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Entrepreneurship and Religion
Korean Immigrants in Houston, Texas
AvVictoria Hyonchu Kwon
Inbunden, Engelska, 1997
2 547 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Focusing on settlement patterns among Houston's Korean immigrants, this study examines in ethnographic detail the mutually beneficial relationship between the Korean business community and church groups. It explore historical background and social and demographic characteristics of the group to provide a broader context in explaining their entrepreneurial and religious behaviors. The study shows that economic and social changes during and after the oil boom in Houston had a direct effect on the emergence of the Korean business community. Churches with a highly developed structural linkage through cell group ministry also facilitate business contacts among parishioners. Embracing a majority of Korean community members as parishioners, the churches perform social functions that are indispensable to the Korean immigrants.
Rise of Hotel Chains in the United States, 1896-1980
AvPaul L. Ingram
Inbunden, Engelska, 1996
3 108 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This title combines history, organizational theory and statistical analysis to examine how chains have come to dominate the hotel industry over the past century. It provides information and insight not only on a major American industry, but also on the rise of chains - a phenomenon increasingly affecting many other industries.
African American Entrepreneurship in Richmond, 1890-1940
The Funeral Industry and the Story of R.C. Scott
AvMichael A. Plater
Inbunden, Engelska, 1996
3 108 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Polish Entrepreneurs and American Entrepreneurs
A Comparative Study of Role Motivations
AvJohn O'Del
Inbunden, Engelska, 1997
1 862 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
First published in 1997. Entrepreneurial activity in Poland has contributed to the economic revival of the nation and, arguably, to the 'social net' of Poland. In an effort to gain a greater understanding of the entrepreneur in Poland, this book offers a comparison of Polish entrepreneurs and American entrepreneurs while giving attention to the potential influence of the political-social context of the environment in which the entrepreneur was raised. The regimen of a command economic system is considered as well as its possible impact on the entrepreneur.
Women Entrepreneurs
Developing Leadership for Success
AvSandra J. Wells,Stuart Bruchey
Inbunden, Engelska, 1997
775 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
First Published in 1998. Female entrepreneurs represent a rapidly growing element of corporate America, as evidenced in The National Women's Business Council's 1991 Annual Report to the President of the United States and Congress. Given that so much of the business of America is composed of organizations started and run by women, a sobering statistic presented in the same report attests to the failure rate of these businesses: women-owned businesses fail at a rate seven to eleven percent higher than businesses owned by men. Given the theoretical foundation of the nature of adult learning, this research explored the phenomenon of learning for a select group of adult learners, a group of successful female entrepreneurs.
African American Economic Development and Small Business Ownership
AvKilolo Kijakazi
Inbunden, Engelska, 1997
3 094 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
First Published in 1997. This book examines the history of economic development in the African American community and the use of entrepreneurship to improve the economic well-being of its members. The research in this book improves upon previous studies by analyzing factors related to business success by industry and region. Finally, this book sets forth for policy makers recommendations soundly based on a comprehensive understanding of the history and dynamics of African American enterprise.
Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Networks and Ethnic Resources
AvJin-Kyung Yoo
Inbunden, Engelska, 1998
2 703 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book examines the advantages and disadvantages of Korean immigrant entrepreneurs in the mainstream labor market. Immigrants to the U.S. have historically pursued entrepreneurship as a means of achieving economic affluence. Among immigrants since the 1965 Immigration Amendment Act, Koreans have one of the highest rates of entrepreneurship. This study investigates various structural elements, including enclave and non-enclave economies, to uncover interconnections with personal advantages such as capacities for resource mobilization through networks and human capital utilized to establish businesses. The results show that networks are the most prominent resources that Korean immigrants use for business establishment. However, networks are divided into two elements: family and social. The examination of both types of networks shows how they operate differently and generate different intrinsic to business establishment. Although previous studies have recognized the economic advantages of immigrants with higher educational backgrounds, this study further demonstrates how higher human capital is utilized through network establishment to benefit business establishment. Also, counter to traditional belief, it is found that ethnic resources are not especially crucial resources for starting a business, but are useful after businesses are established.
Entrepreneurial Training for the Unemployed
Lessons from the Field
AvVictoria Singer
Inbunden, Engelska, 1999
2 520 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
