Entrepreneurship and Family Business Phenomenon

Centeno-Caffarena, Leonardo

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-0097-1.ch016

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“…The importance of context relates to the conditions that inhibit or support the development of a firm by any business family (Wright et al, 2014). Much of the migrant or immigrant entrepreneurship literature concerns the experience of communities from less developed economies migrating to richer economies in Europe and North America (Centeno-Caffarena, 2016). Yet, ethnicity for business families relates to how people from similar background share information (Larson and Lewis, 2017).…”

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23 Migrant Business Families in Central America

Cruz¹,

Centeno-Caffarena²

2023

De Gruyter Handbook of Business Families

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This study deals with migrant business families. The main argument of this chapter is that migrant business families, as a category, underscores a capacity to adapt to new and changing environments. While some recent studies have suggested the prevalence of migrant business families around the world, we still know little about the challenges they face to create and develop their firms, particularly in underexplored contexts. Using a historical approach, we advance understanding by concentrating on Arab and German migrant business families in two Central American developing countries, Honduras and Nicaragua, respectively. We find that initial and subsequent contextual changes in host countries may support and/or disadvantage some migrant families over others over time. Yet a reliance on ethnic and transnational networks may allow migrant business families to adapt and thrive. In contrast to prior work, migrant business family members in developing economies contextually adapt through a cultivating an ethnic family culture, enhancing ethnic networks and strengthening transnational business links. Our chapter argues that the ability of business families to adapt and prosper in a wide range of environments explains their prevalence around the world.

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confidence: 99%