Formal aid in an informal sector: Institutional support for ethnic minority enterprise in local clothing and textiles industries

Husband, Joy; Jerrard, Bob

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“…Ethnic firms in this sector are often small in scale. They tend to perform subcontracting roles focusing on a specific element in the production process, particularly in apparel manufacturing (Bonacich and Appelbaum 2000;Waldinger and Lichter 2003;Husband and Jerrard, 2001). As ethnic manufacturing businesses are often subject to high labor turnover and irregular labor demand largely contingent on contract orders, these ethnic firms need to be located near the source of labor supply.…”

Section: Locational Demands Of Ethnic Businessesmentioning

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The Logic of Ethnic Business Distribution in Multiethnic Cities

Fong

Anderson

Chen

et al. 2008

Urban Affairs Review

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The authors propose a model for understanding ethnic business locations in multiethnic cities. The central argument of the framework is that the location of ethnic businesses reflects the match between the neighborhood business environment and the unique locational demand of the ethnic businesses involved in particular industrial sectors. Hypotheses were tested by a data set of Chinese businesses in the Toronto area drawn from business directories produced by the City of Toronto in 2000 and York Region in Canada in 2001, which were merged with 2001 Canadian census data.

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Section: Locational Demands Of Ethnic Businessesmentioning

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The Logic of Ethnic Business Distribution in Multiethnic Cities

Fong

Anderson

Chen

et al. 2008

Urban Affairs Review

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“…Firms are concentrated in the metropolitan core of the region in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Sandwell and Coventry. The overwhelming majority of companies are Asian-owned with a predominantly Asian female workforce (Husband & Jerrard, 2001). The industry thus provides an important source of employment for traditionally marginalized workers and generates wealth in inner city areas.…”

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Visualising the Operating Behaviour of SMEs in Sector and Cluster: Evidence from the West Midlands

Tully¹,

Berkeley

2004

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Cluster policy in the UK, pursued by the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs), has readily adopted a simplistic definition based upon industrial sectors and location quotients. Evidence drawn from a study of the operating behaviour of SMEs belonging to two traditional manufacturing industries within the West Midlands—automotive components and clothing—provides a critique of this approach. Whilst the automotive components industry has been designated part of a key, high priority cluster, the clothing industry has not. Using case studies from both industries, this paper shows firms both within and outside RDA cluster definitions display a remarkably similar range of behavioural characteristics. Yet, based on weakly defined cluster policy, one industry enjoys considerably more policy support than the other. The paper begins to question the logic of RDA cluster policy and to ask whether a more sophisticated and locally sympathetic manner of visualising clusters and business behaviour rather than an emphasis on employment numbers would have a greater impact for policy.

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“…However, when it comes to business support services and government initiatives such as business links, networks and training programmes, a low proportion of ethnic minority small enterprise owners make use of such resources (Barrett et al, 2001;Brenner et al, 2000;CEC, 2003;Husband and Jerrard, 2001;Marger, 2001). Furthermore, government policy has only a marginal impact on such enterprises (Barrett et al, 2001).…”

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The Transformation of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in Vietnam

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Formal aid in an informal sector: Institutional support for ethnic minority enterprise in local clothing and textiles industries

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

The Logic of Ethnic Business Distribution in Multiethnic Cities

The Logic of Ethnic Business Distribution in Multiethnic Cities

Visualising the Operating Behaviour of SMEs in Sector and Cluster: Evidence from the West Midlands

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