Immigrant Small Business and International Economic Linkage: A Case of the Korean Wig Business in Los Angeles, 1968-1977

Chin, Ku-Sup; Yoon, In‐Jin; Smith, David A.

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“…That this truth applies more broadly to groups additional to African Americans has been reinforced by other qualitative researchers. For example, Chin, Yoon, and Smith (1996) utilized interviews (culled through snowball sampling) to demonstrate the importance of cultural characteristics, personal characteristics, and international economic context to Korean American businessmen.…”

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Sampling Minority Business Owners and Their Families: The Understudied Entrepreneurial Experience

Puryear

Rogoff

Lee

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J Small Business Management

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JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 422We here review and critique prior research on minority entrepreneurship, paying particular attention to the contributions and limitations of deployed sampling techniques and research methodologies. As based on this review, we then introduce the 2003 and 2005 National Minority Business Owner Surveys-a comprehensive and primary data collection effort that used varied methodologies to secure in-depth information about random national samples of African American, Korean American, and Mexican American populations as well as a comparison sample of nonminority business owners. We present the initial business ownership profiles developed with these recent data, in part, as a benchmark of the U.S. entrepreneurial experience, and compare the profiles with those presented in prior research. These profiles document similarities and differences across the four groups and provide an empirical foundation for understanding the origin of those similarities and differences. No longer can we ignore the in-depth study of minority businesses and their owning families nor can we simply assume that all businesses are the same, regardless of minority status or ethnicity.

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Section: The Methodologies Of Prior Minority Business Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sampling Minority Business Owners and Their Families: The Understudied Entrepreneurial Experience

Puryear

Rogoff

Lee

et al. 2008

J Small Business Management

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“…The almost immediate result of this strategic diaspora-homeland collaboration was a jump in the South Korean market share of wigs in the United States, from a mere 5 percent in 1965 to 89 percent in 1972. KEB even opened a U.S. branch in Los Angeles in 1967 to further assist with business lending to Korean immigrants (Chin, Yoon and Smith 1996). The immigrants gained in experience and confidence in the wig and other hair care and beauty supply businesses that made them more adept at penetrating numerous other markets, particularly in poor minority communities and beyond.…”

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Transnationalism: Diaspora-Homeland Development

Patterson

2006

Social Forces

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Based on detected correlations between the strategic collaboration of U.S.-based diasporas and their respective ancestral homelands on the one hand and the socioeconomic and technological development of those homelands on the other, this paper, which provides a conceptual foundation of the correlation, attempts to ignite a new area of research on transnationalism and development in the global South. The conceptual foundation suggesting such an important correlation is ensconced in the theoretical contexts of world systems and racial formation theories. The hierarchically ranked status of a nation in some ways reflects the hierarchically ranked status of its diaspora in the United States. Strategic collaboration and brain circulation between the diaspora and the homeland can favorably affect the status of transnational communities, both within the United States and within the wider global system.

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“…Ethnic businesses are no longer small in size, especially among new immigrant groups. Contrary to their traditional image as small family businesses, a new image is emerging of large ethnic‐owned and ‐operated corporations that hire sizeable numbers of employees (Chin, Yoon, and Smith 1996; Li 1998; Light and Gold 2000). The growing diversity in size of ethnic businesses partly reflects changes in Canadian and U.S. immigration policies of the last few decades, which have attracted immigrants with financial capital and business experience to major North American cities.…”

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A Study of Locational Distribution of Small and Large Ethnic Businesses in a Multiethnic City: Chinese in Toronto, Canada

Fong

Chen

Luk

2012

Journal of Small Business Management

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The study, with specific hypotheses developed from the literature on ecological perspective and the economic sociology, addresses the locational patterns of small and large ethnic businesses in a multiethnic context. Drawing from a 2001 data set of Chinese businesses collected in Toronto and 2001 Canadian census tract data, our results show that though a considerable proportion of small Chinese businesses are located in coethnic neighborhoods, close to half of them are located outside coethnic neighborhoods. Similar patterns are also found among large Chinese businesses.

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Immigrant Small Business and International Economic Linkage: A Case of the Korean Wig Business in Los Angeles, 1968-1977

Cited by 25 publications

References 7 publications

Sampling Minority Business Owners and Their Families: The Understudied Entrepreneurial Experience

Sampling Minority Business Owners and Their Families: The Understudied Entrepreneurial Experience

Transnationalism: Diaspora-Homeland Development

A Study of Locational Distribution of Small and Large Ethnic Businesses in a Multiethnic City: Chinese in Toronto, Canada

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