GENDERED PROCESSES OF KOREAN SMALL BUSINESS OWNERSHIP - Lee, Eunju
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This study examines how Korean immigrant women and men from the New York City metropolitan area become owners of small businesses. Interviews with owners and their family workers at seventy Korean-owned small businesses in three service and retail industries were conducted and supplemented by ethnographic observations, the 1990 Census, and interviews with informers.
Patriarchal family relations, which emphasize male authority and female compliance, are key to understanding the current phenomenon of Korean immigrant entrepreneurship: how immigrants become owners, how businesses are run, and finally why they achieve a great degree of success.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This study examines how Korean immigrant women and
men from the New York City metropolitan area become
owners of small businesses. Interviews with owners
and their family workers at seventy Korean-owned
small businesses in three service and retail
industries were conducted and supplemented by
ethnographic observations, the 1990 Census, and
interviews with informers.

Patriarchal family relations, which emphasize male
authority and female compliance, are key to
understanding the current phenomenon of Korean
immigrant entrepreneurship: how immigrants become
owners, how businesses are run, and finally why they
achieve a great degree of success.
Autorenporträt
Eunju Lee is Assistant Research Professor at School of Social
Welfare, University at Albany. Dr. Lee received her bachelor s
degree from Ewha Women s University in Korea and studied issues
related to gender equity, family policy, race and ethnicity, and
immigrant adaptation during her doctoral study in Sociology.