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Publication date: 14 December 2018

Marino A. Bruce and Darnell F. Hawkins

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Inequality, Crime, and Health Among African American Males
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ISBN: 978-1-78635-051-0

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Publication date: 1 July 1969

James Render

We are precious few in number. Naturally the editor of this worthy journal counts; playing it safe, so I am sure do most of its readers. To play it even safer I had better include…

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We are precious few in number. Naturally the editor of this worthy journal counts; playing it safe, so I am sure do most of its readers. To play it even safer I had better include my own worthy newspapers' bosses—and publisher — MP Mr Robert Maxwell, who at the present rate of projected take‐over is about to become the new Lord of the Sun and a few other things besides. Throw in a handful of others … Our Harold, hallowed is his name (though not to many these days), Ted Heath, but not, for goodness sake, Mr Jeremy Thorpe or the latest would‐be party leader Mr Desmond Donnelly, and that's it. There you have the specially gifted, the super élite, the gold‐capped cream of the nation. (No wonder we sing to God to save the Queen!).

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Education + Training, vol. 11 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 February 1975

R.M. THORPE and B. WHITTINGTON

In the past few years a new debate has started and blossomed among those concerned with British university administration. It has centred around the lack of specific provision of…

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In the past few years a new debate has started and blossomed among those concerned with British university administration. It has centred around the lack of specific provision of training for university administrators. This research is a reflection of this debate. In an attempt to provide, firstly, information which would facilitate the construction of a course appropriate for “middle grade” administrators and, secondly, knowledge of a more general kind on the weaknesses of present administrator training, the authors carried out an attitudinal survey by postal questionnaire of 52 university and university college institutions in Britain. Interest focussed upon the training needs perceived by middle range administrators. This information was used to construct a course for these administrators which was offered at the University of Bradford in September 1973. Further, biographical and attitudinal data were used to attempt to explain variations in perceived training need. A consideration of several propositions suggested to explain such apparent variations served to indicate the evident need for more training in these techniques, either through the perceived need of a majority of respondents, or through the respondents' self confessed lack of knowledge about the applicability of these techniques. The authors conclude with a call for more non‐survey data based research into training needs and the expansion of specific university administrative training in management techniques.

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Journal of Educational Administration, vol. 13 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0957-8234

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Publication date: 10 August 2017

Kathryn Freeman Anderson

Scholarship has demonstrated important consequences of segregation on health and health care outcomes, yet the mechanisms behind this association remain poorly understood. Several…

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Scholarship has demonstrated important consequences of segregation on health and health care outcomes, yet the mechanisms behind this association remain poorly understood. Several recent studies have shown inequities in the distribution of a wide variety of health-related organizations across urban neighborhoods, which may account for some portion of this negative health association. Though, within this literature, relatively little attention has been given to the distribution of health care facilities in particular.

Here, I consider how segregation is related to the distribution of several auxiliary health care practitioners in a series of spatial regression models of zip codes across the United States using data from the 2010 US Census and County Business Patterns (CBP).

I find that both Black and Latino segregation is negatively related to the density of a number of auxiliary health care practitioners, including mental health providers, dentists, physical/occupational/speech therapists, chiropractors, optometrists, podiatrists, and miscellaneous health care practitioners. However, this association is reduced (in certain instances to non-significance) with the inclusion of socioeconomic indicators, chiefly the percent of college educated individuals and the unemployment rate of the zip code. This is association is reduced for both Black and Latino segregation, with a larger reduction in the size of the effects for Latino segregation.

This research suggests that segregation plays an important role in the distribution of health care facilities, but that policy and public health interventions should focus on the intersection between racial residential segregation and socioeconomic considerations.

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Health and Health Care Concerns Among Women and Racial and Ethnic Minorities
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ISBN: 978-1-78743-150-8

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Publication date: 13 October 2016

Tim C. Hasenpusch and Sabine Baumann

The fast-changing, highly competitive and technology-driven business environment forces established firms to continually search for new business opportunities and innovative…

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The fast-changing, highly competitive and technology-driven business environment forces established firms to continually search for new business opportunities and innovative ideas. In reaction, corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Cisco and Bertelsmann have launched new corporate venture capital (CVC) units or have intensified existing CVC activities. This chapter examines the structure, patterns and investment focus of telecommunication, IT, consumer electronics and media & entertainment firms’ CVC investments by conducting a data-mining project based on the Thomson Reuters Private Equity database. The data-mining project reveals the increasing importance of CVC activities as a strategic development tool to address the requirements of the increasing costs, speed and complexity of a technology-driven industry since the bursting of the Internet bubble. Therefore, following chapter is one of the first CVC studies to describe and compare CVC investments of the last CVC wave across industry sectors.

