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- 05 July 2023
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COVID 19 and role of digitalization in growth of immigrant and ethnic minority businesses
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- Proceedings of the 65th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business: International Business Resilience under Global Disruptions
Abstract
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.
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Bhattarai, N. & Pruthi, S. 2023, 'COVID 19 and role of digitalization in growth of immigrant and ethnic minority businesses', Proceedings of the 65th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business: International Business Resilience under Global Disruptions, pp. 123-123. https://research-portal.uws.ac.uk/en/publications/749ef4dd-0406-48f3-974f-cc401690559f