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This paper seeks to evaluate the cultural variables which influence the growth of Turkish speaking ethnic minority businesses in London, UK.

The paper reports and analyses the findings of 227 face‐to‐face structured interviews with Turkish small business owners.

This study illustrates that there is a relationship between fluency in English and business growth in all sectors. Education appears to be an important variable for the business growth of the firms in the catering and service sectors. Reliance on co‐ethnic market is a key contributor to growth of firms in the retailing sector.

Data collection was limited to London; and non‐Turkish small business owners were excluded. Therefore, care should be taken in making generalisations from the sample.

This paper illuminates challenges ethnic minority small business owners may face in their determination to grow and highlights the options that they may consider as part of their growth strategies.

In terms of theoretical value, the findings of this study clearly demonstrated linkage between internal and external environments of entrepreneurship thus providing support for the “mixed embeddedness” approach to explaining ethnic minority business growth. What is distinctive in this study is that it recognises the need for ethnic minority small business owners to scan the dynamics of business growth and the survival process.

The purpose of this paper is to deepen the understanding of the predictors and outcomes of knowledge sharing in a franchise system. An integrative framework is proposed to examine the influence of franchisee self-leadership on knowledge sharing and its subsequent influence on franchisee satisfaction and compliance.

On the basis of a survey of 111 franchisees of two leading bakery franchise brands in Korea, this study confirmed data validity and tested hypotheses by adopting partial least square–structural equation modeling.

Regarding the predictor of knowledge sharing, this research found that franchisee self-leadership has a positive effect on knowledge sharing. As outcomes, it found that active knowledge sharing has a positive effect on franchisee satisfaction and compliance. This study also shows that knowledge sharing mediates the relationship between self-leadership and franchisee satisfaction.

This research advises franchisors to actively develop programs and communication channels for knowledge sharing with franchisees to induce high levels of compliance and satisfaction. Furthermore, as selecting potential franchisees is key to the success of franchising, this research highlights the significance of self-leadership as a crucial personal trait of franchisees.

Despite the rapidly growing academic interest in franchise knowledge sharing, sparse theoretical approaches and empirical evidence are available. To address these limitations, this research presents an integrative model and empirical evidence.