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Immigrant Entrepreneurship: A Theoretical Framework
IJAMRS, 2024
This article presents and delves deeply to the concepts and definitions related to immigrant entrepreneurship, especially in the East European countries in the world. Authors have classified typology of immigrant entrepreneurship as preliminary perquisites to present the conditions of their development in any aspect such as legal, economic, political and geographical ones.
This paper touches upon the topic of migrant entrepreneurship and the markets where it exists. My arguments are drawn on the basis of the embeddedness of entrepreneurship in social networks at a local and transnational level. In a scenario where it is assumed that immigrants arrive into a host society in search of employment, the scholarship of entrepreneurship of migrant-origin persons has several topics to be investigated. There is published literature about ethnic entrepreneurship, immigrants' owners in the labour market and transnational connections with the host society. This paper attempts to contribute to the state of art by comparing the phenomenon of nascent entrepreneurship between mature and innovative markets, stressing the role of transnational connections and immigrants' integration. Immigrant entrepreneurs can be involved in very diverse initiatives in several sectors of the economy. This situation leads to the question to be answered with this papers: which kind of migrant entrepreneurship makes use of their connections at local, national and international levels to acquire resources and ideas for their business? The analysis is sustained on theoretical work about the emergence of entrepreneurs connected with the idea of embeddedness of economic activities in social relations. The case of transnational entrepreneurship helps to geographically situate immigrant entrepreneurs, their connections and social ties across their countries of migratory experience. The comparison of mature and innovative markets explains differences in the profile of immigrant entrepreneurs in the process to acquire funding and in the use of ethnic communities. The conclusion stresses the persistent disadvantages for immigrants at the lower end of the market and the opportunities at the upper end. There is a potential to conduct research on transnational entrepreneurship of immigrants as a possible path for integration. IMISCOE Annual Conference - Rights, Democracy and Migration, Geneve, Switzerland; 06/2015
Shifting landscapes of immigrant entrepreneurship
Open for Business, 2010
Immigrant entrepreneurship still comprises smalls stores confined to the lower segment of markets. Nowadays, however, immigrant entrepreneurs are becoming visible also in high-value activities which characterise advanced urban economies. This transformation was partly the result of the increasing level of educational attainment of many immigrants and members of ethnic minorities, but it was also driven by the shifts in the structure from industrial to post-industrial economies, which occurred in the last two decades.
A Bibliometric Review of Immigrant and Ethnic Entrepreneurship
Debate about the immigration of thousands of refugees to Europe and their assimilation by society and the local economy is a popular theme today. Furthermore, international entrepreneurship of ethnic enclaves has been studied as a form of social mobility and integration of these groups. Several immigrant communities of various ethnic groups have been studied, however, the Brazilian immigrant has been little studied in relation to his/her profile, culture, and entrepreneurial behavior. Bibliometric research conducted on immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship points to a change in its original focus on " enclave economies, " " ethnic business, " and " social embeddedness " to studies related to " immigrant entrepreneurs, " " immigrant business networks, " and " transnational entrepreneurs. " This article aims to present the results of a bibliometric study, contemplating seminal works, the main international theories on immigrant entrepreneurship, and ethnic enclaves. Moreover, gaps in Brazilian and international literature are also identified in order to systematically expand this field of research. The authors present an analysis of concepts, theories, and the most cited articles in this study field, as well as pointing to possible future research directions.
An overview of contemporary ethnic entrepreneurship studies: themes and relationships
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 2013
PurposeThe aim of this study is to explore the status of contemporary ethnic entrepreneurship studies in 1999‐2008 in order to map the intellectual structure of ethnic entrepreneurship research and to provide insights for future research in this field.Design/methodology/approachThis study collected citation data from SSCI, resulting in a data set of 403 journal articles and 18,656 cited references. Then using co‐citation analysis, this study identified the core research themes in the ethnic entrepreneurship literature in 1999‐2008.FindingsThe results showed that contemporary ethnic entrepreneurship studies clustered around a few key research themes and their research foci have shifted from research on enclave economies, ethnic enterprises, and social embeddedness to research on immigrant entrepreneurs, immigrant networks, and transnational entrepreneurs.Research limitations/implicationsWith the qualification of citation and co‐citation analysis, this study profiles the changing para...
