The micro-foundations of the returnee liability: The interpersonal challenges of returnee entrepreneurs in Kenya

Mreji, Pamela Adhiambo; Barnard, Helena

doi:10.1016/j.intman.2021.100846

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“…Every now and then, those ripples reach beyond the scholarly world. I get LinkedIn contact requests from entrepreneurs and executives who see posts about papers like the one with alumna Pamela that explores how Kenyan returnee entrepreneurs struggle with the many expectations of their large, poor home communities (Mreji and Barnard, 2021) and with Ana on religion as an institution guiding business in Africa (Barnard and Mamabolo, 2022).…”

Section: Making Our Voices Heardmentioning

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Stepping stones across a fast-flowing river: supporting emerging scholars from emerging markets

Barnard

2024

CPOIB

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Purpose International business as a field values perspectives from various contexts, but scholars from emerging markets face a number of often-unseen challenges preventing them from fully contributing to the field. This study aims to explain those challenges and what the author has done to manage them. Design/methodology/approach This is a Reflexive piece in which the author makes sense of her own experience as a scholar not only of but also in an emerging market, as well as the experiences at her school in seeking to develop a high-quality doctoral program. Findings When leading scholars interact, whether in writing or in person, they tend to be in academically and otherwise well-resourced locations. This is true even for the leading international business scholars of emerging markets, and it imposes time and financial costs on scholars located in emerging markets wanting to participate in such conversations. Having experienced such challenges, the author worked with colleagues to design a doctoral program that could nurture rich scholarly conversations at the school. However, there remains a clear and pervasive tension between the inclusive aspirations of the field and the tendency for cutting-edge academic conversations to be concentrated in the developed world. Originality/value The experiences of emerging market scholars remain underrepresented in the field. By drawing on her own experience, both as a scholar and the head of the doctoral program at her school, the author provides suggestions for how to think about and develop a more inclusive scholarly conversation.

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Section: Making Our Voices Heardmentioning

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Stepping stones across a fast-flowing river: supporting emerging scholars from emerging markets

Barnard

2024

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“…In academic circles, research on returning home and entrepreneurship has mainly focused on issues related to overseas returnees investing in or starting enterprises [16,17], including their role [18], influencing factors [19], and new issues and solutions [20]. However, in addition to international mobility, population mobility includes forms of domestic mobility such as return behavior due to urbanization [21].…”

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Serial Mediation Model Linking Returnee Entrepreneurship Education and Green Returnee Entrepreneurial Behavior: An Analysis of Environmental Improvement

Yin,

Wang,

Wang

2023

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With the increasingly negative impact of environmental pollution on human production and life caused by the non-green operation of enterprises, a new generation of returnee entrepreneurs is called upon to take on regional environmental protection and global ecological improvement. This study examined the impact of returnee entrepreneurship education (REE). A conceptual model is constructed based on REE as the core factor of environmental sustainability and uses the occurrence of green entrepreneurial behavior among new university graduates returning to their hometowns as an evaluation basis. Convenience sampling was applied, and the relevant data were collected from 358 new university graduates in Jiangsu Province, China who received REE during their university years. Empirical analysis based on partial least squares structural equation modeling shows that REE evokes a commitment to the environment (CE) and has an indirect significant impact on green returnee entrepreneurial behavior (GREB) through institutional support and intention. However, a CE did not have a significant direct effect. The findings of this study have significant reference value for decision-makers in government departments in developing countries, universities, and many social groups that are actively responding to the United Nations Sustainable Development Initiative.

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“…There are also studies which examine the challenges that returnee entrepreneurs face when returning home for new venture creation. The identified challenges include the liability of newness and foreignness as the result of being away from home and its effects on the speed of returnees' entrepreneurial entry [18], returnee liability resulting from the mismatched interpersonal experiences [19], and the emaciated local networks upon returning [20]. A few qualitative studies have examined the processes through which returnee entrepreneurs use their networks [21], address the institutional differences experienced when returning home [22], and deal with institutional voids using informal networks [1].…”

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Entrepreneurial patterns and network leveraging in returnee entrepreneurship: a qualitative study of returnee entrepreneurs in Vietnam

Anh,

Tien

2023

UD-JST

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Returnee entrepreneurship is one of the significant drivers for economic growth in emerging economies. Although returnee entrepreneurship research has provided a comprehensive picture of who returnee entrepreneurs are, little is known about the motivations behind their decision to return and the decision to engage in entrepreneurship. In addition, while the nature of motivation may affect how entrepreneurs leverage networks during their venture creation, the current returnee entrepreneurship literature has not studied this phenomenon in depth. As such, adopting a qualitative approach, we identified three returnee entrepreneurial patterns and their corresponding network leveraging among 13 cases of returnee entrepreneurs in Vietnam. Our study provides theoretical and practical contributions to the understanding of returnee entrepreneurial paths and network leveraging in returnee entrepreneurship context.

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The micro-foundations of the returnee liability: The interpersonal challenges of returnee entrepreneurs in Kenya

Cited by 12 publications

References 74 publications

Stepping stones across a fast-flowing river: supporting emerging scholars from emerging markets

Stepping stones across a fast-flowing river: supporting emerging scholars from emerging markets

Serial Mediation Model Linking Returnee Entrepreneurship Education and Green Returnee Entrepreneurial Behavior: An Analysis of Environmental Improvement

Entrepreneurial patterns and network leveraging in returnee entrepreneurship: a qualitative study of returnee entrepreneurs in Vietnam

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