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Ethnicity effects on the family business entrepreneurial pro

This commentary adopts a cross-disciplinary framework to discuss possible influences of both family and ethnicity on business performance in the marketplace. Both family and ethnicity are viewed as upstream factors that may help a business gain a favorable identity with potential stakeholders. Famil...

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Main Author: Harris, Ira C
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2009
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520 |a This commentary adopts a cross-disciplinary framework to discuss possible influences of both family and ethnicity on business performance in the marketplace. Both family and ethnicity are viewed as upstream factors that may help a business gain a favorable identity with potential stakeholders. Family businesses that have an ethnic background in common with customers, employees, and suppliers may receive preferential treatment. Communities may patronize a business simply because of an associated group identity. Thus, ethnic collectivism may alter some assumptions about family businesses and how they compete. 
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