Results 21 to 30 of about 682 (191)
The impact of immigrant entrepreneurs’ social capital related motivations [PDF]
New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, 2015 The immigrant entrepreneurship literature indicates that immigrant entrepreneurs reap numerous benefits from their co-ethnic communities’ social capital.
Claudia Gomez +4 more
doaj +1 more source
Immigrant entrepreneurs' access to information as a local economic development problem
PlaNext, 2016 Sociologists and geographers have examined immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States to discuss what types of industries immigrants enter, why some groups are more inclined to entrepreneurship than others, and how social networks influence ...
Jessica Doyle
doaj +3 more sources
International immigration and entrepreneurship in rural areas of the Spanish Pyrenees
Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2023 The academic literature on international immigration into rural areas has clearly identified two main international migration flows: retirement migration and low-skilled migration in farming.
Cristóbal Mendoza
doaj +1 more source
Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Economic Adaptation: A Critical Analysis
Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2017 Objective: The main goal of the article is to discuss the theoretical relationship between immigrant entrepreneurship and immigrant’s economic adaptation. Research Design & Methods: The paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on immigrant
Jan Brzozowski
doaj +1 more source
Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2016 Objective: This research seeks new ways in which the socio-cultural capital and human capital of immigrants can be used as a resource in business life in Lapland - a sparsely populated area and new immigrant-receiving region. Immigrants are a vulnerable
Nafisa Yeasmin
doaj +1 more source
Immigrants’ Entrepreneurship: Analytical Overview of Foreign Approaches
Социологический журнал, 2022 Entrepreneurial activity of immigrants is a fairly new phenomenon for Russian reality which explains both the paucity of empirical works and the practically absence of a holistic view of theoretical and methodological foundations for such studies in ...
Vera M. Peshkova
doaj +1 more source
On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. Immigrants whose human capital is not immediately transferable to the host country face lower opportunity costs of investing in new skills or methods and will be more exible in their human capital investments than ...
Duleep, Harriet +2 more
openaire +4 more sources
Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2015 Objective: The purpose of this article is to address rural and gender gaps in the immigrant entrepreneurship literature by analysing the start-up narratives of nine male entrepreneurs in Finnmark in northernmost Norway.
Mai Camilla Munkejord
doaj +1 more source
Editorial: Immigrant and Ethnic Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2015 The importance of businesses started and developed by immigrants is host countries is substantial. Just in the US, 90 of the enterprises listed on Fortune 500 have been founded by immigrants, and additional 114 have been started by the second-generation
Jan Brzozowski
doaj +1 more source
Socio and ethno-cultural embeddedness of transnational Nigerian immigrant entrepreneurs in Ghana
Comparative Migration Studies, 2021 Transnational Nigerian immigrant entrepreneurs have been in Ghana for a long time, operating by utilizing a wide range of resources available to them. Key among these resources are their own socio and ethno-cultural norms which have yet to be explored in
Thomas Antwi Bosiakoh +1 more
doaj +1 more source