Infopreneur Essays

Theories of Group Communication The two theories that hold utmost importance in group communication are: (1) Functional Perspective on Group Decision Making by Randy Hirokawa & Dennis Gouran and (2) Adaptive Structuration Theory of Marshall Scott Poole. The first one i.e. Functional Perspective on Group Decision Making disagrees with the conventional perspective of too many cooks spoiling the broth. Instead it suggests that in a group, the members cares about the issue, are reasonably intelligent

A brief history of the entrepreneur: Robyn Rihanna Fenty (better known as Rihanna) was born on the 20th of February 1988 in Barbados. She is the eldest of three children who were born into a family were drug and alcohol abuse was prevalent. Rihanna turned to singing to release the stress of her family life which became worse after her parents’ divorce. At a very young age of 16 she was signed to Def Jam records and started producing and releasing music hereafter. Despite Rihanna’s harsh family life

in collaboration with CSIR/Meraka and other local partners, is focused on working with local micro-entrepreneurs. The innovation process involved more than 30 end users who ran Spaza shops—informal convenience shops usually run from home—or were infopreneurs. The living lab has been in existence since 2006 and continues to date. It has helped launch four lines of IT services, including collaborative procurement and logistics, collaborative stock management and e-commerce tools, collaborative knowledge-sharing