Bourdieusian and resource-based perspectives on ethnic minority microbusinesses: The construction of a culture-induced entrepreneurship model

Muhibul Haq, Martin Johanson, Julie Davies, Wilson Ng and Léo-Paul Dana

Journal of Small Business Management, 2024, vol. 62, issue 4, 1982-2015

Abstract: In contemporary developed Western societies, structural discrimination often bars ethnic minorities from entering mainstream entrepreneurship and labor markets. Consequently, minorities engage in microentrepreneurship for economic survival and to retain their social identities. Yet despite the economic value of ethnic minority microbusinesses, little is known about the underlying forces that develop fundamental resources which shape their performance. Based on Bourdieu’s forms of capital and the resource-based view of the firm, our study presents a novel culture-induced entrepreneurship model. This model explains how ethnic minority culture shapes the development of human capital resources and how these resources contribute to business performance in communities which are often characterized as “left behind.” Our study challenges the dominant underdog discourse of (cultural) capital deficit among ethnic minority entrepreneurs.Video AbstractRead the transcriptWatch the video on Vimeo© 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Date: 2024
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