The production of rosters, while maintaining the correct level of staff coverage, is a highly complex task and is not amenable to solution by manual methods. It's imperative not to break any employment laws or force staff to continually work undesirable shifts, such as a 7 nights in a row, or late shifts followed by an early the next day.

This study explores the effect of institutional origin ('nurture') and economic context ('nature') on the financial resource endowment and subsequent early employment growth of research-based spin-offs (RBSOs).

I examine the contingent effects of business model design and product market strategy in Technology-Based Firms and their dual antithetical performance implications.

An interesting and practical focus for research on strategic leadership is to seek to understand the consequences of top managers' temporal pattern of activities. Our study fills this void in the particular context of new technology firms operating in dynamic, 'unanalyzable' environments.