Haq, Muhibul;
Davies, Julie;
(2020)
“The person with maximum knowledge will win the race”: Conceptualizing knowledge in microbusinesses.
Journal of Small Business Management
10.1080/00472778.2020.1768799.
(In press).
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Abstract
The concept of knowledge and the process of knowledge sharing in ethnic minority microbusinesses remain neglected in contemporary debates even if their role for economic development is recognized. Drawing on a culturalist view, we explore how knowledge is defined and shared in a local niche market. Thematic analysis of semistructured qualitative interviews with 32 owner-managers and 11 employee-managers reveals that, contrary to studies on larger firms, local knowledge creation and sharing narrowly based on ethnic strengths are valuable sources of competitive advantage. Our study has implications for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in exploring, supporting, and integrating ethnic minority microbusinesses.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | “The person with maximum knowledge will win the race”: Conceptualizing knowledge in microbusinesses |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00472778.2020.1768799 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00472778.2020.1768799 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2020 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Knowledge; knowledge sharing; microbusinesses; South Asian ethnic minority; West Yorkshire |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10144140 |
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