Banking on 'break-out': Finance and the development of ethnic minority businesses

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 663-681

  Ram, Monder ^a   Smallbone, David ^a   Deakins, David ^b   Jones, Trevor ^c  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Break out; Ethnic minority businesses; Financial capital; Human capital

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; ENTREPRENEUR; ETHNIC MINORITY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0142166793     PISSN: 1369183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369183032000123440     Document Type: Article

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