1.What are the independent and dependent variables in this study?

2.What are some of the intervening, extraneous, and moderating variables that the studyattempted to control with its 10-nation design?

3.Can you do a causal study without controlling intervening, extraneous, and moderatingvariables?

4.What is the impact on study results of using national experts (key informants) toidentify and weigh entrepreneurial framework conditions?

5.Can you do a causal study when much of the primary data collected is descriptiveopinion and ordinal or interval data?