Future Research Opportunities: A Systematic Literature Review and Recommendations for Further Research into Minority Entrepreneurship

Mazzarol, Tim

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66603-3_23

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“…Firstly, better income is a key motivator. While Mazzarol (2021) showed that female minority entrepreneurs are less likely to be motivated by money than men, this study shows that money is an important reason. It can be linked to the other structural challenges, that act as pull motivators.…”

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confidence: 57%

“…For example, research in the USA focuses on ethnic groups as minorities (Dana & Vorobeva, 2021). Alternatively, the term has also been used to describe younger or older groups of entrepreneurs, female business owners, disabled people, or members of LGBTQIA+ (Mazzarol, 2021).…”

Section: Minority Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research on minority entrepreneurship has grown in importance over the past 15 years (Mazzarol, 2021). Entrepreneurs from minority groups make an important contribution to a country's economy, above all by creating jobs and generating economic activity in underserved communities (Sithas & Surangi, 2021).…”

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Minority Entrepreneurship in Switzerland: The Challenges and Needs of Brazilian Women Entrepreneurs

Meyer,

Schmutz,

Meyer

2023

ECIE

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The number of Brazilian citizens in Switzerland has risen significantly over the past decades by factor 24 compared to the total foreign population, which grew by factor 2.5. As with many migrant groups, integration into the labour market is difficult. This can lead to a higher number of people choosing to start their own business. Brazilians in their home country are more entrepreneurial than Swiss people and among Brazilian women, 17.3% are entrepreneurially active. This can partly be explained with less options on the labour market – a challenge that Brazilian women also experience in Switzerland. Therefore, entrepreneurship also became a viable career option abroad. Little is known about neither the businesses, the challenges, and the needs of female Brazilian entrepreneurs, nor of female entrepreneurs of other minority groups. This paper looked at these points to find out how they can be supported best to enhance their businesses. The findings will be of use for entrepreneurs themselves, as well as for supporting organisations to adapt their offerings. To get the required insights, we took a quantitative approach and surveyed 54 Brazilian women in Switzerland with an online questionnaire. The participants were members of a Brazilian women business club. The results were analysed using SPSS. The entrepreneurs came to Switzerland mainly for love and family reasons. The businesses are small, mainly targeting the Brazilian community and only a small minority can sustain themselves from their self-employment alone. While the financial success is rather low, the personal satisfaction of having a business is very high. The biggest challenges are finding customers, where also the biggest need for support is. The results show that the support structures are not accessible enough for founders from minority groups and that offerings need to be adjusted to have a broader reach.

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Minority Entrepreneurship in Switzerland: The Challenges and Needs of Brazilian Women Entrepreneurs

Meyer,

Schmutz,

Meyer

2023

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“…This study reinforces and further unpacks the recent assertion by marginalized entrepreneurship scholars that “there is nothing permanent about minority. There is nothing fixed about anything that can grow” (Mazzarol, 2021, p. 503). Ideas about the transitional nature of entrepreneurship (Pidduck and Clarke, 2021; Jones and Ram, 2021) and calls for a sociologically informed processual view (Martinez Dy, 2020) suggest but have yet to fully conceptualize mechanisms for progression out of disadvantaged positions.…”

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Building self-determination of disadvantaged groups: insights from an entrepreneurship focused program for refugees

Richey

Brooks²,

Ravishankar³

2022

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PurposeThis paper examines how entrepreneurship focused programs build capacities for disadvantaged groups to pursue more dignified lives. The struggles of disadvantaged entrepreneurs against pronounced structural constraints are well documented, but less is known about how targeted programs of entrepreneurship focused support change the status quo for disadvantaged communities.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is grounded in a mainly inductive, interpretive study and explores the work of an entrepreneurship focused program targeted at refugee participants. The paper reports on intensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews with 23 program participants in London, UK.FindingsThe empirical sections elaborate three key mechanisms supporting greater self-determination and better opportunities: building entrepreneurial intention, building contextual legitimacy and building proximal ties. These mechanisms empower disadvantaged groups to pursue a wide variety of meaningful goals, including but not limited to starting a business.Originality/valueThis paper draws attention to problems of over-emphasizing the disadvantaged entrepreneurs' agency. It uses the vocabulary of self-determination theory (SDT) and offers a psychosocial perspective of the consequences of disadvantage and the potential for entrepreneurship focused programs to build key capacities and improve precarious lives.

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“…Minority entrepreneur (ME) is a term coined originally in the economics and sociology literature (Mazzarol, 2021;Light, 1972). Historically, papers have defined minority entrepreneurs by using their operationalization of the construct, that is using the ethnic minority group or nationality of the sample being studied (e.g., Pegram et al, 2022Smith & Viceisza, 2018;Light, 1972).…”

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Three essays on minority entrepreneurship and resource acquisition

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Future Research Opportunities: A Systematic Literature Review and Recommendations for Further Research into Minority Entrepreneurship

Cited by 3 publications

References 234 publications

Minority Entrepreneurship in Switzerland: The Challenges and Needs of Brazilian Women Entrepreneurs

Minority Entrepreneurship in Switzerland: The Challenges and Needs of Brazilian Women Entrepreneurs

Building self-determination of disadvantaged groups: insights from an entrepreneurship focused program for refugees

Three essays on minority entrepreneurship and resource acquisition

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