First Published in 1999. This title examines one publicly funded training program by describing the complex, dynamic process of fostering small business ownership. This case study focuses on the behaviors and environments that influence entrepreneurial success and show how a teaching methodology can contribute to an environment that encourages entrepreneurship. This study provides, not only an example of the efficacy of entrepreneurial training but suggests findings beyond business start-up as measures of program results.
Racial Discrimination and Minority Business Enterprise
Evidence from the 1990 Census
AvJon S. Wainwright
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
3 018 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Using a large microdata sample from the most recent decennial census, this book documents the economic disparities facing minority-owned business owners relative to non-minorities. The book incorporates a wide range of geographic and industrial categories and demonstrates that these disparities persist even when other important factors such as education, experience, wealth and family structure are held constant. Self-employed business owners comprise an important and growing sector of the U.S. economy. In contrast to wage workers, the issue of discrimination against minority business owners has received little attention from economists. However, recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have made the continued constitutionality of affirmative action in public sector purchasing and contracting contingent upon documenting the existence of discrimination against such businesses within relevant geographic or industrial boundaries. The author shows that among prime working age males, being an entrepreneur is a relatively more lucrative form of employment, on average, than working for a wage. Typically, however, non-Hispanic whites become entrepreneurs at much higher rates and receive much higher earnings than their black, Hispanic, and Native American counterparts. The author's findings of racial and ethnic disparities are strongest for black and Native American entrepreneurs. Positive levels of discrimination facing Hispanic and Asian entrepreneurs are also documented. The book also includes discussion of relevant Supreme Court decisions, how economists attempt to measure discrimination and the major sources of data available for studying minority business enterprise.
Management Aptitude of Entrepreneurs
AvDan J. Knutson
Inbunden, Engelska, 1999
3 094 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
First Published in 2000. The basic problems investigated in this book arose from the author's speculation that many individuals who have what it takes to be an entrepreneur may simply not have what it takes to be an effective manager. In fact, some of the characteristics that are essential to the entrepreneurial drive may be detrimental to the development of solid management skills. This may be one reason that so many entrepreneurs fail in business-- Certain elements in their personality make-up may actually prevent them from being, or even becoming, good managers.The overall objective of the study was to learn if there is a significant relationship between entrepreneurs and professional managers in terms of their basic aptitudes toward managing. The research was carried out by examining a number of the most important underpinning psychosocial aspects that have been demonstrated as valid predictors of management performance.
Doing Business in Minority Markets
Black and Korean Entrepreneurs in Chicago's Ethnic Beauty Aids Industry
AvRobert Mark Silverman
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
982 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book examines black and Korean entrepreneurship in Chicago's ethnic beauty aids industry. In the case of each entrepreneurial group, business activities are heavily influenced by the economic conditions found on the South Side of Chicago. For instance, both groups provide goods and services to black consumers, both groups modify their business practices in response to the depressed incomes and disinvestment in the communities where they are located, and both groups mobilize resources based on ethnicity and social class in order to overcome the economic constraints found in the market setting where their businesses operate. This book is unique for two reasons. First, it examines the context of black and Korean entrepreneurship from an historical and sociological perspective. Through this approach, continuity and change in entrepreneurial behavior is identified. Second, it examined black and Korean Entrepreneurship within the context of a single industry, the ethnic beauty aids industry. This approach allows for a thorough analysis of networks and organizational interactions between black and Korean entrepreneurs at all levels of this industry manufacturing, distribution, and retailing. The findings in this book add to existing research on Entrepreneurship in minority communities, and offer a reformulation of theories concerning middleman minority groups, black Entrepreneurship, and economic under development.
Gendered Capital
Entrepreneurial Women in American Enterprise
AvSally Ann Davies-Netzley
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
1 498 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book makes an important contribution by comparing the experiences of white and Latina women who own and operate businesses in the U.S. economy. While accounting for the significance of gender, ethnicity, and social class, Davies-Netzley explores the various pathways that women take to becoming entrepreneurs and the economic, social, and cultural capital they use along the way.
Managing Our Margins
Women Entrepreneurs in the Suburbs
AvKimberly A. Reed
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
2 100 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Many women seek to achieve greater control over their working lives by making a transition to entrepreneurship and, as a result, must negotiate gender norms and gender-related expectations in both business and personal relationships. Based on interviews with women in the New Jersey suburbs, this book explores the range of uncertainties and practical dilemmas independent businesswomen face today.
