Navigating ethnic entrepreneurship in religion and culture meld

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine ethnic entrepreneurship within the contexts of religion, cultural hybridity, segregation, diasporic network and enterprise.

Design/methodology/approach

The study collected two sets of data from 15 black African respondents/entrepreneurs through face-to-face interviews in London, UK.

Findings

Findings point to immigrants’ entrepreneurial adaptation through traditional and dogmatic interpretations of religious beliefs in the informal sector.

Originality/value

The paper offers fresh insights into the religion/faith and socio-cultural meld in the sagacity of black African entrepreneurship. Such insights afford great opportunities to construct new sites of meaning or frame new explanations of entrepreneurship among the ethnic group – using religion and culture as important environmental munificence.

Citation

Ojo, S. (2019), "Navigating ethnic entrepreneurship in religion and culture meld", Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, Vol. 13 No. 5, pp. 625-646. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEC-11-2018-0089