Cultural background, human capital and self-employment rates among immigrants in Norway

The Importance of Cross-Cultural Capabilities for Chinese Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Australia

“…Some immigrant groups are capable of attaining cultural resources that can assist their entrepreneurial pursuits (Drori et al, 2009). Although previous research has found that some immigrants from various national cultures are more endowed with human capital than other immigrant groups (Vinogradov & Kolvereid, 2007), or non-immigrant groups, which improves their capability to become self-employed, it appears that there is limited research investigating how immigrant entrepreneurs' cross-cultural capabilities affect their business outcomes. As such, sub-research question two (RQ2) was developed:…”

“…Research about immigrant entrepreneurs has focused on the impact of national culture (Aliaga-Isla & Rialp, 2013). The Hofstede cultural dimension has been used to study why some immigrants from certain cultures are likely to become selfemployed (Vinogradov & Kolvereid, 2007). For example, Chand and Ghorbani (2011) adopted individualism and collectivism dimensions to propose that Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs are more likely than Indian immigrant entrepreneurs to run businesses that employ people from outside their family.…”

“…In addition, national intelligence is determined to be considerably connected with self-employment rates among first generation immigrants (Vinogradov & Kolvereid, 2010). However, there is a scarcity of research focussing on leveraging cultural resources, and some researchers have called for investigations at a more individual level into the relationship between national culture, human capital, and immigrant entrepreneurship (Vinogradov & Kolvereid, 2007).…”

“…Cultural theory has also been taken into account for immigrant entrepreneurs' original culture background, such as using Hofstede national cultural dimensions (e.g., Vinogradov & Kolvereid, 2007). Relevant research reveals that entrepreneurship is culturally ascribed to certain immigrant groups that bring their unique cultural characteristics to assist in succeeding in business (e.g., Teixeira, Lo, & Truelove, 2007).…”

“…Chapter 2: Literature Review capital perspective has been used to analyse the particular characteristics of immigrants that have been learned in home and host countries (e.g., Fernandez & Kim, 1998;Vinogradov & Kolvereid, 2007). Moreover, the combination of human and social capital theories are merging to acknowledge the effect on the extent of business growth (Kanas et al, 2009;Sequeira & Rasheed, 2006).…”