Entrepreneurship and Religion
Korean Immigrants in Houston, Texas
AvVictoria Hyonchu Kwon
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
896 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Focusing on settlement patterns among Houston's Korean immigrants, this study examines in ethnographic detail the mutually beneficial relationship between the Korean business community and church groups. It explore historical background and social and demographic characteristics of the group to provide a broader context in explaining their entrepreneurial and religious behaviors. The study shows that economic and social changes during and after the oil boom in Houston had a direct effect on the emergence of the Korean business community. Churches with a highly developed structural linkage through cell group ministry also facilitate business contacts among parishioners. Embracing a majority of Korean community members as parishioners, the churches perform social functions that are indispensable to the Korean immigrants.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance
Samuel P. Black, Jr. and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923-1961
AvSamuel P. Black,John Paul Rossi
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
731 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Entrepreneurs play a central role in economic growth and development, but how they do so is the subject of considerable debate. This book explains that process through an historical case study of an automobile insurance entrepreneur, Samuel P. Black, Jr., and Erie Insurance, the company he helped build. It also recounts the largely untold history of American automobile insurance. One of this study's central themes is the role of innovation in the entrepreneurial process. The rise of Erie Insurance from a four-person enterprise in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1925 to the fourteenth largest property-casualty insurer today was the result, in part, of Black's relentless push to innovate. His continual efforts to cut costs, develop new products, satisfy customers, increase sales, and improve operations, all contributed greatly to the company's growth. A second theme is the automobile's dramatic impact on modern America. Its takeover of mass transportation provided the basis for the development of the automobile insurance industry and created many of the opportunities that Black and Erie Insurance capitalized on. These themes combine in the history of Black and Erie Insurance to illuminate the dynamic process by which the cultural, social, economic, and technological environment creates opportunities that entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial firms exploit, and how entrepreneurial actions stimulate economic growth.
Managing Our Margins
Women Entrepreneurs in the Suburbs
AvKimberly A. Reed
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
583 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Many women seek to achieve greater control over their working lives by making a transition to entrepreneurship and, as a result, must negotiate gender norms and gender-related expectations in both business and personal relationships. Based on interviews with women in the New Jersey suburbs, this book explores the range of uncertainties and practical dilemmas independent businesswomen face today.
Gendered Capital
Entrepreneurial Women in American Enterprise
AvSally Ann Davies-Netzley
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book makes an important contribution by comparing the experiences of white and Latina women who own and operate businesses in the U.S. economy. While accounting for the significance of gender, ethnicity, and social class, Davies-Netzley explores the various pathways that women take to becoming entrepreneurs and the economic, social, and cultural capital they use along the way.
African American Economic Development and Small Business Ownership
AvKilolo Kijakazi
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
810 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
First Published in 1997. This book examines the history of economic development in the African American community and the use of entrepreneurship to improve the economic well-being of its members. The research in this book improves upon previous studies by analyzing factors related to business success by industry and region. Finally, this book sets forth for policy makers recommendations soundly based on a comprehensive understanding of the history and dynamics of African American enterprise.
Entrepreneurial Training for the Unemployed
Lessons from the Field
AvVictoria Singer
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
536 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
First Published in 1999. This title examines one publicly funded training program by describing the complex, dynamic process of fostering small business ownership. This case study focuses on the behaviors and environments that influence entrepreneurial success and show how a teaching methodology can contribute to an environment that encourages entrepreneurship. This study provides, not only an example of the efficacy of entrepreneurial training but suggests findings beyond business start-up as measures of program results.
Polish Entrepreneurs and American Entrepreneurs
A Comparative Study of Role Motivations
AvJohn O'Del
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
552 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
