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2. Background Literature Review

Authors : Albert N. Link, Laura T. R. Morrison

Published in: Innovative Activity in Minority-Owned and Women-Owned Business

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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In this chapter, we briefly summarize the literature related to the innovative activity of businesses with different demographic categories of ownership (Link & Strong, 2016). The dominant portion of this literature has focused on gender compared to minority ownership, and we reach that conclusion based on the amount of published research on each topic. Perhaps one explanation for the dominance of gender-related research on innovative activity rests in the fact that there is a paucity of data related to minority ownership and related business activities.

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Title: Background Literature Review
Authors: Albert N. Link
Laura T. R. Morrison
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Innovative Activity in Minority-Owned and Women-Owned Business
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-21533-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-21534-7

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21534-7_2