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Entrepreneurship as Ethnic Minority Liberation. Research Paper No 11.
Published: 6 October 2013
Entrepreneurship has long been seen as a route to socio-economic advancement for disadvantaged communities. This paper explores to what extent ethnic minority entrepreneurship promotes socio-economic advancement and suggests that the context in which the entrepreneurship exists is an important determinant and that entrepreneurship itself cannot be seen as the only or preferred route.
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- Diversity
- Entrepreneurship
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