First published in 1997. Entrepreneurial activity in Poland has contributed to the economic revival of the nation and, arguably, to the 'social net' of Poland. In an effort to gain a greater understanding of the entrepreneur in Poland, this book offers a comparison of Polish entrepreneurs and American entrepreneurs while giving attention to the potential influence of the political-social context of the environment in which the entrepreneur was raised. The regimen of a command economic system is considered as well as its possible impact on the entrepreneur.
Racial Discrimination and Minority Business Enterprise
Evidence from the 1990 Census
AvJon S. Wainwright
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
810 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Using a large microdata sample from the most recent decennial census, this book documents the economic disparities facing minority-owned business owners relative to non-minorities. The book incorporates a wide range of geographic and industrial categories and demonstrates that these disparities persist even when other important factors such as education, experience, wealth and family structure are held constant. Self-employed business owners comprise an important and growing sector of the U.S. economy. In contrast to wage workers, the issue of discrimination against minority business owners has received little attention from economists. However, recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have made the continued constitutionality of affirmative action in public sector purchasing and contracting contingent upon documenting the existence of discrimination against such businesses within relevant geographic or industrial boundaries. The author shows that among prime working age males, being an entrepreneur is a relatively more lucrative form of employment, on average, than working for a wage. Typically, however, non-Hispanic whites become entrepreneurs at much higher rates and receive much higher earnings than their black, Hispanic, and Native American counterparts. The author's findings of racial and ethnic disparities are strongest for black and Native American entrepreneurs. Positive levels of discrimination facing Hispanic and Asian entrepreneurs are also documented. The book also includes discussion of relevant Supreme Court decisions, how economists attempt to measure discrimination and the major sources of data available for studying minority business enterprise.
Women and Business Ownership
Entrepreneurs in Dallas
AvAlicia S. Lupinacci
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
710 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
First Published in 1998. This book explores the preparation for entrepreneurship, issues of family and work, and satisfaction levels of a sample of women business owners in Dallas County, Texas. Is gender inequality in access to managerial jobs and associated rewards what compels women to start their own businesses? This study asks and answers this question for a diverse sample of women entrepreneurs. This book directs our attention to this high growth employment area for women and enhances our understanding of the experiences of women entrepreneurs.
Women Entrepreneurs
Developing Leadership for Success
AvSandra J. Wells,Stuart Bruchey
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
376 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
First Published in 1998. Female entrepreneurs represent a rapidly growing element of corporate America, as evidenced in The National Women's Business Council's 1991 Annual Report to the President of the United States and Congress. Given that so much of the business of America is composed of organizations started and run by women, a sobering statistic presented in the same report attests to the failure rate of these businesses: women-owned businesses fail at a rate seven to eleven percent higher than businesses owned by men. Given the theoretical foundation of the nature of adult learning, this research explored the phenomenon of learning for a select group of adult learners, a group of successful female entrepreneurs.
African American Entrepreneurship in Richmond, 1890-1940
The Funeral Industry and the Story of R.C. Scott
AvMichael A. Plater
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
805 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Networks and Ethnic Resources
AvJin-Kyung Yoo
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
810 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book examines the advantages and disadvantages of Korean immigrant entrepreneurs in the mainstream labor market. Immigrants to the U.S. have historically pursued entrepreneurship as a means of achieving economic affluence. Among immigrants since the 1965 Immigration Amendment Act, Koreans have one of the highest rates of entrepreneurship. This study investigates various structural elements, including enclave and non-enclave economies, to uncover interconnections with personal advantages such as capacities for resource mobilization through networks and human capital utilized to establish businesses. The results show that networks are the most prominent resources that Korean immigrants use for business establishment. However, networks are divided into two elements: family and social. The examination of both types of networks shows how they operate differently and generate different intrinsic to business establishment. Although previous studies have recognized the economic advantages of immigrants with higher educational backgrounds, this study further demonstrates how higher human capital is utilized through network establishment to benefit business establishment. Also, counter to traditional belief, it is found that ethnic resources are not especially crucial resources for starting a business, but are useful after businesses are established.
Entrepreneurial Teams as Determinants of New Venture Performance
AvMichael D. Ensley
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
