Pathway to Self-Employment: Entrepreneurship among Sub- Saharan Africans in Ohio

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Odoom Hyiamang
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Research indicates that structural conditions push immigrants such as sub-Saharan Africans into ethnic businesses in constructing or making their space, which is their environment. Among such ethnic businesses are entities like African grocery stores (African markets). This study was designed to explore the influences that prompted sub-Saharan African immigrants to open African grocery stores in four Ohio cities in the United States. Q methodology was used to render or indicate the behavior of immigrants in opening stores as action-based and real. Interviews with a number of grocery store operators generated some of the statements used in the study. Literature on three models of business creation, namely the structural, cultural, and interactive models, were used to generate additional statements for the study. The statements were given to 20 operators of African grocery stores in the four cities to rank how these experiences affected their decision to open grocery stores. Three factors emerged, suggesting that three groups of experiences prompted the operators to open the stores. These factors were related to the interactive model of business creation and were labeled demandopportunity, cultural-resources, and independence-aspiration. These results suggest that the pathway to entrepreneurship in the space of sub-Saharan Africans in Ohio cities is influenced by not just one factor, but by several experiences/factors that encouraged the immigrants to open businesses such as African grocery stores.
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Language	English
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Resource Type	Article