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Universidad de Puerto Rico
2004
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- Second/Third Generation Asian Business Entrepreneurs in the Uk Spinder Dhaliwal Administración y Contabilidad UK SMEs UK Businesses Asian Entrepreneurs Ethnic Minority Businesses Second and Third Generation Business People The growth of Asian enterprises has been a much commented featureof the small business population. Asian entrepreneurs have been eulogizedby the popular press keen to laud free enterprise heroes. More detachedacademic commentary has also sought to identify the key success factorsfor this entrepreneurial minority. This paper seeks to explore the role ofthe second/third generation of British Asian entrepreneurs who werebrought up and educated in the UK. In order to analyze the position ofsecond/third generation Asians in business, a series of qualitative interviewswere undertaken with 10 respondents, five men and five women.The questions asked focus upon second generation banking, managementstyle, use of technology and expansion.This paper sheds light n a number of neglected issues within the increasinglyimportant area of ethnic entrepreneurship. First a clearer picture willemerge of the roles, responsibilities, vision and practices of this new generationof entrepreneurs. Second, methodologically the paper will be novelin so far as the gender and ethnicity issues are both taken into account.Half the respondents are women. Hence the study also aims to examinethe hitherto neglected issue of womens experiences in managing enterprises.Finally, policy makers are increasingly reminded to appreciate theneed of the diversity of ethnic minorities in business. 2004 artículo científico 1541-8561 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=63190202 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=631 Forum Empresarial application/pdf Universidad de Puerto Rico Forum Empresarial (Puerto Rico) Num.2 Vol.9