Probability Of Long-term Success Research Articles

Gestation in new technology ventures: Causal brakes and effectual pedals

ABSTRACT Gestation speed has long been acknowledged as an important proximate measure of venture performance. Yet, research into its antecedents remains scarce. Through a longitudinal study of eight new technology ventures, we examine in-depth the relationships between the use of causal and effectual logics and gestation speed. Our data show that heuristics from both logics can act as pedals or brakes on gestation speed. However, we also find that nascent entrepreneurs who apply effectuation as their predominant decision-making logic gestate more quickly than their peers. The inductive model we develop from the findings offers nine mechanisms relating decision heuristics to proximate performance. Additional longitudinal data provide evidence for a positive relationship between higher gestation speed and the probability of long-term success.

The Long-Term Follow-up and Support for Living Organ Donors: A Center-Based Initiative Founded on Developing a Community of Living Donors.

Transplant professionals recognize that the long-term follow-up of living organ donors is a priority, yet there has been no implemented solution to this problem. This critical gap is essential, because the transplant field is now emphasizing living donation as a means to address the organ shortage. We detail our living donor initiative, which sets several priorities we recognize as fundamental to persons who have donated organs at our transplant center. This intervention attempts to mitigate the donor and center factors that are known to contribute to the lack of long-term follow-up. Beyond that, our goals are aimed at providing ongoing engagement, wellness, clinical data accrual, laboratory follow-up, and social support for our living donors, in continuity. Our ultimate goal is to nurture the development of local living donor community networks by providing social engagement for current and past donors, which also serves as a platform for greater population education on the societal importance of living donation. This initiative is based on joint recognition by our transplant team and our hospital leadership that supporting the long-term welfare of living donors is essential to accomplishing the goal of expanding living donor transplantation. The transplant team and hospital missions are aligned, and both contribute resources to the initiative.

Is an Ecological Understanding a Prerequisite for Pest Management?

Integrated pest management (IPM) is the current paradigm for dealing with pests; thus, it is prudent to inquire whether IPM will have a higher probability of long term success than other approaches which have failed. This paper is an attempt to compare the principles of IPM to the current control practices and to examine management approaches in two cropping systems. Primary objectives are to show that agriculturists are far from implementing programs that will solve pest problems and that such solutions will arise only from an ecologically sound foundation.