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Item Metadata only Experimenting with supply chain learning (SCL): supplier diversity and ethnic minority businesses.(Springer Science, 2005) Theodorakopoulos, N.; Ram, M.; Shah, M.; Boyal, H.Item Metadata only Forms of capital, mixed embeddedness and Somali enterprise.(Sage, 2008) Ram, M.; Theodorakopoulos, N.; Jones, T. P.Item Open Access Human resource development for inclusive procurement by intermediation: a situated learning theory application.(Taylor and Francis Group, 2013-12) Theodorakopoulos, N.; Ram, Monder; Beckinsale, M. J. J.Recent thinking in academic and policy making circles puts forward the idea that ethnic minority businesses need to escape from their disadvantageous sectoral concentration through diversification into higher value-added activities. Drawing on the US experience, it has been suggested that intermediation initiatives that promote the concept of supplier diversity hold a great promise. Such initiatives are concerned with developing and bringing together corporate procurement officials (CPO) of large organisations and ethnic minority business owner-managers (EMBOs), so that the two parties can engage meaningfully. Yet, in the UK such initiatives are still at an early stage of development and there is little detailed evidence of their modus operandi or effectiveness. Hence, the main aim of this article is to demonstrate how nurturing and facilitating the interaction of communities of practice of CPOs and EMBOs can help their professional development and their approaches to procuring and supplying respectively. Situated learning theory is used to this effect, contributing to the debate around its usefulness and on the constructability and performative advantages of communities of practice. The paper reports on the researchers’ experience with two projects relating to intermediation initiatives that brought together and developed CPOs of large organisations and EMBOs. The lessons drawn would be useful for intermediary organisations, large procurers and minority suppliers who are willing to engage with the concept of supplier diversity.Item Metadata only ICT adoption and ebusiness development: Understanding ICT adoption amongst ethnic minority businesses.(Sage, 2011) Beckinsale, M. J. J.; Ram, M.; Theodorakopoulos, N.Item Metadata only Policy transfer in practice: Implementing supplier diversity in the UK(2007-09-01) Ram, M.; Theodorakopoulos, N.; Worthington, I.Item Metadata only Small business development and the “learning organisation”.(Emerald, 2000) Wyer, P.; Mason, J.; Theodorakopoulos, N.Item Open Access Strategizing In the Context of Transitional Economy: The Interplay between Firm Level and Institutional Logics(EURAM, 2015-06) Woldesenbet, K.; Theodorakopoulos, N.Using the dual concepts of ‘dominant logic’ and institutional logics, this paper examines how senior managers in the context of transition economy navigate between the competing logics of state- dependency and market-dependency when seeking to explain their firms’ business strategies. By comparing accounts in matched-paired case studies drawn from state versus private sectors, the study reveals how top teams develop shared dominant logics which are patterned in a manner which reveals that the degree of state-dependency was the critical variable and that market was a subsidiary variable. Further, the study found that it was the top teams in the state-owned firms which articulated the more confident, proactive expansionary plans, while the top managers in the private sector firms presented more cautious and incremental business strategies. Contextual conditions are described which help account for these contrasting patterns.Item Metadata only Transnationalism as a force for ethnic minority enterprise? The case of Somalis in Leicester.(Blackwells, 2010) Jones, T. P.; Ram, M.; Theodorakopoulos, N.