Abstract
This chapter compares the entrepreneurial attitudes, activity and aspiration of a representative sample of over 38,000 individuals in the United Kingdom. White life-long residents are found to have less awareness of and less favourable attitudes towards entrepreneurship than other ethnic/migrant categories. Those with black ethnic backgrounds appear to exhibit higher entrepreneurial propensity, but this does not translate into significantly higher levels of actual business ownership. Both UK-born regional inmigrants and immigrants are more likely to be high-expectation early-stage entrepreneurs than life-long residents. However, belonging to any of fifteen different ethnic minorities rather than white British appears to have no effect on the propensity to be a high-expectation early-stage entrepreneur.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship |
Subtitle of host publication | Evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Data |
Editors | Maria Minniti |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780191728716 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 22 Sept 2011 |
Keywords
- Entrepreneurship
- Ethnicity
- GEM
- Immigration
- In-migrants
- Minority
- Minority entrepreneurship
- United Kingdom