We examined consumption behavior to understand how individuals become culturally plural consumers through exploratory research conducted in one of the world’s most urban multi-cultural environments, the UAE. As a starting point consumption was deemed as “consummatory” in accord with...

The accountabilities of the members of the board of directors (BoD) of companies have increased over the years. In nearly every country there is a spate of legislation that holds board members to far greater liability than in the past. Some courts in the US, for instance, are questioning the...

The economic activities of entrepreneurs are not confined to the ownership of a single firm, but encompass income generation from a variety of sources including wage labour, non-earned income and profit from secondary business ventures. This paper investigates the multiple income sources of a...

While the entrepreneurship and small business research literature has tended to portray women as lesser than men in identifying the differences between them, little research has looked at how gender is construed in business ownership. The purpose of this paper is to provide a new focus,...

This study provides an African perspective to the global research and literature on retail customer adoption of Internet banking (IB). It empirically examines the influence of seven demographic variables – age, gend er, level of education, marital status, employment status, income level and...