The Role of SMEs in Western Economies -- SME Financing: A Life Cycle Approach -- SME Financing: Investigation of Firm and Industry Effects -- SME Owners’ Financing Preferences -- Discussion and Conclusions

This volume includes the full proceedings from the 1987 Minority Marketing Congress held in Greensboro, North Carolina under the theme Minority Marketing: Issues and Prospects. It provides a variety of quality research in the field of minority marketing in order to assimilate and enhance...

Foreword -- Preface -- Marketing Strategies for Reaching Minority Markets -- Redefining Ethnic Market Segmentation -- An Assessment of the Impact of Racially Homogeneous Reference Groups on Strength of Ethnic Affiliation for Black Customers -- Initial Impressions in the Retail Buyer-Seller Dyad...

This insightful new study explores an emerging and growing interest in Sociology and Organization Studies which concerns the meanings and experiences of ‘dirty’ work. Based on a unique study of male street cleaners, refuse collectors, graffiti removers and butchers, and drawing on Bourdieu...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Education and Occupation in India -- Chapter 3: Intergenerational Mobility -- Chapter 4: Inertia across Generations -- Chapter 5: Regional Dimensions of Mobility -- Chapter 6: Intergenerational Mobility: Micro Level Study -- Chapter 7: State Support and...

This book analyzes the recent development of Gulf capitalism through to the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. Situating the Gulf within the evolution of capitalism at a global scale, it presents a novel theoretical interpretation of this important region of the Middle East political economy

The traditional Marxian picture of a two-class polarisation seems far removed from today's diverse society. Re-examining the very foundations of the Marxian theory in the process, the author argues that important critiques can fruitfully be understood and to accomplish the goal, he extends the...

This book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and...

Part I: Theory of Ecological Economics -- Introduction -- 1. The Economic System and the Environment -- 2. Industrial Ecology: Material and Energy Flows, Life Cycle Analysis -- 3. The Big Picture Vision and the Environment: An International Perspective -- 4. Economic Valuation and Decision...

Model of OIP lifecycle management and activities in each phase -- Process of designing an OIP from a socio-technical perspective -- Challenges in the lifecycle of OIPs and mechanisms to address them.-Typology of OIP projects -- Functions of open innovation intermediaries