ADM 2313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Scottish Enterprise, Byrsonima Crassifolia, Root Mean Square

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2313
• Professor: Mark Freel

Document Summary

Mainstream agencies have adopted more inclusive policies e. g. , business. > accept work practices that indigenous workers would not. > operate in areas shunned by mainstream indigenous workforce. > many of these businesses emerged from and are embedded in communities which grew out of post-war demand for low-skill and low-wage labour, particularly in manufacturing . > a culturalist" approach: research on embs is frequently predicated on the notion that they are di erent". > according to this view, ethnic minorities face a number of material constraints, notably racial discrimination, which limit their labour market opportunities. In an e ort to negotiate these constraints, ethnic minorities turn to small enterprises (as owners and workers). Hence, ethnic minority business activity often arises out of a context of disadvantage rather than the development of particularistic ethnic resources . > interplay between internal group resource dynamics and external opportunity structures".