SBANC Newsletter
April
26,
2005
Issue
369-2005
QUOTE
"The right to private property meant at the same time the right
and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being,
to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be
personally concerned about your future. This is hard work."
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
FEATURE
PAPER
Paradigms
of Leadership in the Teleworking Environment: A Qualitative
Study
This
paper was presented by David S. Taylor and Joseph K. Kavanaugh
of Sam Houston State University at the 2005 Allied Conference
in Memphis, Tennessee.
ABSTRACT
This paper explores those personal dimensions of leaders and followers and
the teleworking environment already identified by research, and develops
a tentative model for leader effectiveness in the virtual environment.
The emergence of communications technology has created work environments
that challenge well-established paradigms of leadership. Teleworking and
virtual office environments have redefined the relationships between the
employee, the supervisor, and the conditions of the workplace. Among the
variables considered are manager and employee role acceptance, anxieties
related to new role performance/behavior, and the importance of selfmanagement,
goal commitment, satisfactory communication, and work/life balance in the
definition of satisfactory role acceptance. New contingency models of leadership
are needed to better define the qualities and characteristics of leader
effectiveness in the leader-follower relationship where direct personal
contact is no longer the primary mode through which influence is conveyed.
Read the Entire Paper...
TIP
OF THE WEEK
Disasters
Executive Summary
At least 30 percent
of operating small businesses have been closed 24 hours or longer in the last
three years due to a natural disaster. (The number driven out of business for
that reason cannot be counted and are in addition.) The most frequent type of
event is a blizzard/ice storm/extreme cold (20 percent). About one-quarter as
many experienced a closure due to tornados, hurricanes or typhoons; wind or hale
storms; or floods. Fires, drought or extreme heat, and earthquakes, landslides,
or sink holes resulted in minimal closures in the three-year period.
Most impacts
from natural disasters are modest. Extreme impacts are highly
concentrated. Defining extreme impact on a business as non-operational
for at least one week and/or damage amounting in $100,000 or
more, about 2 - 3 percent of small businesses experienced an
extreme impact from a natural disaster in the last three years.
While most
disaster events are winter-storm related, the most destructive
events individually are tornados, hurricanes, and typhoons. an
insufficient number of seismic events occurred in the last three
years to determine their relative cost.
Sixty-two (62)
percent of those struck by a natural disaster say the biggest
problem caused was the loss of sales and customers; 18 percent
say that the biggest problem was uninsured losses. While many
believe in hindsight that they were adequately insured, the lack
of adequate insurance coverage was more frequently associates
with continuing operations (59 percent) than destruction of physical
property (44 percent).
One in 10 small-business
owners report that they have experienced a man-made disaster
over the last three years. The most common type of man-made disaster
was terrorism, though it cannot be determined the extent to which
the terrorism response reflects 9-11 or other forms of terrorism,
such as eco-terrorism.
Twelve (12)
percent of small businesses have been damaged in the last three
years by economic disruptions, such as the construction of highways,
rerouting of roads, urban renewal, etc. Of that number, just
15 percent say they were notified of the impending action by
the responsible authority 90 days or more in advance.
About one-third
(34 percent) of small businesses have been adversely impacted
over the last three years by computer viruses. of those impacted,
60 percent needed to hire a professional to repair affected systems;
29 percent needed to purchase new equipment; and 28 percent lost
documents. Eighty-three (83) percent currently employ anti-virus
software.
Twenty-one
(21) percent have lost electric power at their principal place
of business for at least 24 hours in the last three years. While
the loss of power is typically storm-related, 10 percent say
that during the period they lost power for non-storm-related
reasons. About 20 percent have back-up generating capacity at
their principal place of business.
Two in five
(38 percent) small employers have an emergency preparedness plan,
almost all of whom communicate it to their employees. However,
most take actions that are effectively part of such a plan, purposeful
or not.
"Executive Summary." Ed. William J. Dennis. National Small Business
Poll 4.5 (2004): 1.
CONFERENCES
Entrepreneurial Leadership and Business Advantage (ELBA)
The Entrepreneurial Leadership and Business Advantage (ELBA) is holding its World
Entrepreneurship Conference at California State University, Chico on August 4-10,
2005. This is truly an international entrepreneurship conference. The ELBA conference
will include presentations by U.S. policymakers, venture capitalists and successful
entrepreneurs.
For more information, visit: http://www.elba-conference.org
The Midwest Entrepreneurs’ Forum (MEF)
The Midwest Entrepreneurs' Forum will hold its Wheaton Chapter Meeting at the
Daniel L. & Ada F. Rice Campus
of Illinois Institute of Technology in Wheaton, Illinios on April 26, 2005.