2021
Migrant entrepreneurship represents a topic of a high societal and academic significance. For a host country, immigrant entrepreneurs’ endeavours are, in many cases, an under-utilized lever for local and regional economic revival. Based on a complex field research carried out between July 2017 and December 2018, the present paper approaches immigrant entrepreneurship in Romania, with a particular focus on Middle Eastern immigrant entrepreneurs. Our multi-method qualitative field research – consisting of semi-structured interviews, observations and informal discussions – envisaged 97 immigrant businesses, targeting the analysis of the phenomenon from different perspectives: economic, social, cultural, political, and institutional. Aiming to draw best practices from the investigated Middle Eastern immigrant entrepreneurs’ experiences, the research results outlined in this paper emphasize both descriptive and practical features. Migration-related particularities, entrepreneurs’ profile...
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on immigrant entrepreneurship since the mid-2000s to examine the changing trends, variations and theoretical advances in immigrant entrepreneurship in Western societies. Design/methodology/approach Using the SocIndex and Proquest Business Premium databases, the authors conducted a literature review of about 100 peer-reviewed articles published since the mid-2000s. The authors critically assess the main research findings, identify key concepts and models that have been developed over the past decade, and offer new theoretical insight into the ever-changing global dynamics of immigrant entrepreneurship. Although the focus is on the USA, the authors also include some seminal research based in other Western countries of immigrant reception. Findings Based on a critical review of existing research that has been published between 2004 and the present, the authors highlight main trends and variations of the entrepreneurial endeavors among diasporic migrants, address the emerging forces shaping immigrant entrepreneurship, highlight theoretical advances in the field of entrepreneurship studies, and suggest new directions for future research. The authors note that the changing trends and ethnonational variations are caused not only by unequal access to human capital, social capital, financial capital, and cross-border venture capital on the part of individual entrepreneurs, but also by differences in broader structural circumstances in the home country and/or host country and interaction between national/local and transnational/global forces. The authors discuss new theoretical advances, identify gaps and raise questions for future research. Originality/value The review offers important insight into the ever-changing local and global dynamics of immigrant entrepreneurship and broadens the established conceptual and theoretical models in the sociology of immigrant/ethnic entrepreneurship. Keywords
Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Other Migrants in the Wake of Globalization
International Review of Sociology, 2003
This article offers a reflection on migration in the era of globalisation, and on its expression in contexts of tourism and self-employment. Ethnic entrepreneurship is increasing in Sweden. The motive forces behind this kind of self-employment are discussed in relation to unemployment and discrimination in the Swedish labour market. Other aspects of entrepreneurship to be discussed are related to the "importation" of Thais as "tourists" to Sweden, where they are exposed to severe exploitation in the informal economy. Different expressions of ethnic entrepreneurship are discussed in the context of the "global city" and its various types of citizen.
Diaspora and Transnational Entrepreneurship: A Case Study
The dynamic development in the field of Diaspora and Transnational entrepreneurship reveals a wide range of challenges and perspectives. These intensely tense up 'conventional wisdom', stretch knowledge frontiers, and simultaneously expose fundamental paradoxes in the characterization of ethnic minorities' diaspora and transnational groups in the context of their entrepreneurship. Prior efforts at researching and advancing knowledge in this sphere have been hugely complicated, not less by the problematic of nomenclature but by researchers' application of terms. Against this background, this chapter aims to expand current understandings on the dialectic, dilemma, and paradoxical signals emitted by the events of diaspora and transnational entrepreneurship's economic activities both theoretically and practically. The significance resides in its capacity to enlarge our understanding of the dynamic process of individual agency in cross-border entrepreneurial relations.