Exploring innovation in challenging contexts: The experiences of ethnic minority restaurant owners during COVID-19

Korede, T., Al Mamun, A., Lassalle, P. and Giazitzoglu, A. (2021) Exploring innovation in challenging contexts: The experiences of ethnic minority restaurant owners during COVID-19. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

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Abstract:	This article explores how Bangladeshi immigrants who run and own restaurants in the West Midlands of England (UK) participated in forms of innovation in response to the challenges created by COVID-19. Contributing to debates on innovation and diversification in the ethnic minority entrepreneurship literature, we explore through qualitative interview data how restaurant owners innovatively engaged with particular resources to secure their survival and longer-term futures in localised economies. This form of innovation is significant as it occurs among a population of entrepreneurs who have traditionally been portrayed as reluctant to innovate and embrace change. Our study therefore explores how a long-held culturally rooted reluctance to innovate intersects with a contemporary need to innovate for a demographic responding to the crisis. We theorise the form of innovation we identify as situated between a forced bricolage and a neoclassical approach to innovation.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth
Creators:	Korede, Tayo, Al Mamun, Abdullah, Lassalle, Paul and Giazitzoglu, Andreas
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	Faculties > Faculty of Business & Law > International Strategy & Business University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Sustainable Business Practices Research Centres > Centre for Sustainable Business Practices
Date:	30 October 2021
Date Type:	Publication
Journal or Publication Title:	The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Number of Pages:	13
Language:	English
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1177/14657503211051219
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	Yes
Related URLs:	https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/public...
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/16214

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