The Experiences of Asian Women Entering Business Start-up in the UK

Dawe, A J.; Fielden, Sandra L.

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“…The foregrounding of the role of women in ethnic-minority enterprise has been a welcome feature of recent studies (Dawe and Fielden, 2005;Dhaliwal, 2000;Hilmann, 1999). Of course, it has long been recognised that women often play a pivotal role in family-owned firms (Ram, 1992) and that their contribution to the enterprise is often unacknowledged (Phizacklea, 1990).…”

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“…However, this recognition has not generated many, or indeed any, large-scale systematic studies of EMBs that are owned and run by women. Some useful insights into the challenges faced by such women have been provided by isolated small-scale studies (Dawe and Fielden, 2005;Dhaliwal, 2000). But these are few and far between, and are not of a scale that is likely to provide an accurate profile of female entrepreneurship in ethnic-minority communities.…”

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Ethnic-Minority Businesses in the UK: A Review of Research and Policy Developments

Ram

Jones

2008

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Introduction For policy makers, the allure of ethnic-minority entrepreneurship is multifaceted. Numerical significance is undoubtedly a key factor: there are more than a quarter of a million ethnic-minority businesses (EMBs) in the UK, which contribute at least »15 billion to the UK economy per year. In England alone, in 2004 EMBs made up 5.8% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) (Mascarenhas-Keyes, 2006). Furthermore, the growth amongst EMB start-ups is estimated to be double that of total business start-ups (Barclays Bank, 2005). Policy interest in EMBs has been boosted by a twin preoccupation of promoting`enterprise' and of combating`social exclusion' (Blackburn and Ram, 2006). Publicly funded initiatives to support EMBs have been a feature of the small-firm policy agenda since the Brixton disturbances in the early 1980s. Although commitment to this policy objective has waxed and waned, there has nonetheless been a steady stream of initiatives over the last couple of decades (Ram and Smallbone, 2002; 2003). Contemporary concerns over the`integration' of new and increasingly diverse migrant communities (Castles et al, 2002; Vertovec, 2001) also fuel interest in the capacity of self-employment to promote social mobility (Lyon et al, 2006). This paper assesses key academic and policy developments in the UK, and presents an agenda for future research on ethnic-minority enterprise. Its objectives are threefold. The first objective is to outline the`conceptual base' that underpins policy initiatives towards ethnic-minority entrepreneurship. We argue that an`ethnic-resources' model has held undue influence upon policy and academic discourses in this field. Key drawbacks include the tendency towards cultural determinism and a neglect of the context that shapes ethnic-minority entrepreneurship. A`mixed-embeddedness' perspective, which recognises the economic and social context of EMBs, holds greater promise. The second objective is to assess the extent to which policy initiatives have kept pace with developments in the evidence base. The`crowded platform' that Storey (1994)

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Section: Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gendermentioning

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Ethnic-Minority Businesses in the UK: A Review of Research and Policy Developments

Ram

Jones

2008

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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“…One of the problems faced by policy makers and researchers in the UK with regard to female entrepreneurship is the lack of disaggregated data on female businesses and even less so on BME female businesses (Dawe and Fielden, 2005). The main sources of information on self-employment and business activity are the Labour Force Survey, VAT registration data, the population census and information from lenders about business bank accounts.…”

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The Strategic Framework for Women's Enterprise: BME women at the margins

Forson

2006

Equal Opportunities International

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“…Yet much of the research on female entrepreneurs in the UK has largely focused on the native population, and excluded the ethnic female perspective (Godwyn and Stoddard, 2011). Where there is focus on ethnic minority women (Dawe and Fielden, 2005; e.g. Davidson and Fielden, 2010), there is a tendency to either treat them as a homogenous group or focus primarily on South Asian women (Forson, 2010).…”

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Contextualising migrant black business women ' s work-life balance experiences

Forson

2013

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour &Amp; Research

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Purpose -Employing a feminist relational lens, the purpose of this paper is to explore the work-life balance experiences of black migrant women entrepreneurs, examining the relationship between macro, meso and micro levels of business activity. The paper examines the obstacles raised and opportunities enabled by the confrontation and negotiation between the private and public space. Design/methodology/approach -Qualitative methods are used and the paper draws on semi-structured in-depth interviews with 29 black women business owners in the legal and black hairdressing sectors in London. The analysis of the paper is informed by a relational approach that recognises the embedded nature of business activity in differing levels of social action. Findings -The analysis reveals that ability of the women in the study to manage their work-life balance was shaped by power relations and social interactions between and within cultural, structural and agentic dimensions of small business ownership. Originality/value -This paper contributes to the literature on business and entrepreneurial behaviour of women by embedding work-life balance experiences of black migrant women in context of relations between and within macro, meso and micro levels. It conceptualises the behaviour of the women in the study in terms of confrontations, negotiations and dialogue between notions of motherhood, femininity, family and entrepreneurship at the societal, institutional and individual levels. In so doing the paper expands the literature on minority entrepreneurship and underscores the interconnected nature of these three levels to produce unique experiences for individual migrant women.

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The Experiences of Asian Women Entering Business Start-up in the UK

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Ethnic-Minority Businesses in the UK: A Review of Research and Policy Developments

Ethnic-Minority Businesses in the UK: A Review of Research and Policy Developments

The Strategic Framework for Women's Enterprise: BME women at the margins

Contextualising migrant black business women ' s work-life balance experiences

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