Market Potential as a Decisive Influence on the Performance of Ethnic Minority Business
Market Potential as a Decisive Influence on the Performance of Ethnic Minority Business
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市场潜力对少数族裔企业的业绩具有决定性影响
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2000
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D. McEvoy
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T. Jones;G. Barrett;D. McEvoy
自20世纪80年代初以来，许多学者都致力于理解少数民族企业的逆势崛起。几乎在整个发达资本主义领域，处于不利地位的种族化少数群体一直是创业大爆发的先锋，这已被视为这个时代的一个标志性特征。少数族裔企业的发展——这里的“发展”被理解为出现、数量增长、扩张，以及最重要的商业业绩和盈利能力——是一个非常矛盾的发展，难以解释——已经在大量、激增但有些令人困惑的文献中得到了解决（巴雷特等人，1996；拉姆和琼斯，即将出版）。在极端情况下，解释范围从移民作为其文化包袱的一部分将传统宗教信仰带入现代社会的创业性质（Werbner, 1984）；面对帕克（1994）所说的“种族主义和经济衰退的双重危险”（琼斯，1989），我把自主创业作为最后的生存选择。
Since the dawn of the 1980s much scholarly energy has been devoted to understanding the remarkable against-the-tide rise of ethnic business. Throughout virtually the entire advanced capitalist realm, members of disadvantaged racialised minorities have been in the vanguard of the entrepreneurial explosion that has come to be seen as a hallmark feature of the age. An acutely paradoxical development defying easy explanation, the development of minority-owned business — ‘development’ here being understood as emergence, numerical growth, expansion and, above all, commercial performance and earning capacity — has been addressed in a voluminous, proliferating and somewhat confusing literature (Barrett et al., 1996; Ram and Jones, forthcoming). At the extremes, explanations range from the entreprogenic properties of traditional religious beliefs imported by migrants into modern society as part of their cultural baggage (Werbner, 1984);1 to self-employment as a last-ditch survival option in the face of what Parker (1994) calls ‘the twin perils of racism and recession’ (Jones, 1989).