Abstract
We examine various approaches to explaining ethnic enterprise, using a framework based on three dimensions: an ethnic group's access to opportunities, the characteristics of a group, and emergent strategies. A common theme pervades research on ethnic business: Ethnic groups adapt to the resources made available by their environments, which vary substantially across societies and over time. Four issues emerge as requiring greater attention: the reciprocal relation between ethnicity and entrepreneurship, more careful use of ethnic labels and categories in research, a need for more multigroup, comparative research, and more process-oriented research designs.
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Ethnic groupEntrepreneurshipReciprocalTheme (computing)SociologyPolitical scienceComputer scienceAnthropology
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- 16
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- 1
- Pages
- 111-135
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Howard E. Aldrich,
Roger Waldinger
(1990).
Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship.
Annual Review of Sociology
, 16
(1)
, 111-135.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.so.16.080190.000551
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- 10.1146/annurev.so.16.080190.000551