Ethnic minority entrepreneurs in the international carpet trade: an empirical study

Light, Ivan; Rezaei, Shahamak; Dana, Léo‐Paul

doi:10.1504/ijesb.2013.052055

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“…This approach may contribute to the scholarly conversation on entrepreneur's mental health and well-being (Stephan, 2018) and occupational and organisational health in entrepreneurial settings (Stephan & Roesler, 2010). Furthermore, the vibrant research stream on transnational entrepreneurship may offer important insights suited to investigate cultural complexity and resilience in the pursuit of this scholarly inquiry (Light, Rezaei, & Dana, 2013;Rezaei, Light, & Telles, 2016).…”

Section: Limitations and Future Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualising Risk and Building Resilience: Returnees Versus Local Entrepreneurs in China

Liu

2019

Applied Psychology

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Risk is a pivotal concept in entrepreneurship research, as entrepreneurs constantly face uncertainty, ambiguity, setbacks, and stressful situations. Attitudes toward risk vary contingent upon individual risk preferences and cultural influences. Building resilience is critical for entrepreneurs to overcome obstacles, deal with risk, and grow their ventures. By juxtaposing effectuation theory and resilience literature, we compare the perceptions of risk held by Chinese returnees and local entrepreneurs and their coping strategies in building resilience. Our research reveals two types of coping approaches, namely effectual coping and causal coping. This study contributes to the comparative international entrepreneurship literature by contextualising the notion of risk held by entrepreneurs influenced by Eastern and Western cultures. Our study further contributes to the nascent literature on resilience in organisations by specifying the entrepreneurial occupational context and exploring the influence of cultures on resilience, and by identifying distinctive resilience‐building coping strategies based upon cultural influences and interpretations of risk. Furthermore, we suggest that resilience can constitute one micro‐foundation of effectuation theory in the context of entrepreneurship dealing with risk.

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Section: Limitations and Future Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualising Risk and Building Resilience: Returnees Versus Local Entrepreneurs in China

Liu

2019

Applied Psychology

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“…First, in showing how differences in the nature of prior experience of TEs translate into differences in social ties in the founding of their ventures, our findings extend the migrant entrepreneur literature on the role of social ties in venture creation. Previous research has tended to focus on the role of strong family and ethnic, that is personal, ties for entrepreneurs that make a one-way move from the home country and create ventures within the host country (Cucculelli and Morettini, 2012;Light et al, 2013). Our findings show that industry ties may also be important for entrepreneurs embedded in dual country contexts, and that the relative importance of personal and industry ties is contingent upon the nature of their prior work experience.…”

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confidence: 61%

“…First, we extend the migrant entrepreneurship literature on the role of social ties in new venture creation. An established stream of literature (e.g., Light et al, 2013) explores the role of personal or ethnic ties in venture founding by EEs, mainly in their new country of residence. Where entrepreneurs' connections in both host and home countries are explored, they are mainly in the context of internationalising EEs that extend their firms to the home country (Chung and Tung, 2013) or REs that draw on their connections abroad to found new ventures upon returning home (Pruthi, 2014;Wadhwa et al, 2011).…”

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Social ties, prior experience, and venture creation by transnational entrepreneurs

Pruthi¹,

Wright²

2019

IJESB

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The interaction between resources, and host and home country contexts of transnational entrepreneurs (TEs), is important for understanding their strategies and hence performance of their ventures. Yet, how they deploy their unique experiences and social networks in the founding of ventures in multiple institutional contexts is less understood. Based on 15 in-depth interviews with TEs of Indian origin in the UK, and nine of their counterpart heads of transnational venture (TNV) operations, we explore the use of prior experience, and personal and industry ties in the founding of TNVs in their home country. Our findings show that the way TEs use personal and industry ties in the host and home countries is contingent on whether they have prior experience of: 1) entering the home country; 2) implementing the business opportunity underlying the TNV in the home country, respectively, with a former employer. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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“…In fact, [social] start-ups are rapidly changing the ecosystems (Light et al, 2013). As these entities grow, their effects would be more evident in societies.…”

Section: The Emergence Of [Social] Start-ups In Iranmentioning

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Creation of ICT-Based Social Start-Ups in Iran: A Multiple Case Study

Salamzadeh

Arasti

Elyasi

2017

J. Enterprising Culture

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Despite the importance of social startups, their evolution is rarely investigated. Thus, in this manuscript, the emergence of ICT-based social start-ups is studied using a multiple case study research method. To do so, five social start-ups are selected using a combination of purposive and convenience sampling and studied in detail, based on Lanteri's (2015) model regarding creation of social enterprises. Eight cofounders are interviewed and data triangulation is employed by collecting data from both primary and secondary sources. Also, replication logic is considered to be able to generalize the findings. Moreover, in order to better understand the phenomenon, the history of social entrepreneurship and its evolutionary trend in Iran is elaborated. The findings show that the evolutionary trend of social entrepreneurship in Iran could be classified into three stages, i.e. ancient Persia, entrance of Islam, and emergence of entrepreneurship as a field. Finally, the findings are categorized in four categories: (i) process, (ii) social entrepreneur/founder, (iii) activities, and (iv) organization.

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Ethnic minority entrepreneurs in the international carpet trade: an empirical study

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

Contextualising Risk and Building Resilience: Returnees Versus Local Entrepreneurs in China

Contextualising Risk and Building Resilience: Returnees Versus Local Entrepreneurs in China

Social ties, prior experience, and venture creation by transnational entrepreneurs

Creation of ICT-Based Social Start-Ups in Iran: A Multiple Case Study

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