539 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Using a multi-dimensional model of the author's own design, this study explores the effect of entrepreneurial team behavior on both organizational strategy and new venture performance. In line with recent research arguing that the entrepreneur may well be a group and not simply an individual, and to provide a much richer and more widely applicable model, this book examines the entrepreneurial team.
Management Aptitude of Entrepreneurs
AvDan J. Knutson
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
787 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
First Published in 2000. The basic problems investigated in this book arose from the author's speculation that many individuals who have what it takes to be an entrepreneur may simply not have what it takes to be an effective manager. In fact, some of the characteristics that are essential to the entrepreneurial drive may be detrimental to the development of solid management skills. This may be one reason that so many entrepreneurs fail in business-- Certain elements in their personality make-up may actually prevent them from being, or even becoming, good managers.The overall objective of the study was to learn if there is a significant relationship between entrepreneurs and professional managers in terms of their basic aptitudes toward managing. The research was carried out by examining a number of the most important underpinning psychosocial aspects that have been demonstrated as valid predictors of management performance.
Do Skills Predict Profits
A Study of Successful Entrepreneurship
AvLanny Herron
Inbunden, Engelska, 1994
1 570 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Originally published in 1994, ‘Do Skills Predict Profits, A Study of Successful Entrepreneurship’ is a study into the progress made by academic researchers in management over the last 15 years in determining the causes of new venture performance. The author notes that most of this research has concentrated on the effects of strategy and industry structure on new venture performance. This research looks to answer two major questions: 1.Do characteristics of the entrepreneur have a significant impact upon new venture performance in addition to strategy and industry structure? If so, what characteristics are important and what is their relationship with new venture performance?
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance
Samuel P. Black, Jr. and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923-1961
AvSamuel P. Black,John Paul Rossi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
1 706 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Entrepreneurs play a central role in economic growth and development, but how they do so is the subject of considerable debate. This book explains that process through an historical case study of an automobile insurance entrepreneur, Samuel P. Black, Jr., and Erie Insurance, the company he helped build. It also recounts the largely untold history of American automobile insurance. One of this study's central themes is the role of innovation in the entrepreneurial process. The rise of Erie Insurance from a four-person enterprise in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1925 to the fourteenth largest property-casualty insurer today was the result, in part, of Black's relentless push to innovate. His continual efforts to cut costs, develop new products, satisfy customers, increase sales, and improve operations, all contributed greatly to the company's growth. A second theme is the automobile's dramatic impact on modern America. Its takeover of mass transportation provided the basis for the development of the automobile insurance industry and created many of the opportunities that Black and Erie Insurance capitalized on. These themes combine in the history of Black and Erie Insurance to illuminate the dynamic process by which the cultural, social, economic, and technological environment creates opportunities that entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial firms exploit, and how entrepreneurial actions stimulate economic growth.
Women and Business Ownership
Entrepreneurs in Dallas
AvAlicia S. Lupinacci
Inbunden, Engelska, 1998
1 525 kr
Tillfälligt slut
First Published in 1998. This book explores the preparation for entrepreneurship, issues of family and work, and satisfaction levels of a sample of women business owners in Dallas County, Texas. Is gender inequality in access to managerial jobs and associated rewards what compels women to start their own businesses? This study asks and answers this question for a diverse sample of women entrepreneurs. This book directs our attention to this high growth employment area for women and enhances our understanding of the experiences of women entrepreneurs.

Garland Studies in Entrepreneurship – serie

Entrepreneurship and Religion

Rise of Hotel Chains in the United States, 1896-1980

African American Entrepreneurship in Richmond, 1890-1940

Polish Entrepreneurs and American Entrepreneurs

Women Entrepreneurs

African American Economic Development and Small Business Ownership

Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurial Training for the Unemployed

Racial Discrimination and Minority Business Enterprise

Management Aptitude of Entrepreneurs

Doing Business in Minority Markets

Gendered Capital

Managing Our Margins

Entrepreneurship and Religion

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance

Managing Our Margins

Gendered Capital

African American Economic Development and Small Business Ownership

Entrepreneurial Training for the Unemployed

Polish Entrepreneurs and American Entrepreneurs

Racial Discrimination and Minority Business Enterprise

Women and Business Ownership

Women Entrepreneurs

African American Entrepreneurship in Richmond, 1890-1940

Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurial Teams as Determinants of New Venture Performance

Management Aptitude of Entrepreneurs

Do Skills Predict Profits

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance

Women and Business Ownership