Furthermore, during the same period there was an increase in the number of women-owned businesses in the 1-9 and 10-49 employment size categories. The idea that women do not make good entrepreneurs is countered by various facts, such as: "Research by Barclays Bank has revealed there are today nearly a third more women entrepreneurs than there were in 2000,...there are now 150,000 women-run enterprises across the UK, with the south

Entrepreneur? Trends in globalism, stakeholder knowledge and technology -- all part of the 21st century environment, have changed marketing from a more monolithic approach to the market to a model that has actually been in place for centuries yet has now found a way to move from the small business environment to the larger organizational model simply because its strengths are just what is needed to perform in a new

Gartner, on the other hand, appears to focus on his own personal and wide-spread generalizations about the personalities of people from different countries. Worst of all, some of Gartner's beliefs are easily proved wrong. For instance, consider his rhyme: And isn't it an irony, That entrepreneur is "French" in its entirety? To talk about entrepreneurship will always be, An inherently French idea as the field's reality." One would think that the French embody entrepreneurship after

The brand of third world -- or developing countries, it is presumed, have a negative impact on the consumer. Influence may extend, too, to the name of the designer whose name may share connotations with a less desirable country. On the other hand, countries such as America are perceived as wealthy nations, Germany as efficient, France as fashionable, and it may be possible that a designer with a French

Heinrich F. Albert and publicly praised by the propaganda office of the Reich Ministry of Economics, approved an enlargement of the Cologne plant as well as the construction of an assembly factory in Berlin-Johannisthal for trucks and passenger cars (Baldwin, 2001). Thereafter, in June 1938, as a direct signal of approval that Ford cars sold in Germany were finally being made entirely in Germany, the Nazi government placed an

). Then the patient can counsel with their medical profession to find the optimum plan for prevention or pre-treatment; likely catching serious disease early and saving lives. Consumer households -- the toaster can "predict" and toast bread a certain way, or a muffin, or even if one person prefers dark, the other light; the refrigerator can help with meal planning and inventory; the heating and cooling system can gauge the individual's