Entrepreneurship in Family Firms and Beyond

To explain family firms‘ generation-spanning success, scholars have increasingly been investigating entrepreneurship-related phenomena as corresponding antecedents. Entrepreneurship research beyond the family firm context has been growing significantly over the last decades as well. In both areas, however, numerous important research gaps exist. Referring to entrepreneurship in the family firm context, there is a need to enrich literature on succession/transgenerational entrepreneurship, portfolio entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial strategies and orientations. In the general entrepreneurship context, further insights are needed into employees’ entrepreneurial behavior and individuals’ entrepreneurial intentions. The six journal articles, two conference papers, and two book chapters that are included in this Cumulative Postdoctoral Thesis address those gaps and provide valuable contributions to the respective bodies of literature. As a whole, the publications significantly advance existing knowledge in two very relevant academic fields and open up promising avenues for future research.

A method of measuring the development of the intelligence of young children,

"The article here translated appeared in the Bulletin de la Société libre pour l'étude psychologique de l'enfant,' April 1911." --Translator's pref.

Psychologie du peuple français,

Bibliographical references.

Annales médico psychologiques

Official bulletin of Société médico-psychologique

L'idée d'évolution dans la nature et l'histoire,

1 ptie. Le problème biologique. -- 2 ptie. Le problème psychologique et sociologique: 1 sect. L'histoire et la sociologie. 2 sect. Les transformations du lien social. -- 3 ptie. La conscience et l'explication génétique.

Problèmes actuels de l'économique /

"Numéro spécial de la Revue de métaphysique et de morale (avril-juin 1921)."

Bulletin.

Mode of access: Internet.

Composition of sediments from the Arabian Sea

Thirty seven deep-sea sediment cores from the Arabian Sea were studied geochemically (49 major and trace elements) for four time slices during the Holocene and the last glacial, and in one high sedimentation rate core (century scale resolution) to detect tracers of past variations in the intensity of the atmospheric monsoon circulation and its hydrographic expression in the ocean surface. This geochemical multi-tracer approach, coupled with additional information on the grain size composition of the clastic fraction, the bulk carbonate and biogenic opal contents makes it possible to characterize the sedimentological regime in detail. Sediments characterized by a specific elemental composition (enrichment) originated from the following sources: river suspensions from the Tapti and Narbada, draining the Indian Deccan traps (Ti, Sr); Indus sediments and dust from Rajasthan and Pakistan (Rb, Cs); dust from Iran and the Persian Gulf (Al, Cr); dust from central Arabia (Mg); dust from East Africa and the Red Sea (Zr/Hf, Ti/Al). Corg, Cd, Zn, Ba, Pb, U, and the HREE are associated with the intensity of upwelling in the western Arabian Sea, but only those patterns that are consistently reproduced by all of these elements can be directly linked with the intensity of the southwest monsoon. Relying on information from a single element can be misleading, as each element is affected by various other processes than upwelling intensity and nutrient content of surface water alone. The application of the geochemical multi-tracer approach indicates that the intensity of the southwest monsoon was low during the LGM, declined to a minimum from 15,000-13,000 14C year BP, intensified slightly at the end of this interval, was almost stable during the Bölling, Alleröd and the Younger Dryas, but then intensified in two abrupt successions at the end of the Younger Dryas (9900 14C year BP) and especially in a second event during the early Holocene (8800 14C year BP). Dust discharge by northwesterly winds from Arabia exhibited a similar evolution, but followed an opposite course: high during the LGM with two primary sources-the central Arabian desert and the dry Persian Gulf region. Dust discharge from both regions reached a pronounced maximum at 15,000-13,000 14C year. At the end of this interval, however, the dust plumes from the Persian Gulf area ceased dramatically, whereas dust discharge from central Arabia decreased only slightly. Dust discharge from East Africa and the Red Sea increased synchronously with the two major events of southwest monsoon intensification as recorded in the nutrient content of surface waters. In addition to the tracers of past dust flux and surface water nutrient content, the geochemical multi-tracer approach provides information on the history of deep sea ventilation (Mo, S), which was much lower during the last glacial maximum than during the Holocene. The multi-tracer approach-i.e. a few sedimentological parameters plus a set of geochemical tracers widely available from various multi-element analysis techniques-is a highly applicable technique for studying the complex sedimentation patterns of an ocean basin, and, specifically in the case of the Arabian Sea, can even reveal the seasonal structure of climate change.

Étude sur la prière pour autrui : critiques méthodologiques, épistémologiques et éthiques

Depuis 2000, les études concernant l’efficacité de la prière sur l’amélioration de la santé physique et psychologique des gens pour lesquels on prie se sont multipliées. La consultation de trois banques de données (PsycINFO, Medline, Current Content) a permis de répertorier 189 publications de 1979 à 2007. Outre la méta-analyse de Master, Spielmans et Goodson (2006), nous avons retenu les études qui répondaient aux deux critères suivants: a) la prière pour autrui est utilisée pour traiter un problème de santé physique ou psychologique et b) la présence d’un groupe « de prière » et d’un groupe contrôle. L’analyse des résultats soulève plusieurs questions sur des critères méthodologiques et épistémologiques ainsi que quelques considérations éthiques. Nous discutons en outre de l’éternel antagonisme entre la démarche scientifique et la démarche théologique.