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Objective The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of N-acetylcysteine (NAC)-enriched storage medium on fresh osteochondral viability at 4°C. Our hypothesis was that the cell viability of chondrocytes obtained from human osteochondral tissue and stored at 4°C significantly improves in...

Introduction: Levator trauma is a risk factor for the development of pelvic organ prolapse. We aimed to identify antenatal predictors for significant damage to the levator ani muscle during a first vaginal delivery. Material and Methods: A retrospective observational study utilizing data from ...

In the last years the rate of obesity is increasing dramatically in many Latin-American countries. For improving the outcome of the treatment, some of the public hospitals and private clinics created obesity units with clinical experts on that field. For many of the patients attending to those cl...

In social entrepreneurship, social and economic missions co-exist in a tensioned balance. At times, business survival requires reprioritizing objectives, leading social entrepreneurs to drift away from social values in pursuit of commercial gains. This requires (re)balancing acts aimed at mitigat...

The sharing economy has emerged in recent years as a disruptive approach to traditional business models. While relevant and conceptually appealing, there is a lack of clarity about what distinguishes the sharing economy from other platform enterprises. In this paper, we seek to solve this problem...

In this paper, we examine how entrepreneurs living in communities under continuous threat prepare themselves to continue with their enterprising activities or engage in new ones after the expected crisis occurs. Most of the crisis literature on disasters and entrepreneurship focuses on aftermath ...

In the collective imagination, the practices and outcomes of social entrepreneurship seem to hold hope for a better future. So far, these practices have been largely assumed as idealized types with the ‘social’ in social entrepreneurship under explored. Such assumed neutrality, we argue, is hampe...

In this article, we seek to open a debate within entrepreneurship scholarship around a prevailing reductionist view of the phenomenon when it comes to non-western or alternative contexts. We argue it is incapable of capturing behavioral differences across contexts without making ethnocentric, nar...

Mindfulness, meaning a receptive attention to and awareness of present events and experience, is reported to have a wide range of benefits, but it has been suggested that it could prove costly in terms of task performance. This article analyzes how dispositional mindfulness relates to taking entr...

The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the articles presented in the special issue “Advancing Sustainable Entrepreneurship Through Substantive Research”. The special issue is inspired by the need to understand determinants, processes and consequences of sustainable entrepreneurial...