TY - CPAPER
AU - Bhattarai, Narayan Prasad
AU - Pruthi, Sarika
PY - 2023
DA - July
TI - COVID 19 and role of digitalization in growth of immigrant and ethnic minority businesses
EP - 123
AB - The significance of immigrants and ethnic minority entrepreneurs (IEMEs) is well acknowledged worldwide. Limited resources and the use of ever-changing technologies coinciding with the Covid pandemic raise questions about how IEMEs combine financial and technological resources to achieve growth. There is evidence on the role of resources in IEMEs’ venture founding but less on their growth strategies. Drawing on four phases of interviews with 31 IEMEs in the UK, our findings suggest that IEMEs are heterogenous in their growth paths depending on their financial and technological resources. We found four categories of IEMEs achieving different growth strategies ranging from survival and growth in ethnic enclaves to rapid internationalization based on their financial and technological resource capabilities. We discuss the implications of these findings for theory and practice.
PB - Academy of International Business
UR - https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/publications/749ef4dd-0406-48f3-974f-cc401690559f
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Digital health and technology
KW - Minority groups
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