Questionnaire data from the chief operating executives of 220 minority-owned small business companies showed significant differences in the number and type of social responsibility activities engaged in when compared to previous samples of nonminority-owned large and small business companies. Various individual and company characteristics are related to the level of social responsibility activity.
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