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Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship
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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- Authors
- Aldrich, H. E., & Waldinger, R.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Sociology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 1990-08
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 111-135
- ISSN
- 0360-0572 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2115
- OpenAlex
- W2135366029
- Cited by
- 1,437
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 17.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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