Coming out of conflict: How migrant entrepreneurs utilise human and social capital

Williams, Nick; Krasniqi, Besnik A.

doi:10.1007/s10843-017-0221-4

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“…Furthermore, entrepreneurs that exit the business tend to be younger, more educated and lack entrepreneurial experience compared to entrepreneurs in the start-up or registration phase. Educational qualifications from the country of origin do not necessarily have influence on entrepreneurial process [83] if it is not supported by other complementary personal characteristic or business training in the host country.…”

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“…Those entrepreneurs with a low education level and low language skills could not survive in the host county although they have previous entrepreneurial experience with agri-food industry, while those entrepreneurs who have a high/middle education level with middle language skills could survive with or without previous entrepreneurial experience [66], which indicates that previous experience in agriculture and/or entrepreneurship are compensatory. Being familiar with the host country language is important to build business relationships [83].…”

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Sweden: The Liability of Newness

Barth

Zalkat

2020

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Immigrant entrepreneurs face many challenges in the various early phases of their companies’ existence. These challenges are often referred to as “the liability of newness”. While some of these challenges are common to all entrepreneurs, the immigrant entrepreneur has an additional set of challenges. This article describes those challenges in the immigrant entrepreneurial experience in the Swedish agri-food industry. A qualitative research design is used. Interviews were conducted with 25 immigrant entrepreneurs who planned a business, had started a business, or had exited a business. Various websites and tax reports provided secondary data. The research, which covered a two-year time frame, identifies the strategies and actions the immigrant entrepreneurs adopted and used to try to overcome those challenges. The following strategies and actions were identified: use of business support, virtual embeddedness, family and ethnic groups, entrepreneurial experience, and niche markets. The companies in which the entrepreneurs recognized the gravity of those challenges early in their life cycle were more likely to survive beyond the start-up phase. The article, which also reviews much of the current literature on immigrant entrepreneurship, has implications for business support advisory services and policymakers who are involved in the effort to achieve economic (and social-cultural) integration of immigrants into their host countries.

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Sweden: The Liability of Newness

Barth

Zalkat

2020

Sustainability

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“…As for training and work experiences predictors, human capital and its investment (i.e., education and training experiences) have always occupied a central role in the literature (Bertson et al, 2006;Wittekind et al, 2010). Based on Becker's studies (1993), Williams and Krasniqi (2018) outlined human capital as the individuals' skills and knowledge fuelled by education and training. Early literature argued that workers with a higher educational level have higher occupational chances (Mincer, 1991).…”

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The route to employability: a longitudinal study on a sample of Italian job seekers

Presti

Rosa

Zaharie

2021

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

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This study aimed to examine the main predictors of employability, building on a recent conceptual model on employability developed by Lo Presti and Pluviano (Organ Psychol Rev 6(2): 192–211, 2016). Survey based data were collected from a sample of 263 Italian job-seekers through a longitudinal study. The results revealed that employability was more strongly determined by personal dispositions than by external factors, such as life circumstances and that the variables with the most impact were proactive personality, core self-evaluations, and educational level, rather than employability culture, family employability support, and previous work experience. The paper reveals an understanding of the relative importance of antecedents that determine employability.

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“…For example, a study indicated that the value of remittances and investments from Swiss-based Kosovars, as well as their spending on family visits back home, probably exceeds the value of Swiss foreign aid for Kosovo [61]. Moreover, their contribution to the build-up of a local economic ecosystem in Kosovo through know-how transfer, investment and valuable business networks is likely to contribute more to the reduction of poverty and social inequality in the long run than all the publicly funded European aid programs in the region [62].…”

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Decentralized Economic Complexity in Switzerland and Its Contribution to Inclusive and Sustainable Change

Aerni

2021

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The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim at harnessing economic complexity for sustainable and inclusive economic growth by calling for a decade of joint action. In this paper, we show how the action-oriented collaborative culture of complex and competitive economic ecosystems in places outside the major population centers may generate significant positive external effects for society and the environment at large. We illustrate this by means of two small case studies in Switzerland, a country with a federal system that enables decentralized economic development. The first case study investigates the economic ecosystem of the small town Monthey to show how productive migrants and embedded multinational companies increase the knowledge and know-how of local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The successful collaboration of insiders and outsiders accounts for the internal economic complexity that makes the region innovative and competitive. The second case study highlights the importance of the federalist system by showing how the canton of Solothurn succeeded in nurturing globally competitive export-oriented SMEs. We conclude that the success of these inclusive economic ecosystems in unexpected places may only be understood in the specific geographical, historical and political context, as well as the general openness of these regions toward entrepreneurial migrants and global business. The importance of local social capital makes it hard to replicate such success stories. Nevertheless, they indicate that the global knowledge economy may not just pose a threat, but also offer great opportunities for productive regions beyond the major global high-tech clusters of economic complexity.

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Coming out of conflict: How migrant entrepreneurs utilise human and social capital

Cited by 49 publications

References 86 publications

Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Sweden: The Liability of Newness

Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Sweden: The Liability of Newness

The route to employability: a longitudinal study on a sample of Italian job seekers

Decentralized Economic Complexity in Switzerland and Its Contribution to Inclusive and Sustainable Change

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