The Midwest Entrepreneurs’ Forum (MEF) promotes and strengthens the process
of starting and growing companies by providing services, which educate and
inform entrepreneurs.
For more information, visit: http://www.gss.net/mef/
THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SMALL BUSINESS
(ICSB)
The International Council for Small Business (ICSB) is holding its 50th World
Conference at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Washington, DC on June 14, 2005.
The conference will focus on an international perspective on the costs of entry
and exit for a business, the importance of SME owner participation in the political
process international lessons on technology transfer, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
For more information, visit: http://www.icsb2005.org
Neighborhood Networks
Neighborhood Networks is holding its 10th Anniversary National Training Conference
at the Lake Buena Vista, Florida June 29-July 1, 2005. This conference
offers more than 30 sessions designed to help centers build capacity, create
new and improved programs for residents, and acquire funding to sustain
themselves.
For more information, visit: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/mfh/nnw/2005conf.cfm
Family
Enterprise Research Conference (FERC)
The 2005 Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC) be held at The Hilton
Portland & Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon on May 21-22, 2005. The
objective of this conference is to develop a community of scholars interested
in the conduct of research on family firms. FERC aims to enable scholars to
design & develop research projects that are theoretically sound, empirically
rigorous, & of practical significance to family firms.
For more information, visit: http://www.familybusinessonline.org/programs/ferc/
CALL
FOR PAPERS
Association
for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ASBE)
The Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ASBE) will hold its
Fall Conference at the La Posada de Albuquerque, Albuquerqu, New Mexico on October
5-7, 2005. There will continue to be best paper awards. These papers will also
be published in the Journal of Business & Entrepreneurship. Irwin will fund
a doctoral paper competition ($1,000 prize).
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2005
Please submit electronically to Dr. Shawn Carraher: scarraher@cameron.edu
Arkansas
College Teachers of Economics and Business
The Arkansas College Teachers of Economics and Business (ACTEB) will have its
54th annual meeting at Arkansas Tech University's Ross Pendergraft Library
in Russelville, Arkansas on October 7, 2005. The theme for this year's meeting
is "International and Local Issues in Business and Economics".
Inquiries or submissions should be sent to Lauren Maxwell: laurenm@uca.edu
The CIBER Institute
The CIBER Institute will hold its 2004 European Applied Business Research(EABR)
Conference and the European College Teaching & Learning(TLC) Conference
in Athens, Greece at the Marriott Hotel on June 13-17, 2005.
Submission Deadline: May 14, 2005
For more information, visit: http://www.ciberinstitute.org/
North
American Case Research Association (NACRA)
The North American Case Research Association (NACRA) will hold its Annual Conference
at the Sea Crest Oceanfront Resort & Conference Center in North Falmouth,
Massachusetts (Cape Cod) on October 27-29, 2005.
Submission Deadline: June 13, 2005
For more information, visit: http://www.emich.edu/nacra/website/capecod1.htm
IPSI-2005 VENICE
IPSI will hold its Symposium on Challenges in the Internet and Interdisciplinary
Research at the Hotel Luna Baglioni, Venice, Italy on November 9-14, 2005.
Topics include: Education, Computer science and engineering, B2B, B2C,
E-Business Management.
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2005
For more information, visit: http://www.internetconferences.net/venice2005/index.html
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Entrepreneurs
to See Lowered Costs in Accessing Capital
WASHINGTON -- In observance of National Small Business Week, Congresswoman
Nydia M. Velazquez (D-N.Y.), Ranking Member of the House Small
Business
Committee and her colleagues will introduce legislation, the Small
Business Access to Capital Act. Joining them will be small businesses
and lenders from across the country who will speak on the need
to make capital more affordable. Access to affordable capital is
key in allowing entrepreneurs to successfully start their businesses.
The Small Business Administration's (SBA) largest lending program
-- the 7(a) loan program, which provides 30 percent of all long-term
loans -- has traditionally filled this role. However, recent actions
taken by the administration raised the costs for both small businesses
and lenders, doubling the upfront fees anywhere from $1500 to $3000.
Since the fee increase was implemented, there has been a decline
in each quarter in the amount of loans made through the program
-- loans declined by nearly $400 million in the first quarter and
than an additional $140 million in the most recent quarter.
The Small Business
Access to Capital Act of 2005 will lower the cost to small business
and lenders using SBA's 7(a) loan program,
while providing new lending tools for banks.
When: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at 9:30 a.m.
Where: Capitol Building, HC-9
Who: Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez, Ranking Democrat, House Small Business
Committee, Democratic Members of the House Small Business Committee,
Small Business Owners, Lenders
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