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Segmentation strategies for non‐profits: mining the emerging market of “black gold”
McKinley‐Floyd, Lydia; Shrestha, Nanda - In: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 23 (2008) 6, pp. 416-428
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to present a strategic conceptual framework for targeting and mining the emerging market segment of Black philanthropy (black gold). Design/methodology/approach – This strategic and normative conceptualization utilizes a socio‐historical and...
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Problem‐solving techniques of growing very small businesses
Perks, S. - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 4 (2010) 3, pp. 220-233
Purpose – The paper aims to investigate the problems experienced and problem‐solving techniques of very small businesses during growth. Evidence shows that if managers can understand the potential for growth and the barriers in their own business path, they will be able to address the...
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Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic female business owners
Davidson, Marilyn J.; Fielden, Sandra L.; Omar, Azura - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 16 (2010) 1, pp. 58-80
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the positive and negative effects of gender and ethnicity in relation to discrimination and the problems encountered in accessing social support (including emotional and instrumental support). Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative data...
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Supporting black businesses: narratives of support providers in London
Nwankwo, Sonny; Akunuri, Jaya; Madichie, Nnamdi O. - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 16 (2010) 6, pp. 561-580
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how narrative discourses frames entrepreneurial knowledge – in the form of understandings and meanings – focusing the role of business support in stimulating black entrepreneurship. It reveals the assumptions and values associated with...
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Contextualising migrant black business women ' s work-life balance experiences
Forson, Cynthia - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & … 19 (2013) 5, pp. 460-477
and dialogue between notions of motherhood, femininity, family and entrepreneurship at the societal, institutional and …
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Family structure, Afro‐Euro inequality and economic justice
Shulman, Steven - In: International Journal of Social Economics 28 (2001) 10/11/12, pp. 1003-1024
two‐fifths of the Afro‐Euro family income gap. Examines the empirical objections to the conclusion that family structure … normative and more important objection that the family structure argument undercuts the struggle to achieve economic justice for … Afro‐Americans. Argues that an emphasis on family structure does not absolve society of responsibility for inequality, nor …
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Determinants of the Prison Population: An Empirical Analysis
Cameron, Samuel - In: International Journal of Social Economics 16 (1989) 8, pp. 17-25
A cross‐section of 1980 US data on the prison population and its rate of inflow is examined. Regression analysis is used to investigate the impact of prison overcrowding, race, crime and unemployment on the above variables. Racial composition and overcrowding are found to have significant...
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History of US public administration in the Progressive era
Lee, Mordecai - In: Journal of Management History 17 (2011) 1, pp. 88-101
Purpose – Histories of American public administration during the Progressive era (1890‐1920) tend to highlight the positive contributions of its major founders, skimming lightly over nativist, anti‐democratic and racial writings. The purpose of this paper is to broaden the given narrative...
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Outsiders within: non-conformity among four contemporary black female managers in South Africa
Canham, Hugo - In: Gender in Management: An International Journal 29 (2014) 3, pp. 148-170
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to foreground non-conformity in organisational life as it relates to black female managers. My intervention here is to problematise organisational theory in relation to its limited ability to engage with affect and to point to a more generative framework....
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Marketing to the African Segment of the South African Market
Staude, G.E. - In: European Journal of Marketing 12 (1978) 6, pp. 400-412
Compares South Africa's dualistic economy of two economic subsystems — one is an industrialised system, the other a subsistence one. Discusses the four main population groups in the heterogeneous systems, Bantu, Whites, Coloureds and Asians, using tables to show these fully. Looks further at...
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