not be a manifestation of the generalized Shwartzman phenomenon.

Convergence of Corporate Governance Models

2004 ◽  
pp. 129-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Tretyakov
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Commodity Markets ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
National Institutions ◽  
Governance Models ◽  
Changing Role

The article focuses on the analysis of the process of convergence of outsider and insider models of corporate governance. Chief characteristics of basic and intermediate systems of corporate governance as well as the changing role of its main agents are under examination. Globalization of financial and commodity markets, convergence of legal systems, an open exchange of ideas and information are the driving forces of the convergence of basic systems of corporate governance. However the convergence does not imply the unification of institutional environment and national institutions of corporate governance.

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