Ethnicity Effects on the Family Business Entrepreneurial Process
从跨学科视角探讨家族和族裔作为上游因素如何影响企业在市场中的表现，指出与客户、员工和供应商共享族裔背景的家族企业可能获得优待，族裔集体主义会改变对家族企业竞争方式的假设。
This commentary adopts a cross-disciplinary framework to discuss possible influences of both family and ethnicity on business performance in the marketplace. Both family and ethnicity are viewed as “upstream factors” that may help a business gain a favorable identity with potential stakeholders. Family businesses that have an ethnic background in common with customers, employees, and suppliers may receive preferential treatment. Communities may patronize a business simply because of an associated group identity. Thus, ethnic collectivism may alter some assumptions about family businesses and how they compete.