Breeding places for ethnic entrepreneurs: a comparative marketing approach

Masurel, Enno; Nijkamp, Peter; Vindigni, Gabriella

doi:10.1080/0898562042000205045

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“…that the value of the determining factors can be categorized. Rough set analysis has increased in popularity in the investigation of company behaviour, like acquisition, failure (bankruptcy), market strategy and location-boundedness (Dimitras et al 1999;van Geenhuizen and Nijkamp 2007;Masurel et al 2004;Sanchis et al 2006;Slowinsky et al 1997).…”

Section: Rough Set Analysis: Principles and Prediction Accuracymentioning

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Modelling dynamics of knowledge networks and local connectedness: a case study of urban high-tech companies in The Netherlands

Geenhuizen

2007

Ann Reg Sci

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There are increasing doubts on the importance of localized knowledge and learning as benefits from a clustered location. Some empirical studies indicate that the influence of local proximity in knowledge networks stretches over larger distances than in previous times, while others suggest that local and global knowledge networks coexist. This study seeks to fill a gap in understanding how knowledge networks are shaped and how global networks may affect strength of local connectedness in a cluster. The study adopts an entrepreneurial view, drawing on a selected sample of urban innovators in the Netherlands, and employs rough set analysis and various other learning experiments. The results suggest that local/regional and global networks coexist in the urban places; this as a result of the interplay of spatial focus in the overall strategy, network capabilities and innovation intensity. With regard to local connectedness, our tentative results indicate a limited, but differentiated weakening of local linkages if knowledge networking is predominantly global. Overall, in balancing global with the local, young high-technology companies seek different ways dependent on progressing in their lifecycle and specific strategic choices. JEL Classification

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Section: Rough Set Analysis: Principles and Prediction Accuracymentioning

confidence: 99%

Modelling dynamics of knowledge networks and local connectedness: a case study of urban high-tech companies in The Netherlands

Geenhuizen

2007

Ann Reg Sci

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“…Within literature on immigrant entrepreneurship, the restaurant business has long been viewed in an evolutionistic light, as springing from internal demand from co-ethnics, to which the immigrant entrepreneurs provide an almost mechanical response. There can be no doubt that many case studies have pointed to this type of process (e.g., Masurel, Nijkamp and Vindigni 2004), but this is not to be interpreted nomologically. Our research has shown that different paths could also be identified.…”

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Being an entrepreneur: emergence and structuring of two immigrant entrepreneur groups

Storti¹

2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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The paper aims to analyze the mechanisms whereby immigrant entrepreneurship emerges and develops. In this connection, we argue that studies of immigrant entrepreneurship can benefit from deeper dialog with economic sociology. With the idea of mixed embeddedness as our starting point, we advocate an analytical framework of the generative mechanisms of immigrant entrepreneurship that traces the interconnections between the approaches of New Economic Sociology, Political Economy and Neo-Institutionalism from the perspective of mechanismbased explanation. This framework is then applied to a qualitative case study conducted on two micro immigrant-entrepreneur groups: the Italian ice cream parlor owners and pizzeria owners in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, selected inasmuch as they represent polar forms of immigrant entrepreneurship. In this perspective, empirical findings show detailed differences between the two groups. For pizzeria owners, entrepreneurial transition is the result of a short-term project, the actors are part of small networks, do business in predominantly local markets, and are mainly shaped by mimetic isomorphism. By contrast, the ice cream parlor owners script more consistent entrepreneurial paths, belong to more highly articulated networks, show specific aspects of economic transnationalism, and structure themselves by a predominately normative process.

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“…Studies across cities and countries often highlight similar issues for ethnic entrepreneurs with the most commonly recognised challenges are those relating to: access to finance; communication skills; statutory requirements and regulations; and shortages of co-ethnic staff (Oc and Tiesdell, 1999;Masurel, Nijkamp and Vindigni, 2004;Deakins et al, 2005). Whilst some of these factors are common to SMEs regardless of the ethnic background of the entrepreneur, they may be amplified (Fairlie, 2013).…”

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“…The most commonly noted challenge faced by ethnic minority entrepreneurs is related to access to finance (CEEDR, 2000;Oc and Tiesdell, 1999;Masurel et al, 2004;Smallbone et al, 2005;Deakins et al, 2005;Ram et al, 2008). Although access to SME finance is identified as limiting growth and success of SMEs in general (Macartney, 2014), 'discouraged borrowers' who do not apply for finance fearing rejection or the conditions that will be attached may be an even greater issue (Freel et al, 2012).…”

Section: Challenges Faced By Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurs -Access Tomentioning

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Challenges and issues facing ethnic minority small business owners

Rahman

Ullah

Thompson

2018

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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Studies investigating the challenges and barriers faced by ethnic minority entrepreneurs have often concentrated on areas where there is a large supportive ethnic minority community. Less work has been conducted on the experience of those entrepreneurs operating in cities where such ethnic resources may be less widely available. Considered from the perspective of mixed embeddedness framework, this study uses face-to-face interviews with 25 ethnic minority entrepreneurs to gain a greater understanding of the constraints experienced by the starting and running businesses in one such location, the Scottish city of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. Although issues found by previous studies such as access to funding remain an issue, the entrepreneurs indicated problems with access to labour as United Kingdom Border Agency’s immigration rules and tightening of the Post Study Work visa have had a profound effect on these entrepreneurs. The results imply that the weakening of the ethnic resource microsphere has not opened up opportunities which are exploited by the entrepreneurs, but they have still been exposed to external forces from the regulatory macrosphere. Both entrepreneurs and policymakers need to think carefully about the retention, training and recruitment of staff. In particular, the wider ramifications of immigration rule changes need to be considered, but also whether entrepreneurs need to be more open to the potential of recruiting non-ethnic employees and if so what support is required to achieve this.

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Breeding places for ethnic entrepreneurs: a comparative marketing approach

Cited by 89 publications

References 30 publications

Modelling dynamics of knowledge networks and local connectedness: a case study of urban high-tech companies in The Netherlands

Modelling dynamics of knowledge networks and local connectedness: a case study of urban high-tech companies in The Netherlands

Being an entrepreneur: emergence and structuring of two immigrant entrepreneur groups

Challenges and issues facing ethnic minority small business owners

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