Understanding immigrant entrepreneurship: a home-country entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective

Duan, Carson; Sandhu, Kamaljeet; Kotey, Bernice

doi:10.1108/neje-05-2020-0013

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“…Many have thus resorted to raising capital amongst friends and family. The findings are also consistent with previous work by Duan et al (2021) where immigrant entrepreneurs rely on funding from their ethnic communities, friends and family. And some of the immigrants have devised their financial schemes, for instance, they have created savings clubs known as stokvels that help those who would like to venture into business but with no access to funding.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…In host countries, banks and financing institutions do not support immigrant entrepreneurs requiring capital (Abd Hamid, 2020). In raising funding for their business, immigrant entrepreneurs rely mostly on funding from their ethnic communities, friends and family (Duan et al, 2021). Immigrants also find it challenging to legalise their business due to bureaucratic processes put in place by the government.…”

Section: Challenges Faced By Immigrant Entrepreneursmentioning

confidence: 99%

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African immigrants self-employment journey: navigating contextual challenges in South Africa

Muchineripi

Chinyamurindi²,

Chimucheka³

2022

JGM

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PurposeThe study explores experiences of African immigrants in their self-employment journey. South Africa has been receiving many African immigrants seeking for socio-economic survival. This presents a gap to understand the self-employment journey of such immigrants post-settlement.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative inquiry is used with semi-structured interviews using a sample of African immigrants based in South Africa. Narrative enquiry was utilised in trying to understand the African immigrant self-employment journey.FindingsThe findings show strategies used by African immigrant entrepreneurs in their self-employment journey. These include immigrant relying on established relationships to respond to contextual challenges. Further, immigrant entrepreneurs turned to borrowing from family, including personal savings and using fronts as a capital generation strategy.Originality/valueBased on the findings strategies are suggested as a useful precursor in advancing understanding of the African immigrant self-employment journey. This becomes useful especially considering ideals for assisting post-settlement of migrants.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Challenges Faced By Immigrant Entrepreneursmentioning

confidence: 99%

African immigrants self-employment journey: navigating contextual challenges in South Africa

Muchineripi

Chinyamurindi²,

Chimucheka³

2022

JGM

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“…Fourth, as Shane et al (2003) and Sequeira et al (2007) recommended, it is appropriate to expand the “perceived outcomes” factor to goal-setting and self-efficacy to cover both perceived outcomes and perceived capability. Fifth, following the suggestion from Duan et al (2020, 2021), the dimension IEE implies a more comprehensive picture than “the relevant business environment.” After replacing the original factors with the new dimensions, the updated framework is represented in Figure 3. The figure is consistent with theories of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1985) and the reasoned-action approach (Fishbein and Ajzen, 2010).…”

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Immigrant entrepreneurship motivation – scientific production, field development, thematic antecedents, measurement elements and research agenda

Duan

Sandhu

2021

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Purpose Years of research into immigrant entrepreneurship motivation (IEM) call for a synthesis of the field to note field developments and identify thematic antecedents and measurement elements. The paper aims to fill this literature review gap in IEM field. Improving existing analytical frameworks and establishing a research agenda are also goals of the research. Design/methodology/approach Adopting the PRISMA procedure, a systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted. This produced 53 IEM research papers (internationally, from 1974 to 2020) from a database search and other sources, each of which was reviewed based on extracted variables, findings and suggestions. A well-accepted entrepreneurial motivation model is used for thematic measurement analyzes. Findings IEM research has gained attention over the past 25 years as to the number of publications, research foci and antecedent discoveries. The review suggests that there are six motivational thematic dimensions: individual characteristics, personal experiences and circumstances, personal values, business ideas and opportunities, goal-setting and self-efficacy and immigrant entrepreneurial ecosystem (IEE). The results also reveal a relationship between entrepreneurship motivations and the IEE which is one of the keys recommended future research strands. Research limitations/implications This research contributes to entrepreneurship literature by providing a chronological timeline of IEM field development and antecedent discoveries. The review suggests applying the IEE and its associated components to investigate host and home countries’ interactive effects on IEM. Practical implications The research provides guidance for policymakers and practitioners concerning available policy instruments and IEM determinants in addition to individual factors. Originality/value This study is the first SLR on IEM. It presents a holistic view of the IEM field.

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“…For instance, if a startup company wants to start a business in a particular region, its investors and local partners will develop mutually beneficial relationships. Aside from these, other actors also play critical roles in developing and sustaining an entrepreneurial ecosystem (Duan, Sandhu, & Kotey, 2021).…”

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Crossing the Valley of Death: lessons for young entrepreneurs

Al-Shaikh¹,

Siddiqui²

2021

JESI

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Valley of Death (VoD) is a metaphor often used to describe the situation in which many new startups fail to survive. This paper aims to share the experiences of developing guidelines for young entrepreneurs to successfully cross the Valley of death. The ideal target audience for this paper includes young entrepreneurs eager to launch their startups and preferably attending business incubation or acceleration programs. This research hypothesized to make a conceptual model crossing the Valley of death using the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The entrepreneurship ecosystem consists of six higher-order domains, including enabling government policies and leadership, financial capital, culture, support services, human capital, and markets. From earlier studies, entrepreneurial actions to cross the Valley of death were extracted. Entrepreneurship experts, including business incubation center managers, mentors, entrepreneurship faculty from business schools, validated these entrepreneurial actions. Analyses show four domains replicated in the study, enabling government policies and leadership, financial capital, support services, and markets. Furthermore, culture was partially replicated while the experts did not validate human capital. Finally, it presents entrepreneurial actions used to cross the Valley of death by new startups. These entrepreneurial actions are mapped on the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Findings include an emphasis on the understanding of ten issues including, entrepreneurial ecosystem, government rules, procedures, and incentives (like tax benefits, grants) for similar startups, intellectual property rights for similar projects, the role of leadership in startup performance, financial capital for the startup, risks and decision-making choices, regional entrepreneurial culture, support services for similar startups, markets, customers & competitors, the commercial value of the research project/product. Findings also show how to perform these actions and the appropriate timings of these entrepreneurial actions.

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Understanding immigrant entrepreneurship: a home-country entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective

Cited by 31 publications

References 52 publications

African immigrants self-employment journey: navigating contextual challenges in South Africa

African immigrants self-employment journey: navigating contextual challenges in South Africa

Immigrant entrepreneurship motivation – scientific production, field development, thematic antecedents, measurement elements and research agenda

Crossing the Valley of Death: lessons for young entrepreneurs

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