It has been recognized that marginality is the explanatory variable for entrepreneurship among marginal groups, however, not all marginal groups are entrepreneurial. Some ethnic groups, and as Haitians interviewed in this empirical study, have a culture which neither looks favourably upon, nor encourages entrepreneurship as a desirable means of livelihood. For some, entrepreneurship tends to be seen as an occupation of last resort, considered only when other possibilities have failed. On the other hand, ethnic origin is by itself not an adequate explanatory variable either. Indian entrepreneurs often complain that they would not be entrepreneurs in their native environment. Environment (regulation, taxation, ethnic network etc.) may enhance or curtail entrepreneurial spirit. For some groups, entrepreneurial behaviour is culturally desirable; among others, it is a means of coping with marginality, i.e. necessity breeds entrepreneurship. This study also suggests that its respondents had entrepreneu...
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Léo‐Paul Dana (1993) studied this question.