There is considerable interest among European politicians and policymakers in how to integrate migrants in the local and national economy. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 owners of Sub-Saharan African migrant family businesses (SSAMBs) in the United Kingdom, this article critically examines why SSAMBs fail or underperform. This investigation draws upon three streams of literature – notably migrant business failure, institutional theory and family embeddedness. The findings highlight the challenges of doing business and the reasons for business failure among this group. These are different from other small businesses and include culture, family interference and ethnicity. The main contribution of the article lies in the development of a conceptual model that highlights the relationships between institutional contexts and migrant family business outcomes. The model proposes that institution and family embeddedness results in the enactment of ethnic behaviours that drive migrant businesses into cultural markets leading to business underperformance or failure.

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制度和家庭嵌入在撒哈拉以南非洲移民家族企业失败中的作用

欧洲政治家和政策制定者对如何将移民融入当地和国家经济非常感兴趣。通过对英国 20 位撒哈拉以南非洲移民家族企业 (SSAMB) 所有者的深入定性访谈，本文批判性地研究了 SSAMB 失败或表现不佳的原因。这项调查借鉴了三类文献——特别是移民企业失败、制度理论和家庭嵌入。调查结果突出了这一群体中开展业务的挑战以及业务失败的原因。这些与其他小企业不同，包括文化、家庭干扰和种族。本文的主要贡献在于开发了一个概念模型，该模型强调了制度背景与移民家族企业成果之间的关系。该模型提出，制度和家庭嵌入导致种族行为的制定，这些行为驱使移民企业进入文化市场，导致企业业绩不佳或失败。