Introduction from Special Editors

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special issues of more general journals. Literature reviews have appeared in journals, as chapters, and as separate volumes (Ram and Jones, 2008).Early in the British discourse a contrast developed between studies emphasizing the cultural background of migrant groups as an explanation of minority business development (Srinivasan, 1995;Werbner, 1984Werbner, , 1990, and those that emphasized constraining social and economic factors (Aldrich et al., 1981(Aldrich et al., , 1984. In the first instance the empirical content of the former, culturalist, explanations was normally derived from qualitative interviews and ethnographic observation, while the latter, structural, works relied more on quantitative approaches, including extensive use of structured questionnaires.More recently this simple association of theory and method has dissolved, so that qualitative interviews are now often used by those of an avowedly structuralist view (Anthias and Cederberg, 2009;Jones and Ram, 2007;Jones et al., 2006). Concurrently a strong developing influence has been the mixed embeddedness approach of Dutch scholars emphasizing the role of political and legal frameworks as conditioning factors for economic and cultural factors (Kloosterman et al., 1999). This departure provides, inter alia, a theoretical hook for the many studies of ethnic business that have addressed public policy issues (Deakins et al., 2009;Kitching et al., 2009). The four ethnic minority business articles in this issue originated in a colloquium on ethnic entrepreneurship and management, held at the School of Management of Bradford University in

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