African Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the UK: The Hidden Hand of Family Influence on Entrepreneurial Orientation

Abdullah Promise Opute; Chux Gervase Iwu; Risimati Maurice Khosa; Chukuakadibia Eresia-Eke; Sirak Berhe Hagos; Bridget Irene

doi:10.48132/hdbr.335

Authors

Abdullah Promise Opute GPROM Academic and Management Solutions, Germany. Visiting Scholar, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, United Kingdom https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6221-1856
Chux Gervase Iwu Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6290-9864
Risimati Maurice Khosa University of South Africa, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5968-6153
Chukuakadibia Eresia-Eke University of Pretoria, South Africa. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4008-474X
Sirak Berhe Hagos Integration Station CIC, United Kingdom. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2501-4700
Bridget Irene International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship, Coventry University, United Kingdom. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2864-4767

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48132/hdbr.335

Keywords:

Ethnic Minority Businesses, Entrepreneurial Orientation, Family Influence, Social and Human Capital, Entrepreneurial Decision Making, Social Identity Congruence

Abstract

The importance of ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) has been lauded in the entrepreneurship discourse. Building on entrepreneurial orientation theory, this study seeks to understand family influence on the entrepreneurial processes, practices, and decision-making activities in a relatively under-explored social group. The methodological approach in this study involved in-depth interviews with 10 entrepreneurs based in the United Kingdom. This study found strong social identity congruence behaviour of explored entrepreneurs from the point of how their entrepreneurial orientation is family-influence driven. For the entrepreneurs, the family is a central behaviour factor that exerts significantly on their entrepreneurial processes and decision making. As a result, actual judgement and decision making of entrepreneurs may not necessarily be driven by economic logic but largely by family control factors that even exert more significantly on entrepreneurial behaviour. This study contributes to the psychological and family control perspectives on entrepreneurship discourse. This study has two core limitations: it is based on the qualitative approach and explores only one social group. Future research in the form of quantitative studies that also examine other cultural enclaves would therefore help to enhance the causes and effects conclusions suggested in this study.

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