The evolution of the social understanding of ethnic entrepreneurship: results from a bibliometric analysis of the literature
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2013
Citazione:
The evolution of the social understanding of ethnic entrepreneurship: results from a bibliometric analysis of the literature / A. Ganzaroli, L. Orsi, I. De Noni. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SMALL BUSINESS. - ISSN 1476-1297. - 20:4(2013), pp. 383-401. [10.1504/IJESB.2013.057198]
Abstract:
There is growing attention toward the role of ethnic entrepreneurship
as a potential source of social integration and economic growth. Despite this
recent interest, there is in fact a long tradition of studies focusing on ethnic
entrepreneurship. Furthermore, there are also a number of qualitative literature
reviews that attempt to systematise the main findings in this field of study. We
contribute to existing literature by providing a more objective representation of
how this concept has evolved on the basis of a bibliometric review of the
literature. Our results are based on a sample of 102 publications published on
this topic since 1990. Our main contribution is to show that the concept of
ethnic entrepreneurship has evolved into three phases. In the first phase,
scholars focused mainly on cultural factors in order to explain the differences in
entrepreneurship across ethnic communities. In the second phase, the focus
shifted toward the structure of opportunities available in the host society.
Nowadays, scholars are focusing on the role of networking and embeddedness,
and on the creation of seedbed conditions for the development of ethnic
entrepreneurship in metropolitan areas
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Ethnic entrepreneurship ; Multicultural entrepreneurship ; Immigrant entrepreneurship ; Bibliometric analysis ; Citation analysis
Elenco autori:
A. Ganzaroli, L. Orsi, I. De Noni
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