THE EFFECTS OF ETHNICITY, FAMILIES AND CULTURE ON ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE: AN EXTENSION OF SUSTAINABLE FAMILY BUSINESS THEORY

Sharon M. Danes (), Jinhee Lee, Kathryn Stafford and Ramona Kay Zachary Heck
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Sharon M. Danes: Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, 290 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
Jinhee Lee: Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, 290 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
Kathryn Stafford: Department of Consumer Sciences, 1787 Neil Avenue, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1295, USA
Ramona Kay Zachary Heck: Department of Management, Baruch College, Box B9-240, One Bernard Baruch Way, NY 10010, USA

Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), 2008, vol. 13, issue 03, 229-268

Abstract: Entrepreneurs have been traditionally epitomized as rugged individuals garnering creative forces of innovation and technology. Applying this traditional, limited, and narrow view of entrepreneurship to ethnic firm creation and growth is to ignore or discount core cultural values of the ethnic contexts in which these firms operate. It is no longer possible to depend solely on human capital theory and household characteristic descriptions to understand the complex and interdependent relationships between the ethnic-owning family, its firm, and the community context in which the firm operates. This paper addresses the complex dynamic of ethnic firms with three purposes: (a) to provide a cultural context for the three ethnic groups composing the National Minority Business Owner Study; (b) to extend the Sustainable Family Business Theory, a dynamic, behaviorally-based, multi-dimensional family firm theory, by clarifying how it accommodates ethnic firm complexities within their cultural context, and (c) to derive implications for research, education and consulting with worldwide applications.

Keywords: Ethnic-family businesses; entrepreneurship; Sustainable Family Business Theory (SFBT) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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