Women and Small Apparel Business Ownership: A Cross-cultural Exploration of the Entrepreneurial Experience
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The Department of Apparel, Education Studies, and Hospitality Management provides an interdisciplinary look into areas of aesthetics, leadership, event planning, entrepreneurship, and multi-channel retailing. It consists of four majors: Apparel, Merchandising, and Design; Event Management; Family and Consumer Education and Studies; and Hospitality Management.
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The Department of Apparel, Education Studies, and Hospitality Management was founded in 2001 from the merging of the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies; the Department of Textiles and Clothing, and the Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management.
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2001 - present
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- College of Human Sciences (parent college)
- Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies (predecessor)
- Department of Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management (predecessor)
- Department of Textiles and Clothing (predecessor)
- Trend Magazine (student organization)
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The purpose of this study was to explore to the role of such challenges within the entrepreneurial experiences of women who own small apparel businesses and to examine them across cultures. Because small business play an integral role in the apparel supply chain within nearly every country, an examination of the small apparel business across countries would add an international dimension to the literature.
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This proceeding is from 70th Annual Conference of the International Textile and Apparel Association (2013): pp. 12-13. Posted with permission.