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Papers by Sibylle Heilbrunn
Sustainability, Sep 16, 2020
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Mar 28, 2023
Springer eBooks, Oct 4, 2018
The purpose of the study was to understand why women migrants enter precarious self-employment at... more The purpose of the study was to understand why women migrants enter precarious self-employment at the margins of the formal economy. More specifically, the study asked to explore and document the intersection of gender, precarious forms of self-employment and migration status at various locations on the continuum of the formal and informal economic sector. The author conducted eight interviews with female migrant self-employed owners of mostly micro businesses applying criterion sampling method. The findings revealed that locating the business in the formal sector of the economy went along with belonging to a migration group with more human, social and cultural capital, being less discriminated against, better coping with obstacles and barriers and less exposure to precariousness. Those businesses located in the informal economic were established by migrant women belonging to the most marginalized group of Israeli society, triple disadvantaged as being women, migrants and black, not being able to cope with barriers and obstacles and high exposure to precariousness.
Springer eBooks, Sep 13, 2018
Jonny is an Eritrean refugee in his 30s, who lives with his wife and daughter in Tel Aviv, Israel... more Jonny is an Eritrean refugee in his 30s, who lives with his wife and daughter in Tel Aviv, Israel. Jonny was forcefully recruited to the Eritrean army in 2007. On February 5 2009, when guarding the Ethiopian border at night, he crossed the border and simply walked away. Today, Jonny is the sole owner of a kindergarten and daycare center for children of the Eritrean community. Overcoming the many barriers resulting from an institutional void in Tel Aviv, Jonny has a powerful story—about an asylum seeker in Tel Aviv, who is also an entrepreneur and community leader, bricoleuring in an institutional void.
International Journal of Emerging Markets
PurposeThis study explored the mediating effect of political embeddedness on the relationship bet... more PurposeThis study explored the mediating effect of political embeddedness on the relationship between gender and performance of private enterprises in the emerging economy of China. Political embeddedness is examined in terms of personal characteristics of owners and their firm.Design/methodology/approachSecondary data were collected from the Chinese Private Enterprises Survey for the years 2002, 2006, 2014 and 2016 using responses to identical questions. Tobit models were implemented to examine hypotheses related to the gender gap. A bootstrapping approach was applied to examine hypotheses related to mediation through political embeddedness.FindingsThe gender effect on enterprise performance was found to be partially mediated by political embeddedness at the personal level and even more strongly by political embeddedness at the firm level, which is beyond the well-known mediation effect of bank loans.Research limitations/implicationsThe Chinese sample, in which guanxi plays a signi...
Routledge eBooks, Oct 18, 2022
Routledge eBooks, Oct 18, 2022
Routledge eBooks, Oct 18, 2022
Routledge eBooks, Oct 18, 2022
International Journal of Research in Commerce, IT and Management, 2012
Informal Ethnic Entrepreneurship, 2018
The purpose of the study was to understand why women migrants enter precarious self-employment at... more The purpose of the study was to understand why women migrants enter precarious self-employment at the margins of the formal economy. More specifically, the study asked to explore and document the intersection of gender, precarious forms of self-employment and migration status at various locations on the continuum of the formal and informal economic sector. The author conducted eight interviews with female migrant self-employed owners of mostly micro businesses applying criterion sampling method. The findings revealed that locating the business in the formal sector of the economy went along with belonging to a migration group with more human, social and cultural capital, being less discriminated against, better coping with obstacles and barriers and less exposure to precariousness. Those businesses located in the informal economic were established by migrant women belonging to the most marginalized group of Israeli society, triple disadvantaged as being women, migrants and black, not being able to cope with barriers and obstacles and high exposure to precariousness.
Refugee Entrepreneurship, 2018
Jonny is an Eritrean refugee in his 30s, who lives with his wife and daughter in Tel Aviv, Israel... more Jonny is an Eritrean refugee in his 30s, who lives with his wife and daughter in Tel Aviv, Israel. Jonny was forcefully recruited to the Eritrean army in 2007. On February 5 2009, when guarding the Ethiopian border at night, he crossed the border and simply walked away. Today, Jonny is the sole owner of a kindergarten and daycare center for children of the Eritrean community. Overcoming the many barriers resulting from an institutional void in Tel Aviv, Jonny has a powerful story—about an asylum seeker in Tel Aviv, who is also an entrepreneur and community leader, bricoleuring in an institutional void.
