`Breaking in' and `breaking out': a Weberian approach to entrepreneurial opportunities

Engelen, Ewald

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“…In the last few decades, several authors have provided evidence about the increasing variety of immigrant enterprises and their evolution towards boundary-crossing activities outside of enclave economies (e.g. Waldinger, Aldrich, and Ward 1990;Ram and Hillin 1994;Engelen 2001). However, few contributions have focused on how the adoption of break-out strategies is made possible by more complex business organizational models adopted within these firms.…”

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Beyond the enclave? Break-outs into mainstream markets and multicultural hybridism in ethnic firms

Arrighetti

Bolzani

Lasagni

2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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The literature on immigrant entrepreneurship has richly described the characteristics and peculiarities of ethnic businesses catering to enclave markets. However, several indications suggest that immigrant-owned firms are increasingly entering mainstream markets and changing both their internal structures and their external networks with resource providers. One of the most substantial changes, which has been overlooked by researchers, consists of the appearance of what we define as 'multiculturally hybrid firms', which are firms that rely on inter-ethnic managerial or labour resources to carry out their activities. Therefore, in this paper we provide an understanding of the variables that affect the recourse to solutions of multicultural hybridism in the entrepreneurial teams and personnel of immigrantowned firms. We conduct our empirical analyses on data collected through interviews on a sample of 130 immigrant entrepreneurs in Italy. Our results show that multicultural hybridism is mainly driven by the size of the founding team, the business's maturity, the entrepreneurs' host-country language competence and by entrepreneurs' motivation by individual goals rather than community goals. This research advances our knowledge about immigrant entrepreneurship by focusing on firm-level dimensions such as the diversity of entrepreneurial teams and employees, which are increasingly relevant in our multicultural societies.

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confidence: 96%

Beyond the enclave? Break-outs into mainstream markets and multicultural hybridism in ethnic firms

Arrighetti

Bolzani

Lasagni

2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…However, studies of ethnic business overlook the importance of innovation . Engelen (2001) suggests that this is probably due to the marginal character of most ethnic and migrant businesses. In our view, Engelen has overstated the importance of innovation.…”

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“…Engelen (2001) highlighted the significance of innovation in ethnic and migrant entrepreneurship. Migrant entrepreneurs employ different innovative strategies to access a wider clientele and penetrate new and lucrative markets in Japan and beyond.…”

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“…Spatial strategies involve attempts to "relocate firms to more rewarding markets" (Engelen 2001), and these can be applied to restaurant businesses in the case of internal markets and used car, calling cards, tire, car parts, Japanese silk, and herbal products in the case of international markets. Bangladeshi-owned Indian restaurants are located in convenient locations, especially next to the subway stations of business districts.…”

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“…Migrant entrepreneurs are driven to adopt various innovative practices in their businesses. Innovation is the attempt to make one's business as dissimilar as possible from one's competitors (Engelen 2001). Different groups of migrant entrepreneurs employ different innovative strategies to access a wider market, both nationally and internationally.…”

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One of the visible but often neglected outcomes of international migration in Asia is the emergence of immigrant-run businesses. Drawing on the experiences of Bangladeshi migrant entrepreneurs in Japan, this study examines how migrants reposition themselves from the rank of irregular workers to that of entrepreneurs under conditions of temporary migration. It highlights both the opportunity structure and the ingenuity of migrants in entrepreneurship. Unlike traditional migrant businesses, Bangladeshi migrant entrepreneurs engage in transactions in ethnic and non-ethnic products and are driven to adopt innovative strategies to make use of available technology in communication and transport and the globalization of markets. In doing so, they maintain multiple orientations in cultivating both the ethnic and local markets and developing a transnational and/or multinational dimension in growing their businesses.

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`Breaking in' and `breaking out': a Weberian approach to entrepreneurial opportunities

Cited by 52 publications

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Beyond the enclave? Break-outs into mainstream markets and multicultural hybridism in ethnic firms

Beyond the enclave? Break-outs into mainstream markets and multicultural hybridism in ethnic firms

The Development of Migrant Entrepreneurship in Japan: Case of Bangladeshis

Migrant entrepreneurship and markets: The dynamic role of embeddedness in networks in the creation of opportunities

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