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The High Rise Storage System, Justin H. Harmon
The High Rise Storage System, Justin H. Harmon
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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From Predator To Prey: The Edification Of Stigma Management In The Small-Dollar Loan Industry, Nick Mmbaga Mmbaga
From Predator To Prey: The Edification Of Stigma Management In The Small-Dollar Loan Industry, Nick Mmbaga Mmbaga
Doctoral Dissertations
In this dissertation, I focus on how entrepreneurs in a stigmatized industry – the Small-Dollar, or “Payday” Loan industry – manage industry stigma and evaluate the extent to which they employ strategies to mitigate this stigma. This dissertation is an ethnographic, participatory observation study, where I engage with lenders as a customer, borrowing and paying back loans from different small-dollar establishments. I find that, in response to being subject to multiple elements of stigma, industry representatives, entrepreneurs, and employees used a variety of strategies, in part, based on the policies initiated against their industry that resulted in different strategies employed …
Meg Hutchinson Business Plan- Flo+Co., Margaret E. Hutchinson
Meg Hutchinson Business Plan- Flo+Co., Margaret E. Hutchinson
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.