Book
Ethnic business enterprise: Korean small business in Atlanta
Center for Migration Studies • New York • Published In 1988 • Pages:
By: Min, Pyong Gap.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book explains the tendency of Korean immigrants to engage in small business and self-employment in the pursuit of an economic livelihood in the Atlanta, Georgia area of the United States. In this study the author attempts to answer three questions: (1) what are the factors that lead Korean immigrants to turn to small business; (2) what are the factors that facilitate the establishment of Korean small business; and (3) how successful are Koreans in small business and why? This work also examines various minority business theories in light of the Korean case as well as racial segregation patterns in American cities which encourage the development of Korean small business. Other topics discussed in this work are immigration, Korean cultural values, family and kinship ties in relation to the business world, the variety of Korean business enterprises and their physical locations in Atlanta.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Mercantile business
- Occupational specialization
- Labor supply and employment
- Ownership and control of capital
- Sodalities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Korean Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1970-1982
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Pyong Gap Min
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-176) and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Korean Americans