Ethnic entrepreneurs and online home-based businesses: an exploratory study

Anwar, Muhammad Naveed; Daniel, Elizabeth

doi:10.1186/s40497-017-0065-3

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“…The embeddedness framework recognises that the entrepreneur is both socially and economically located in an ethnic community (Katila and Wahlbeck, 2012) in addition to the wider social, economic and institutional context of the host country. Importantly, changes over time in the wider institutional and economic environment open up new business opportunities for entrepreneurs able to access the requisite sets of resources (Anwar and Daniel, 2017).…”

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Chinese immigrant entrepreneurship: Embeddedness and the interaction of resources with the wider social and economic context

Wang

Warn²

2017

International Small Business Journal

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This article investigates the factors that influenced the entrepreneurial start-up businesses among Chinese immigrants who had been granted residency under three different immigration policies in Australia. These immigrant groups differed in their resources and experienced different market conditions which led to different opportunity structures and subsequent choices of entrepreneurial activities. The mixed embeddedness model was identified as being useful for analysing the factors contributing to the business start-ups of these Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs. The research contributes to the existing literature by developing a dynamic analysis of the interaction of personal resources and economic conditions in the pursuit of business ventures. Also, the intersectionality of gender, race and class is analysed in relation to the mixed embeddedness model. Importantly, this research emphasises the need to look beyond either broad cultural factors or single factors in attempting to analyse the pathways selected by immigrant entrepreneurs.

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confidence: 99%

Chinese immigrant entrepreneurship: Embeddedness and the interaction of resources with the wider social and economic context

Wang

Warn²

2017

International Small Business Journal

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“…Also, studies based on the theory have tended to overlook entrepreneurial agency, suggesting that EMEs have little influence over their context. In contrast, Anwar and Daniel (2017) have shown that EMEs creatively influence the varied forces acting on them, suggesting a more mutually constitutive relationship.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Increases in female EMEs may be considered as an outcome of their mixed embeddedness. Drawing on the notion of agency and recursive change (Anwar and Daniel, 2017), increased rates of female EMEs could influence normative or 1423 Contemporary ethnic minority entrepreneurship mimetic forces in the local or national context, encouraging further female EMEs, for example through role modelling, mentoring or business support policies targeted at female entrepreneurs and female EMEs (Langevang et al, 2015).…”

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Contemporary ethnic minority entrepreneurship in the UK

Daniel

Henley

Anwar

2019

IJEBR

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Purpose Ethnic minority entrepreneurs (EMEs) are traditionally associated with lower growth industry sectors. The purpose of this paper is to draw on the theory of mixed embeddedness to determine if more recent EMEs have been able to break out of lower growth sectors and if break out varies across ethnic minority groups. It also compares entrepreneurial quality in terms of weekly hours worked, weekly earnings and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative inferential statistical analysis is undertaken on data drawn from the large scale, social sciences data set for the UK, Understanding Society. Findings The study finds that break out is not associated with being a recent EME but does vary across ethnic minority groups. Break out is found to be associated with gender, education, English language proficiency and occupational status. Some variation in entrepreneurial quality is found for both recent EMEs and across ethnic minority groups. Practical implications Understanding the nature and quality of ethnic minority entrepreneurship is important since it informs public debate about migration, informs policy and shapes activities of future EMEs. Originality/value The study provides a theoretically grounded interpretation of the explanatory variables associated with EME break out and entrepreneurial quality. Second, it provides a large confirmatory study of break out and finally, it also finds an important empirical nuance to the concept of opportunity structure by identifying a variation over time in both external and socio-demographic factors.

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“…Home-based businesses more specifically frequently use sub-contracting for more difficult or time-consuming IT tasks (Anwar and Daniel, 2017). Sub-contracting seems also to be preferred over hiring employees as a way to maintain a home location and flexibility (Ekinsmyth, 2014;van Gelderen et al, 2008).…”

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“…In a comparative study of home-based businesses and small businesses in commercial premises in Scotland, no home-based business had accessed public sector grants and loans . Moreover, difficulties with securing bank loans due to the home-based nature of the business were mentioned by ethnic home-based entrepreneurs in the UK that operate online businesses (Anwar and Daniel, 2017).…”

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Policy Brief on Home-Based Businesses

Reuschke

Domecka

2018

OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Papers

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This policy brief examines the phenomenon of home-based entrepreneurship. It provides information on the types of businesses that entrepreneurs are most likely to operate out of the home, their reasons for this choice, and barriers to the development of home-based businesses. It examines how public policy approaches can better support home-based businesses, including removing hindrances in regulations and improving access to business development services. Key policy lessons are highlighted, including on how policy makers can increase social and labour market inclusion through taking better account of home-based businesses. This policy brief is part of a series of reports produced by the OECD on inclusive entrepreneurship. The series includes policy briefs on women's entrepreneurship, youth entrepreneurship, senior entrepreneurship, access to business start-up finance for inclusive entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship by the disabled, as a well as reports on 'The Missing Entrepreneurs'. JEL codes: L26, J16

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Ethnic entrepreneurs and online home-based businesses: an exploratory study

Cited by 18 publications

References 69 publications

Chinese immigrant entrepreneurship: Embeddedness and the interaction of resources with the wider social and economic context

Chinese immigrant entrepreneurship: Embeddedness and the interaction of resources with the wider social and economic context

Contemporary ethnic minority entrepreneurship in the UK

Policy Brief on Home-Based Businesses

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