Becoming an African Hair Salon Entrepreneur in the United States of America

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-51
Author(s):  
Anne Namatsi Lutomia ◽  
Julia Bello Bravo ◽  
Dorothy Owino Rombo ◽  
Fatimata Seck
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Women’S Entrepreneurship ◽  
Women's Entrepreneurship ◽  
Infrastructural Support ◽  
Content Review ◽  
Business Requirements ◽  
Push And Pull

African beauty salons are important institutions within the African and African American community and can be found in nearly every city and community where African immigrants have settled. This study utilizes content review and a single case study to explore the pathways to African women's entrepreneurship and business sustainability within the care industry of hair braiding. The authors applied the push and pull theory to illuminate the “non-choice” of salon entrepreneurship for educated African immigrant women. In general, the study shows the efforts of one entrepreneur to fit the unique exigencies of (African) hair braiding to local (western) business requirements. The study identifies how better accommodation of those exigencies would less inhibit this form of African women's entrepreneurship in general and thus benefit local communities at large through more sustainable service delivery, increased revenue flow, and infrastructural support for immigrants in general.

Becoming an African Hair Salon Entrepreneur in the United States of America

2018 ◽  
pp. 186-206
Author(s):  
Anne Namatsi Lutomia ◽  
Julia Bello Bravo ◽  
Dorothy Owino Rombo ◽  
Fatimata Seck
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Women’S Entrepreneurship ◽  
Women's Entrepreneurship ◽  
Infrastructural Support ◽  
Business Requirements

African beauty salons are important institutions in African and African American communities and can be found in nearly every city and community where African immigrants live. This study utilizes case study to explore the pathways to African women's entrepreneurship and business sustainability in hair braiding within the care industry. While social exchange theory and standpoint theory help to illuminate the “non-choice” of salon entrepreneurship for educated African immigrant women, Lave and Wenger's (1991) notion of communities of practice further discloses how the salon space becomes dedicated to more than service delivery. In general, the study shows the efforts of one entrepreneur to fit the unique exigencies of hair braiding to local (western) business requirements. The study identifies how more accommodation of those exigencies would less inhibit this form of African women's entrepreneurship in general and thus benefit local communities at large through more sustainable service delivery, increased revenue flow, and infrastructural support for immigrants in general.

E-voting adoption in many countries: A literature review

2021 ◽  
pp. 205789112110405
Author(s):  
Ikhsan Darmawan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The United States ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Research Questions

Although the number of countries that have adopted e-voting has decreased lately, the number of academic publications on e-voting adoption has increased in the last two years. To date, there is no coherent narrative in the existing literature that explains the progress of the research on e-voting adoption. This article aims to answer the following research question: “How has research on the topic of e-voting adoption progressed over the last 15 years?” The article provides a semi-systematic review of 78 studies that were conducted from 2005 to 2020. In this article, I argue that although the studies on e-voting adoption are dominated by a single case study, by research in the United States, and by the positivist paradigm, scholars have employed the term “e-voting adoption” diversely and the research on e-voting adoption has evolved to address more specific research questions. Recommendations for the future agenda of research on e-voting adoption are also discussed.

Sanctioned to Survive: How Foreign Firms Perform when Economic Sanctions Affect their Business Relationships—A Study of Contemporary Economic Sanction Actions and their Impact

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 501-538
Author(s):  
Blaine Stout
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Economic Sanctions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Study Strategies ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Exxon Mobil ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The intent of this study is to examine the effects of economic sanctions on companies with significant fdi operating in the sanctioned country. Using case study methodology, we consider the impact of sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation (rf) by the United States of America for its intrusion into the sovereign rights of Ukraine. Past sanction events in South Africa and pre-rf formation are reviewed. Two measurable frameworks are developed to study strategies based on ‘divestment and non-divestment’ (Malone and Goodin 1997) dimensions and coupled with variables related to ‘direct and indirect’ effects on financial performance, forgone potential, (Losman 1988) and foreign direct investment (Biglaiser and Lektzian 2011). This research also relies on the historical accounts of Hufbauer et al. (2007) for the compilation of facts related to economic sanctions. Through literature review, the study asks: 1) Strategically, how does a company respond to the economic sanctions imposed by its home country on the sanctioned country in which it has significant fdi? 2) Financially, how do economic sanctions affect the company’s performance and fdi? and 3) Organizationally, how do economic sanctions affect the relationships with those recipient companies of fdi? The study focus is on the energy industry in which the rf economy relies upon for 40 percent of its sustainability and the company of focus is Exxon Mobil (xom). The author readily acknowledges that a single case study may not provide the degree of conclusiveness found in a cross-case study format. However, the outcome of the study does provide a template for use in future case reviews.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF THE CRISIS CAUSED BY COVID-19 ON WOMEN'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN TOURISM IN SERBIA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nebojša Pavlović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Women’S Entrepreneurship ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
The Future ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Women's Entrepreneurship ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this paper is to consider the impact of the crisis caused by Covid-19 on tourism and on women's entrepreneurship in tourism in Serbia. The paper will use the methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, abstraction, specification and generalization, observation, testing, content analysis, and case study. Based on the available data, it can be concluded that the crisis caused by Covid-19 on the one hand led to (1) the closure of a large number of entrepreneurial companies in the field of tourism, as a result of which a large number of women entrepreneurs lost their jobs; (2) the increased importance of domestic tourism due to the increase in the participation of domestic tourists in total tourist trends. In the future, more attention should be paid to the possibility of training women entrepreneurs in the field of tourism.

Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice for Women

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Meryem Aybas ◽  
Gaye Özçelik
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Career Choice ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Pull Factors ◽  
Push And Pull Factors ◽  
Women’S Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women's Entrepreneurship ◽  
Push And Pull ◽  
Additional Income

Entrepreneurship is seen as an important tool in the prevention of women's unemployment and in the fight against poverty in underdeveloped and developing countries. Entrepreneurship becomes particularly obligatory for many women to substitute a kind of employment to provide additional income to the family. Drawing on Bowen and Hisrich's a career perspective to women's entrepreneurship and the context of a successful entrepreneurial career of a woman in Turkey, this chapter aims to discuss women's entrepreneurship by focusing on the reasons as to why women might choose entrepreneurship as a career choice. Another contribution is to provide a platform aimed at encouraging the mindset for the development of women's employment and entrepreneurship. In this context, the chapter provides explanations for the reasons for women's entrepreneurship within the push and pull factors. Furthermore, the main demographics of women entrepreneurs, their general personality characteristics, the sectors they operate in, and the difficulties they face are discussed.

The Contribution of Female Creativity to the Development of Gastronomic Tourism in Greece

2022 ◽  
pp. 246-258
Author(s):  
Panoraia Poulaki ◽  
Antonios Kritikos ◽  
Nikolaos Vasilakis ◽  
Marco Valeri
Keyword(s):  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Women’S Entrepreneurship ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Women's Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Rich

Gastronomy as an important part of the culture, morals, customs, and traditions of the countries meets the needs of visitors and at the same time contributes to tourism development through the rich gastronomic heritage. Gastronomic tourism offers the possibility of increasing the income criteria of a population, increasing jobs, and developing the national economy. The purpose of this study is to highlight the role of female creativity in the development of a gastronomic destination with a case study of Naxos in the South Aegean in Greece. At the same time, it aims to highlight the great challenges and opportunities brought about by gastronomic tourism with the contribution of women's entrepreneurship. Women's creativity and entrepreneurship create new job opportunities. The dynamic presence and activity of the women of Naxos highlights the tourism destination of Naxos as a destination of high gastronomy. Secondary sources present gender discrimination in entrepreneurship, women's entrepreneurship in tourism, and the connection of tourism with gastronomic heritage.

scholarly journals The Pursuit of Nurse Practitioner Practice Legislation: A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 222-232
Author(s):  
Catherine Moore ◽  
Angela Kabbe ◽  
Tiffany S. Gibson ◽  
Susan Letvak
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Single Case ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regulatory Change ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Legislative Changes

Across the United States, nursing practice acts (NPAs) have been revised to include provisions that promote full practice authority (FPA) for nurse practitioners (NPs). Such revisions provide a mechanism to better utilize the full scope of NP services to address growing demands for access to health care. Modernized NPAs that facilitate FPA for NPs are imperative, especially now with the unprecedented health care crisis that the world now faces: Coronavirus Disease 2019. This is the first known study to use an embedded single-case study design, guided by the Kingdon policy stream model, to provide a detailed account of how stakeholders for NP FPA determine the appropriate time to pursue legislative changes to NP scope of practice regulations. Qualitative data analysis revealed four themes which comprised the components considered by stakeholders during their decision-making processes related to NP FPA: participants, problem, policy development, and politics. Themes were further collapsed within concepts from the Kingdon model to form the case description. Study findings can be used to increase the competency among NP FPA stakeholders in determining the timing of legislative pursuits for regulatory change.

scholarly journals One Step at a Time: A Journey of Hope, Inspiration, and Determination

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda Hermanns ◽  
Barbara Haas
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Functional Ability ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Exercise Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Surgical Interventions ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Impact

Approximately three million persons in the United States face the challenge of living with Parkinson's Disease (PD). In spite of medical and surgical interventions, the disease progresses, resulting in bradykinesia, rigidity and postural instability that impair functional ability and quality of life. The purpose of this case study is to illuminate the impact an exercise program may have on an individual with PD. A single case study design was used to explore the effect of exercise on the quality of life of a 73-year old gentleman with advanced PD. Interviews and field observations of the client, wife, and staff at a community based exercise facility were conducted. Analyses were based on coding of verbatim transcripts and field notes. Three themes emerged from the study: hope, inspiration, and determination. This case study is an exemplar of the impact exercise conducted in a supportive environment may have on improving the functional ability and quality of life for persons with PD.

scholarly journals Redistribution Activities of Distributors in the Brewing Industry in an Emerging Economy

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Charles Adusei ◽  
Isaac Tweneboah-Koduah
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Sales Force ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Brewing Industry ◽  
Effective Coverage ◽  
Retail Outlets ◽  
Push And Pull

The decision about marketing channels selection is critical as it ultimately affects the other supply chain activities of any business. The purpose of this study was to examine the redistribution role of distributors in the brewing industry. The study employed a survey using a single case study from the perspective of retail outlets. The study revealed that availability and visibility of brands increased brand penetration coupled with effective coverage and management of sales territories by the distributor. The outlets indicated that getting all the empties for their purchase of products was a challenge. The study suggests that distributors must be accountable and ensures flawless sales force coverage and effectiveness to avoid out-of-stocks situations. Manufacturers must intensify their trade and consumer promotions concurrently to really connect the push and pull aspect of distribution.

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