Ethnic minority businesses and immigrant entrepreneurship in Greece
Purpose The present paper aims to report and analyse empirical data from 391 ethnic minority entrepreneurs and 132 of their family members, from eight different ethnic communities of Albanians, Armenians, Bulgarians, Chinese, Georgians, Indians, Nigerians and Russians in Greece.Design/methodology/approach The paper presents empirical data from face to face interview type research conducted between January 2006 and August 2008 in the regions of Attica and Central Macedonia, Greece. The selection criteria used for the inclusion of enterprises in the ethnic minority business (EMB) database were: ethnicity of the business owner; sectors, including traditional sectors and emerging sectors of EMB; and finally location, i.e. in the regions of Attica and Central Macedonia.Findings The findings of this research point to the fact that the three theories of "block mobility" "opportunity structures" and "ethnic resources" complement each other in explaining the process of starting up an ethnic minority busines.