British Asian Entrepreneurs: Culture and Opportunity Structures

Tariq Modood, Hilary Metcalf and Satnam Virdee
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Tariq Modood: Policy Studies Institute
Hilary Metcalf: Policy Studies Institute
Satnam Virdee: PSI

Chapter 4 in Choice and Public Policy, 1998, pp 62-78 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Asian Britons have rapidly assumed a major role in small business. However, this prominence conceals substantial diversity in the pattern of entrepreneurship and the nature of business across the three main South Asian groups. Indians, Pakistanis and African Asians differ markedly in their approach to business and in their success. They also differ in terms of the economic resources they bring to self-employment and in the cultural values which surround their economic activities. This diversity allowed a study of South Asian entrepreneurs to examine the complex interaction between culture and economic rationality in economic behaviour.

Keywords: Family Business; Labour Market Condition; Upward Mobility; Opportunity Structure; South ASIANS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26302-8_4

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