Abstract
The importance of ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) has been lauded in the entrepreneurship discourse. Building on entrepreneurial orientation theory, this study seeks to understand family influence on the entrepreneurial processes, practices, and decision-making activities in a relatively under-explored social group. The methodological approach in this study involved in-depth interviews with 10 entrepreneurs based in the United Kingdom. This study found strong social identity congruence behaviour of explored entrepreneurs from the point of how their entrepreneurial orientation is family-influence driven. For the entrepreneurs, the family is a central behaviour factor that exerts significantly on their entrepreneurial processes and decision making. As a result, actual judgement and decision making of entrepreneurs may not necessarily be driven by economic logic but largely by family control factors that even exert more significantly on entrepreneurial behaviour. This study contributes to the psychological and family control perspectives on entrepreneurship discourse. This study has two core limitations: it is based on the qualitative approach and explores only one social group. Future research in the form of quantitative studies that also examine other cultural enclaves would therefore help to enhance the causes and effects conclusions suggested in this study.
Highlights
Entrepreneurship literature has lauded the significant economic growth contribution of ethnic minority businesses ( EMBs) (e.g. Ram & Jones, 2008; Hajro, Zikic, & Caprar, 2018)
This study aims to contribute to the understanding of how family influence conditions the entrepreneurial processes of ethnic minority businesses
Responding to research advocacy for a psychological perspective in the illumination of family influence on entrepreneurial processes (e.g. De Massis & Foss, 2018; Jiang et al, 2017; Opute et al, 2020), this study explores how family influence affects the entrepreneurial orientation of ethnic minority businesses
Summary
Entrepreneurship literature has lauded the significant economic growth contribution of ethnic minority businesses ( EMBs) (e.g. Ram & Jones, 2008; Hajro, Zikic, & Caprar, 2018). Entrepreneurship literature has lauded the significant economic growth contribution of ethnic minority businesses ( EMBs) It is documented that migrant businesses contribute to inclusive and sustainable economic growth both in home and host communities Policy makers are intensifying initiatives directed at EMBs (Ram & Jones, 2008; Nwankwo, Madichie, & Ekwulugo, 2011). Hagos, Izak, & Scott, 2019; Ram, Jones, & Villares-Varela, 2017; Opute et al, 2020; Nwankwo, Akunuri, & Madichie, 2010). Opute et al (2020) document that a reasonable number of participating entrepreneurs exhibited core features that connect to family business literature, a conclusion that understandably lacked elaboration, as that was beyond the scope of that research. Towards enhancing the understanding of family business, an entrepreneurship domain that has gained increasing attention over the last two decades given the accumulating body of
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