Ethnic-minority businesses in the UK: a review of research and policy developments

In recent years there have been important academic and policy-related developments in thefield of ethnic-minority entrepreneurship in the UK. It is a subject that is marked by increasingtheoretical sophistication and activity on the part of policy makers and practitioners. We investigatethe principal theoretical and policy developments in UK research, and identify issues for futureinvestigation. In relation to theoretical developments, the contribution of a `mixed-embeddedness'perspective is highlighted; this stresses the importance of social, economic, and institutionalprocesses (rather than `ethnic culture').[...]