The paper presents a strategy for designing relational databases with the program FileMaker to study the histories of individuals and organizations. The approach facilitates efficiency in entering data and flexibility for constructing statistical analyses from the raw data. The key feature of...

Scholars and popular writers have written a great deal about entrepreneurs and the formation of new companies, but they have not succeeded in predicting when and where large numbers of new organizations will emerge. This volume attempts, from the viewpoint of the interdisciplinary field of...