Edward Rogoff

• Long Island University

Purpose – This empirical study aims to test the impact of four types of entrepreneurial context on the growth and success rates of new ventures in China and related the findings to the theory and practice of entrepreneurship dating back 2,500 years to ancient China. Design/methodology/approach – After describing the business guidelines given by Fa...

This chapter focuses on the importance of the family context from which entrepreneurial behaviors emerge. The importance, role and definitions relative to families and entrepreneurship are explored and critiqued. Then, using data from twenty-eight countries participating in the GEM project in 2008, the chapter analyzes the stratify entrepreneurs in...

This article examines the growing trend of later-life entrepreneurship and the number of opportunities that exist for older people who wish to pursue entrepreneurial activities.

Various doses of either 32P or 198Au were given to Balb/c mice, with autopsies being performed 5, 8, 10, 15, and 90 days later. Control animals received intraperitoneal saline injections. If given in sufficient intraperitoneal doses to mice, both 32P and 198Au can cause morbidity and/or death. The death is related to pathological changes in the gas...

Twelve cases of peritoneal mesothelioma seen at Memorial Hospital, since 1952, are reviewed. Of four patients treated by total abdominal irradiation plus intraperitoneal injection of 32P, two survived more than 10 years and another is alive and well 2 years after treatment. The last patient benefited by more than 1 1/2 years of palliation. All othe...

Radioactive colloids were used to treat Ehrlich ascites tumor in BALB/c mice to determine the optimum treatment times for control of malignant effusions and the relative efficacy of 32P and 189Au. Both colloids were equally effective in curing mice when given within hours after the injection of Ehrlich's cells. Colloids given on the eighth and fift...