The Review of Black Political Economy articles from September 1993

The Review of Black Political Economy archives from September 1993

Minority business development: where do we go from here?
September 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION In the two-plus decades (1969-93) since the Nixon administration first initiated a federal minority business development program in the Department of Commerce through an executive order, the wisdom of that decision has oftentimes...

Perspectives on minority business.
September 22, 1993... This special issue of The Review of Black Political Economy continues the nearly twenty-five-year tradition of encouraging and disseminating scholarly contributions relating to the social, political and economic issues in minority business. In...

Black Americans' business ownership factors: a theoretical perspective.
September 22, 1993... The struggle of black Americans for liberation, equality and participation in this country has seemed to focus on three distinguishable though interrelated areas: politics, culture and economics.(1) With black Americans making up 6 percent of the...

Rural minority business development.
September 22, 1993... Local Entrepreneurs," in Proceedings of the National Rural Entrepreneurship Symposium (Mississippi State University: Southern Rural Development Center, August 1987), pp. 102-109. 12. Frank A. Fratoe, "Social Capital of Black Business Owners,"...

Progress and success in the development of black-owned franchise units.
September 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION An alternative path to traditional small business ownership is to be a franchisee. The pros and cons of such an alternative are well known and have been the subject of numerous articles and book chapters. Clearly the franchise...

The performance of minority banks in a deregulated banking environment.
September 22, 1993... There have been many studies comparing the performance of minority banks (specifically black-owned banks) with nonminority banks. Such studies include the work of Brimmer,(1) Boorman,(2) Kwast,(3) Bates and Bradford,(4) and Gardner,(5) 1986....

An analysis of small high performing minority and nonminority banks' strategies, 1980-1988.
September 22, 1993... DEFINITION OF THE EFFICIENT, HIGH PERFORMING SMALL BANK This study departs from previous studies of high performance banking in three areas: (1) the univariate methodology compares high performing minority and high performing nonminority banks;...

Equalizing opportunity through small business development: a South African perspective.
September 22, 1993... The arguments in this article draw extensively from empirical inquiry among the black business community of South Africa and from interaction with research and development agencies concerned with promoting small firm development. The "small firm"...

Gender, entrepreneurship and socioeconomic reparation in South Africa.
September 22, 1993... ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT There are perhaps as many definitions of entrepreneurship as there are entrepreneurs. For the purpose of this article, however, we adopt the functional view of entrepreneurship as a type of activity...