Assistant Professor
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Management and Organizational Behavior Department
7-13 Tisch Hall, 40 West 4th Street
New York, New York 10012-1119
Social Capital and Social Networks
Becoming “Intellectual
Entrepreneurs”:
African-American Academic Research in Business Schools
How does an academic give back to the
community?
What special responsibility does an African American professor of
business
have? This paper begins to uncover one mechanism of giving back to the
community and the world. By starting with a theoretical
foundation,
I will describe how the academic research and careers of African
Americans
in business school can be used to gain influence in the areas of
business,
education, politics, public policy and international affairs.
The Ties that Bind:
America's
Inner Cities, Business Development, and the Next Frontier of Research
In this paper, I argue that inner city business
and economic development research has a greater potential to impact the
lives of African Americans than any other research area and is THE
civil
rights issue of the 21st century. African American business
scholars
are the key to understanding inner city business development and the
challenges
of inner city communities.
Social brokerage in the
hiring strategies of urban entrepreneurs
Due to segregation processes in the U.S.,
entrepreneurs in urban contexts find that the demography of their
firm's key
stakeholders calls for relationship-building across racial and ethnic
boundaries. We develop a concept of social brokerage, in which
entrepreneurs
develop ties across racial and ethnic boundaries to leverage their
positional
opportunity. An analysis of firm owners in urban areas confirms the use
of
social brokerage strategies in hiring and customer management.
Jeffrey Robinson
Last
modified: October 2,
2004.
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