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Mergers and Acquisitions, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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ISBN: 978-1-78635-371-9

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Publication date: 13 April 2022

Martin J Gannon, Babak Taheri and Jaylan Azer

Understanding the most appropriate research philosophy to underpin any piece of scholarly inquiry is crucial if one hopes to address research problems in a manner distinct from…

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Understanding the most appropriate research philosophy to underpin any piece of scholarly inquiry is crucial if one hopes to address research problems in a manner distinct from those already evidenced across extant literature. Distinct philosophical ideas and positions are often associated with specific research designs, therefore influencing the research approach adopted in any given study. Identifying an appropriate philosophical approach requires robust comprehension of how philosophical positions differ, alongside a reflective understanding of one's own perceptions and beliefs regarding what knowledge and reality “are” and how new knowledge is discovered, developed, and/or confirmed. This chapter therefore discusses different research paradigms and philosophies in order to identify core distinctions therein, highlighting the advantages and the challenges associated with different philosophical approaches to research along the way.

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Contemporary Research Methods in Hospitality and Tourism
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ISBN: 978-1-80117-546-3

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Publication date: 24 August 2023

Timo Paumen, David P. Kroon and Svetlana N. Khapova

While Merger & Acquisition (M&A) activity has reached unprecedented levels over recent years, M&A failure rates remain high. Yet, there is growing evidence that private equity…

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While Merger & Acquisition (M&A) activity has reached unprecedented levels over recent years, M&A failure rates remain high. Yet, there is growing evidence that private equity funds show high success rates. As little is known about the differences between different types of buyers, and only scant information exists on private equity funds’ operations, we inductively explore the reasons for their outperformance. In this qualitative study, we identify three characteristics (i.e., organizational set-up, private equity investors’ professional identities, and an integrative work approach), which we brought together into a theoretical framework that explains how private equity professionals can enable better M&A performance. Finally, our findings underline the effectiveness of specific incentivization approaches applied in private equity funds.

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Publication date: 1 March 1988

Martin Evans

A differentiation between environmental scanning and other elements of marketing information systems is provided. The main environments (market, social, economic, technological…

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A differentiation between environmental scanning and other elements of marketing information systems is provided. The main environments (market, social, economic, technological, legal, etc) are overviewed with examples of the dynamic nature of marketing's environment being provided. The implications for marketing management of such changes are discussed, namely, that depending on the specific influence, marketing activities might be directly affected (new technology providing alternative methods of conducting the same activities, or legislation governing these) or, market behaviour might change due to changes in social structure, social attitudes or changed lifestyles resulting from technological and/or economic change, with the indirect implications of these for marketing response. Approaches to scanning and predicting implications for marketing are discussed.

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Marketing Intelligence & Planning, vol. 6 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-4503

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Publication date: 10 October 2022

Christian Harrison

The concept of entrepreneurship is not new. As a concept, it remains elusive, diverse and multi-faceted. Although there is an extensive body of research within the field, there is…

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The concept of entrepreneurship is not new. As a concept, it remains elusive, diverse and multi-faceted. Although there is an extensive body of research within the field, there is little consensus on what underpins entrepreneurship, and whether it should remain a distinct domain of study.

This chapter contributes to the literature on entrepreneurship in developing economies. The study seeks to uncover the challenges facing entrepreneurs in a developing economy using the formal retail sector in Nigeria as a case.

Entrepreneurship in the retail sector of a developing economy has not been given significant attention by researchers despite its uniqueness and dynamism. By adopting a qualitative approach involving semi-structured interviews of 51 respondents, the lived experiences of these entrepreneurs were understood. Given the challenges such entrepreneurs face in a developing economy, this study makes a contribution, as the challenges such retail entrepreneurs face namely, challenges within the industry, government policy inconsistencies and corruption, infrastructural deficit and technology deficit were identified. In practice, the findings of this study serve as a useful reference for practitioners and policy-makers of the challenges that need to be addressed for entrepreneurship to flourish in Nigeria.

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The African Context of Business and Society
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ISBN: 978-1-80117-853-2

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Publication date: 7 December 2023

Seidali Kurtmollaiev and Tor Helge Aas

On the one hand, there is a long tradition of approaching management control and innovation as opposites that prompt organisational tensions. On the other hand, recent studies…

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On the one hand, there is a long tradition of approaching management control and innovation as opposites that prompt organisational tensions. On the other hand, recent studies have shown that management control may foster innovation and promote innovative behaviour. At the same time, both these perspectives focus on innovation management, and discussions regarding the role of management control in innovation leadership are conspicuously absent from the literature. In this chapter, we analyse how innovation leaders use management control in two service companies. We demonstrate that, in contrast to innovation managers who employ management control systems primarily for planning, monitoring, and evaluation purposes, innovation leaders use management control for advocacy, engagement, and visibility.

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Innovation Leadership in Practice: How Leaders Turn Ideas into Value in a Changing World
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ISBN: 978-1-83753-397-8

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