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British Asian Entrepreneurs: Culture and Opportunity Structures

In: Choice and Public Policy

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  • Tariq Modood

    (Policy Studies Institute)

  • Hilary Metcalf

    (Policy Studies Institute)

  • Satnam Virdee

    (PSI)

Abstract

Asian Britons have rapidly assumed a major role in small business. However, this prominence conceals substantial diversity in the pattern of entrepreneurship and the nature of business across the three main South Asian groups. Indians, Pakistanis and African Asians differ markedly in their approach to business and in their success. They also differ in terms of the economic resources they bring to self-employment and in the cultural values which surround their economic activities. This diversity allowed a study of South Asian entrepreneurs to examine the complex interaction between culture and economic rationality in economic behaviour.

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  • Tariq Modood & Hilary Metcalf & Satnam Virdee, 1998. "British Asian Entrepreneurs: Culture and Opportunity Structures," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter Taylor-Gooby (ed.), Choice and Public Policy, chapter 4, pages 62-78, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-26302-8_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26302-8_4
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