Think non-ethnic, but act ethnic: Perspectives from South Asian entrepreneurs

Ethnic entrepreneurs and online home-based businesses

Objectives The study considers how online home-based businesses offer opportunities for ethnic entrepreneurs to ‘break out’ of the traditional highly competitive and low margin sectors they are often associated with. Prior Work Previous studies have found a positive association between ethnic minorities high levels of entrepreneurship (Levie, 2007) and between home computer use and entrepreneur...

Ethnic Voters and Non-Ethnic Parties: Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina

While much scholarly attention has been paid to whether institutions encourage or discourage ethnic mobilization, many of these theories leave little room for the choices of individual voters and thus risk being overly deterministic. This paper seeks to define a rough theory that allows for individual voters to have varying preferences over the provision of public goods along ethnic or non-ethn...

eBusiness among Ethnic Minority Businesses: Ethnic Entrepreneurs’ ICT Adoption and Readiness

A small but growing body of evidence (SBS, 2004; Beckinsale & Ram, 2006) has indicated that Ethnic Minority Businesses (EMBs) have not adopted Information Communication Technology (ICT) at comparable rates to their non-EMB counterparts, predominantly Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). With EMBs accounting for almost 10% of businesses in the UK, the economic impact as ICT adoption contin...

Ethnic minorities and the Mental Health Act.

Cerebral palsy among Asian ethnic subgroups.

OBJECTIVE Asians have a reduced risk for cerebral palsy (CP) compared with whites. We examined whether individual Asian subgroups have a reduced risk of CP and whether differences in sociodemographic factors explain disparities in CP prevalence. METHODS In a retrospective cohort of 629 542 Asian and 2 109 550 white births in California from 1991 to 2001, we identified all children who qualifi...