SBANC
Newsletter
September
13, 2005
Issue
389-2005
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QUOTE
"Business
is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling.
It's about creating a product or service so good that people will
pay for it."
-- Anita
Roddick
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FEATURE
PAPER
Creating
Entrepreneurs From the Unemployed
This
paper was presented by Prashanth N. Bharadwaj, Thomas W. Falcone,
and Stephen W. Osborne of Indiana University of Pennsylvania at
the 2004 SBI Annual Conference.
Abstract
A provision of the 1993 North America Trade Agreement (NAFTA) legislation
was a mechanism that assists displaced workers with their interest
in becoming entrepreneurs and small business owners. The Self Employment
Assistance Program (SEAP) was created in several states to do just
this. This article summarizes the experience and findings of Indiana
University of Pennsylvania’s SEAP, which provided assistance
to over two hundred displaced workers between 1998 and 2003. The
findings suggest the most reliable predictor of “
success” was participation in the program, not entrepreneurial
predisposition, education, aptitudes, and other factors that would
be expected to positively influence success.
Read the Entire
Paper...
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CONFERENCES
2005 Purchasing
Conference
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| Who: |
The Conference Board
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| What: |
2005 Purchasing Conference: Sourcing Strategies
for Competitive Excellence
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| Where: |
The Waldorf, New York, New York |
| When: |
November 1-2, 2005 |
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13th
ASBBS Annual Meeting
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| Who: |
The American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS) |
| What: |
13th
Annual Meeting
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| Where: |
Las
Vegas, Nevada |
| When: |
Feb.
23-26, 2006 |
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SPPG
EdCon 2005
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| Who: |
The
National Association for Purchasing Management and the Southeast
Professional Procurement Group (NAPM/SPPG) |
| What: |
SPPG
EdCon 2005
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| Where: |
Grand
Casino Vernada Hotel in Tunica, Mississippi |
| When: |
September
28-October 1, 2005 |
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Ozarks
Regional Purchasing and Supply Management Conference
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| Who: |
The
National Association of Purchasing Management-Arkansas and the
University of Arkansas Supply Chain Management Research Center |
| What: |
The
Ozarks Regional Purchasing and Supply Management Conference
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| Where: |
The
Inn at Carnall Hall, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas |
| When: |
November
1-2, 2005 |
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The
Transformative Leadership Summit
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| Who: |
The
Liminal Group |
| What: |
The
Transformative Leadership Summit
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| Where: |
The
Metropolitan Club, New York |
| When: |
September
14-15, 2005 |
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CALLS
FOR PAPERS
13th ASBBS
Annual Meeting
|
| Who: |
The American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences |
| What: |
13th Annual Meeting
|
| Where: |
Las
Vegas, Nevada |
| When: |
Feb.
23-26, 2006 |
Submission
Deadline:
November 1, 2005
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Journal
of American Academy of Business, Cambridge
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| Who: |
The Journal
of American Academy of Business, Cambridge (JAABC) |
| What: |
--
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| Where: |
-- |
| When: |
-- |
Submission
Deadline:
September
26, 2005
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2005
EIBR Conference
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| Who: |
The
Economics & International Business Research Organization |
| What: |
2005
Economics & International Business Research Conference
|
| Where: |
Royal
Palm Crowne Plaza Resort in South Beach, Miami, Florida |
| When: |
December
14-17, 2005 |
Submission
Deadline:
September
27, 2005
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17th
Annual North American Research/Teaching Symposium
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| Who: |
The
International Purchasing and Supply Education & Research
Association |
| What: |
17th
Annual North American Research / Teaching Symposium in
Creating and Managing Value
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| Where: |
San
Diego, California |
| When: |
April
6-8, 2006 |
Submission
Deadline:
October 21, 2005 (abstract)
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ACME
Conference 2006
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| Who: |
The
Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators (ACME) |
| What: |
2006
ACME Conference
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| Where: |
Sheraton
Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana |
| When: |
March
1-4, 2006 |
Submission
Deadline:
September
23, 2005
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TIP
OF THE WEEK
Eight Central Paradoxes of Technological
Products
| Paradox |
Description |
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| Control/chaos |
Technology can facilitate regulation or order, and technology
can lead to upheaval or disorder |
Freedom/
enslavement |
Technology can facilitate independence or fewer restrictions,
and technology can lead to dependence or more restricitons |
| New/obsolete |
New technologies proved the user with the most recently developed
benefits of scientific knowledge, and new technologies are already
or soon to be outmoded as they reach the market place |
Competence/
incompetence |
Technology can facilitate feelings of intelligence or efficacy,
and technology can lead to feelings of ignorance or ineptitude. |
Efficiency/
inefficiency |
Technology can facilitate less effor or time spent in certain
activities, and technology can lead to more effort or time in
certain activities. |
Fulfills/
creates needs |
Technology can facilitate the fulfillment of needs or desires,
and technology can lead to the development of awareness of needs
or desires previously unrealized. |
Assimilation/
isolation |
Technology can facilitate human togetherness, and technology
can lead to human separation. |
Engaging/
disengaging |
Technology can facilitate involvement, flow, or activity, and
technology can lead to disconnection, disruption, disruption,
or passivity. |
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| Zeithaml,
Valarie A., Mary Jo Bitner, and Dwayne D. Gremler. Services
Marketing: Integrating Customer Focus Across the Firm. 4th
ed. New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2006. 21. |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The
SBI Network
SBANC
has recently compiled a list of Small Business Institute, Small Business
Management and Entrepreneurship institutions across the country.
If you are aware of a small business and/or entrepreneurial program
in your area, please take the time to drop by the SBI
Network. If you find a mistake or an omission, you can let us
know about it by clicking here,
or clicking the link at the bottom of any of the SBI Network pages.
UIC-Center for Urban Business Small
Business Development Center
Assists
established, emerging, and aspiring business
owners in building successful companies. They
also work with clients to access capital to grow or
start their business.
Contact them to find
out how they can
assist you in achieving success. sbdc@uic.edu
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of Retired Executives, Small Business Institute (SBI), Society for
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(USASBE), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Western Decision
Sciences Institute (WDSI). If you are interested in membership or
would like further information on one of our affiliates, please see
our web site at http://www.sbaer.uca.edu
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Direct Phone: (501) 450-5345, E-mail: donb@uca.edu
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