The role of the social network (network) on entrepreneural intention in ethnic (minority) entrepreneurship: A research in the jewelry sector

"Ethnic/minority entrepreneurial intention, minorities to find the environment in which they will operate suitable for their activities, they believe that can acess the necessary resources with the actors in their social environment and the connections between them, their previous experience, creation/creativity, knowledge/skills and willingness to remain independent (autonomy) from others (resident population) in line with, it is the desire to start the activity. If it is push-pull-creation theory; it is based on the assumption that the positive/negative effects that lead a person to start an entrepreneurial activity have a positive effect on the intention of the person to establish and initiate his/her own entreprise. If we look at the concept of social networks, it is expressed by a group of actors and the connections between them. This thesis focuses on the role of social networks on entrepreneurial intention in minority entrepreneurship. In this study, which was carried out using the phenomenology pattern, one of the qualitative research designs, the jewelery sector was determined to be a research area because it is a sector that is widely preferred by minority entrepreneurs in Turkey. As a result of the research, the perception level of all variables except "other social network members" / "master" in the main theme/ sub-theme and in codes of the minority jewelery entrepreneurs research model in the jewelery sector was determined in accordance with the theoretical framework in the literature. Keywords: Minority Entrepreneurship, Ethnic Entrepreneurship, Social Networks, Co-Ethnic Social Networks, Entrepreneurial Intention, Jewelery Sector, Grand Bazaar, Qualitative Research, Phenomonology Pattern, MAXQDA 2020