Global Migration, Entrepreneurship and Society, 2021
This chapter explores how challenges potentially encourage refugees to engage in entrepreneurial ... more This chapter explores how challenges potentially encourage refugees to engage in entrepreneurial activities and which adaptive mechanisms they employ in order to overcome the challenges. Semi-structured interviews with 12 refugee entrepreneurs were conducted in order to understand the underlying processes of the dynamics of challenges and adaptive mechanism within which the entrepreneurial outcomes emerged. The empirical findings of the study are evaluated in line with the parameters of the challenge-based model of entrepreneurship. A more nuanced picture of underdog entrepreneurs emerges along with a deeper understanding of the entrepreneurial activities of refugees.
European Management Review, 2020
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 2019
Purpose In an extreme and intentional institutional void, African refugees in Israel are bricoleu... more Purpose In an extreme and intentional institutional void, African refugees in Israel are bricoleuring by building an entrepreneurship market next to an “open” detention camp. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how refugee entrepreneurs overcome institutional voids through bricolage in an illegal marketplace outside the detention camp. Design/methodology/approach In order to deal with the question of why and how people act entrepreneurial under extreme circumstances, the interpretive/social constructionist paradigm is applied in form of the multiple stories milieu case study pattern. Data were gathered via official reports, interviews and observations. Findings Outside the detention camp it is via bricolage that entrepreneurs address the economic detour in the intentional institutional void. At a place which is meant to make asylum seekers leave Israel by coining them “infiltrators” and by “making their lives miserable,” bricoleurs attend their own and the needs of fellow detain...
Applied Soft Computing, 2017
Women’s Voices in Management, 2015
Policymakers and academics consider entrepreneurship as a source of economic and social developme... more Policymakers and academics consider entrepreneurship as a source of economic and social development. As an economic and social phenomenon, entrepreneurship is embedded within social rules and norms that impact its developments and features. Drawing on institutional theory (North, 1990; Scott, 1995), we assume that the entrepreneurial process is sensitive to social, economic, and political environmental factors that shape the process via opportunities and constraints impacting different groups to different extents.
Sustainability, Sep 16, 2020
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Mar 28, 2023
Springer eBooks, Oct 4, 2018
The purpose of the study was to understand why women migrants enter precarious self-employment at... more The purpose of the study was to understand why women migrants enter precarious self-employment at the margins of the formal economy. More specifically, the study asked to explore and document the intersection of gender, precarious forms of self-employment and migration status at various locations on the continuum of the formal and informal economic sector. The author conducted eight interviews with female migrant self-employed owners of mostly micro businesses applying criterion sampling method. The findings revealed that locating the business in the formal sector of the economy went along with belonging to a migration group with more human, social and cultural capital, being less discriminated against, better coping with obstacles and barriers and less exposure to precariousness. Those businesses located in the informal economic were established by migrant women belonging to the most marginalized group of Israeli society, triple disadvantaged as being women, migrants and black, not being able to cope with barriers and obstacles and high exposure to precariousness.
Springer eBooks, Sep 13, 2018
Jonny is an Eritrean refugee in his 30s, who lives with his wife and daughter in Tel Aviv, Israel... more Jonny is an Eritrean refugee in his 30s, who lives with his wife and daughter in Tel Aviv, Israel. Jonny was forcefully recruited to the Eritrean army in 2007. On February 5 2009, when guarding the Ethiopian border at night, he crossed the border and simply walked away. Today, Jonny is the sole owner of a kindergarten and daycare center for children of the Eritrean community. Overcoming the many barriers resulting from an institutional void in Tel Aviv, Jonny has a powerful story—about an asylum seeker in Tel Aviv, who is also an entrepreneur and community leader, bricoleuring in an institutional void.
International Journal of Emerging Markets
PurposeThis study explored the mediating effect of political embeddedness on the relationship bet... more PurposeThis study explored the mediating effect of political embeddedness on the relationship between gender and performance of private enterprises in the emerging economy of China. Political embeddedness is examined in terms of personal characteristics of owners and their firm.Design/methodology/approachSecondary data were collected from the Chinese Private Enterprises Survey for the years 2002, 2006, 2014 and 2016 using responses to identical questions. Tobit models were implemented to examine hypotheses related to the gender gap. A bootstrapping approach was applied to examine hypotheses related to mediation through political embeddedness.FindingsThe gender effect on enterprise performance was found to be partially mediated by political embeddedness at the personal level and even more strongly by political embeddedness at the firm level, which is beyond the well-known mediation effect of bank loans.Research limitations/implicationsThe Chinese sample, in which guanxi plays a signi...
