Business Ownership vs. Self-Employment

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Light ◽  
Robert Munk
Keyword(s):  
Business Ownership ◽  
Self Employment

Re-embedding the ethnic business agenda

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor Jones ◽  
Monder Ram
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Business Ownership ◽  
Ethnic Business ◽  
Self Employment

There has been a flurry of interest from academics and policy-makers alike in the growing phenomenon of ethnic minority entrepreneurship. Despite theoretical advances, there is a lingering tendency to isolate ethnic minority enterprise from the context in which it operates. This article argues for a re-embedding of ethnic minority owned firms in a broader, and longer established, tradition of small business ownership. A more `integrated' analysis is required for an adequate exposition of the different trajectories of ethnic minorities in self-employment, and also for the growing number of policy-makers engaged in supporting such businesses.

CONSTRAINTS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND THE DECISION TO PURSUE BUSINESS OWNERSHIP

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Bates ◽  
Stephen Tuck
Keyword(s):  
Black Business ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Business Ownership ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Personal Services ◽  
Black Entrepreneurs ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Made In

AbstractThe choice between working as an employee and owning a business is shaped by constraints and opportunities. Among African Americans, understanding why the entrepreneurial path is chosen requires evaluating not only the relative importance of constraints pushing workers toward self-employment versus opportunities pulling entrants into firm ownership, but, more fundamentally, the changing opportunity structures shaping occupational choices. This study focuses on the 1960s and 1970s period when specific constraints historically limiting entrepreneurial alternatives began to change dramatically. Findings indicate that expanding opportunities sharply altered the industry composition of the Black business community.Because economists view the decision to enter into business ownership as an exercise in freedom of choice made on the basis of one’s preferences, they tend not to appreciate that these decisions are made in specific socio-economic contexts and that changes in context matter. Facing altered opportunity structures, prospective Black entrepreneurs have often chosen to abandon fields offering low remuneration—particularly personal services—entering instead into higher yielding fields where creation of viable firms requires investment of capital by owners possessing appropriate expertise. This transformation has remolded the stagnant business community of the mid-1960s into a profoundly different, more dynamic one.

The Effects of Education on Business Ownership: A Longitudinal Study of Women

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur L. Dolinsky ◽  
Richard K. Caputo ◽  
Kishore Pasumarty ◽  
Hesan Quazi
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Business Ownership ◽  
Longitudinal Sample ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Capital Constraints

This study uses a national longitudinal sample of women to examine variations in the likelihood of entering, staying, and reentering self-employment by level of educational attainment. The study found that each likelihood increased with increasing levels of education. This finding supports the notion that less-educated women may face financial or human capital constraints which limit their business pursuits. The study also identified to what extent differences in each likelihood contributed to the overall difference in the likelihood of being self-employed between more- and less-educated women. Of the three, differences in the likelihood of entry accounted for most of the overall difference in the likelihood of being self-employed between the more and less educated.

Business Ownership versus Self-Employment

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-468
Author(s):  
Audrey Light ◽  
Robert Munk
Keyword(s):  
Business Ownership ◽  
Self Employment
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