International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 25 Issue 5

Migration, enterprise and society

Natalia Vershinina, Peter Rodgers

Global dynamics of immigrant entrepreneurship: Changing trends, ethnonational variations, and reconceptualizations

Jennifer Nazareno, Min Zhou, Tianlong You

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…

Understanding the emergence of a social enterprise by highly skilled migrants: The case of Honduras Global Europa

Allan Discua Cruz, Ingrid Fromm

The purpose of this paper is to examine the emergence of a social enterprise by highly skilled members of a diaspora. While most literature has focused on government intervention…

Understanding internationalisation approaches and mechanisms of diaspora entrepreneurs in emerging economies as a learning process

Ignatius Ekanem

The purpose of this paper is to present an exploration into the internationalisation approaches and mechanisms of diaspora entrepreneurs in emerging economies. It seeks to…

Objective institutionalized barriers and subjective performance factors of new migrant entrepreneurs

Sirak Hagos, Michal Izak, Jonathan M. Scott

The purpose of this paper is to explain how the “objective” institutionalized barriers (of which social, human and financial capital are decisive factors) and the subjective…

Entrepreneurial response to changing opportunity structures: Self-selection and incomes among new immigrant entrepreneurs in Sweden

Aliaksei Kazlou, Martin Klinthall

The purpose of this paper is to analyse how the introduction of a liberalised regime for labour immigration in Sweden affected the self-selection of new immigrant entrepreneurs…

From breaking-ice to breaking-out: integration as an opportunity creation process

Quang Evansluong, Marcela Ramirez Pasillas, Huong Nguyen Bergström

The purpose of this paper is to conduct an inductive case study to understand how the opportunity creation process leads to integration.

Manifestations of social class and agency in cultural capital development processes: An empirical study of Turkish migrant women entrepreneurs in Sweden

Huriye Yeröz

While migrant women entrepreneurs (MWE) have been studied extensively through the lenses of gender and ethnicity, social class, as an axis of difference, received scant attention…

Conforming to the host country versus being distinct to our home countries: Ethnic migrant entrepreneurs’ identity work in cross-cultural settings

Hamizah Abd Hamid, Conor O’Kane, André M. Everett

The purpose of this paper is to examine how ethnic migrant entrepreneurs (EMEs) utilise identity work to build legitimacy in a host country. According to optimal distinctiveness…

Building entrepreneurial potential abroad – exploring return migrant experience

Urban Pauli, Renata Osowska

The purpose of this paper is to examine how entrepreneurial potential is built abroad during the periods of EU economic migration and how this affects the entrepreneurial…

Contextualising ethnic minority entrepreneurship beyond the west: Insights from Belize and Cambodia

Michiel Verver, David Passenier, Carel Roessingh

Literature on immigrant and ethnic minority entrepreneurship almost exclusively focusses on the west, while neglecting other world regions. This neglect is problematic not only…

Making sense of mixed-embeddedness in migrant informal enterprising: The role of community and capital

Angelo P. Bisignano, Imad El-Anis

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how informal migrant entrepreneurs with different legal statuses interpret their mixed-embeddedness in social and economic contexts. Legal…

Varieties of context and informal entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial activities of migrant youths in rural Ghana

Benjamin Afreh, Peter Rodgers, Natalia Vershinina, Colin C. Williams

The purpose of this paper is to examine the multi-faceted contexts, which influence the motives, decisions and actions that underpin the mundane and lively entrepreneurial…

Transnational migrant entrepreneur characteristics and the transnational business nexus: The Colombian case

Sandra Milena Santamaria-Alvarez, Maria Angélica Sarmiento-González, Luis Carlos Arango-Vieira

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of Colombian migrants’ transnational businesses (TBs) and their operations. To this end, the characteristics of the…

Against all odds: refugees bricoleuring in the void

Sibylle Heilbrunn

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…

Understanding refugee entrepreneurship incubation – an embeddedness perspective

Alexander Dominik Meister, René Mauer

Recent years have seen a wave of immigration in western countries. Entrepreneurship can foster refugees’ integration in the labour market. Hence, the authors observe an emergence…

The co-creation of social ventures through bricolage, for the displaced, by the displaced

Cherry W.M. Cheung, Caleb Kwong, Humera Manzoor, Mehboob Ur Rashid, Charan Bhattarai, Young-Ah Kim

Although scholars have investigated how social entrepreneurs create and develop social enterprises in the penurious stable environment, how they are created in the penurious…

Exploring the entrepreneurial intentions of Syrian refugees in the UK

Suzanne Mawson, Laila Kasem

Few studies have sought to explore the issue of entrepreneurial intention (EI) within refugees, despite wide recognition of refugee entrepreneurial potential. The purpose of this…

An investigation of migrant entrepreneurs: the case of Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Laurice Alexandre, Charbel Salloum, Adel Alalam

The purpose of this paper is to answer the following question: what motivates refugees to create their own businesses in a developing country, and how do they go about it?