Routledge eBooks, Oct 18, 2022
Routledge eBooks, Oct 18, 2022
Routledge eBooks, Oct 18, 2022
Routledge eBooks, Oct 18, 2022
International Journal of Research in Commerce, IT and Management, 2012
Informal Ethnic Entrepreneurship, 2018
The purpose of the study was to understand why women migrants enter precarious self-employment at... more The purpose of the study was to understand why women migrants enter precarious self-employment at the margins of the formal economy. More specifically, the study asked to explore and document the intersection of gender, precarious forms of self-employment and migration status at various locations on the continuum of the formal and informal economic sector. The author conducted eight interviews with female migrant self-employed owners of mostly micro businesses applying criterion sampling method. The findings revealed that locating the business in the formal sector of the economy went along with belonging to a migration group with more human, social and cultural capital, being less discriminated against, better coping with obstacles and barriers and less exposure to precariousness. Those businesses located in the informal economic were established by migrant women belonging to the most marginalized group of Israeli society, triple disadvantaged as being women, migrants and black, not being able to cope with barriers and obstacles and high exposure to precariousness.
Refugee Entrepreneurship, 2018
Jonny is an Eritrean refugee in his 30s, who lives with his wife and daughter in Tel Aviv, Israel... more Jonny is an Eritrean refugee in his 30s, who lives with his wife and daughter in Tel Aviv, Israel. Jonny was forcefully recruited to the Eritrean army in 2007. On February 5 2009, when guarding the Ethiopian border at night, he crossed the border and simply walked away. Today, Jonny is the sole owner of a kindergarten and daycare center for children of the Eritrean community. Overcoming the many barriers resulting from an institutional void in Tel Aviv, Jonny has a powerful story—about an asylum seeker in Tel Aviv, who is also an entrepreneur and community leader, bricoleuring in an institutional void.
Global Migration, Entrepreneurship and Society, 2021
This chapter explores how challenges potentially encourage refugees to engage in entrepreneurial ... more This chapter explores how challenges potentially encourage refugees to engage in entrepreneurial activities and which adaptive mechanisms they employ in order to overcome the challenges. Semi-structured interviews with 12 refugee entrepreneurs were conducted in order to understand the underlying processes of the dynamics of challenges and adaptive mechanism within which the entrepreneurial outcomes emerged. The empirical findings of the study are evaluated in line with the parameters of the challenge-based model of entrepreneurship. A more nuanced picture of underdog entrepreneurs emerges along with a deeper understanding of the entrepreneurial activities of refugees.
European Management Review, 2020
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 2019
Purpose In an extreme and intentional institutional void, African refugees in Israel are bricoleu... more Purpose In an extreme and intentional institutional void, African refugees in Israel are bricoleuring by building an entrepreneurship market next to an “open” detention camp. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how refugee entrepreneurs overcome institutional voids through bricolage in an illegal marketplace outside the detention camp. Design/methodology/approach In order to deal with the question of why and how people act entrepreneurial under extreme circumstances, the interpretive/social constructionist paradigm is applied in form of the multiple stories milieu case study pattern. Data were gathered via official reports, interviews and observations. Findings Outside the detention camp it is via bricolage that entrepreneurs address the economic detour in the intentional institutional void. At a place which is meant to make asylum seekers leave Israel by coining them “infiltrators” and by “making their lives miserable,” bricoleurs attend their own and the needs of fellow detain...
Applied Soft Computing, 2017
Women’s Voices in Management, 2015
Policymakers and academics consider entrepreneurship as a source of economic and social developme... more Policymakers and academics consider entrepreneurship as a source of economic and social development. As an economic and social phenomenon, entrepreneurship is embedded within social rules and norms that impact its developments and features. Drawing on institutional theory (North, 1990; Scott, 1995), we assume that the entrepreneurial process is sensitive to social, economic, and political environmental factors that shape the process via opportunities and constraints impacting different groups to different extents.