Understanding the Role of Refugees' Entrepreneurship Motives and Challenges in Integration: Evidence From the Food Industry

Abstract

Understanding the role of refugees' entrepreneurship motives and challenges in integration: Evidence from the food industry.

Identifying success factors of refugee entrepreneurs in the tourism and hospitality industry

“…While previous entrepreneurship success literature points out such personal traits as flexibility, satisfaction, growth and personal fulfillment (Walker and Brown, 2004), the current work demonstrates how motivation, personal background, integration and demographic characteristics of refugee entrepreneurs impact their business success. The present work also extends our understanding of how motivation shapes refugee entrepreneurs' success (Alrawadieh et al, 2021;Cifci and Atsiz, 2021;Cetin et al, 2022;Shneikat and Alrawadieh, 2019). It showed that integration is not only an outcome but an antecedent that triggers the success of refugee entrepreneurship.…”

“…IJCHM 36,4 Moreover, the work also contributes to the recent entrepreneurship strand by sampling a population with homogeneous characteristics (i.e. refugee entrepreneurs), which is overlooked in general entrepreneurship literature (Cuadros et al, 2023) and particularly in the T&H entrepreneurship field (Alrawadieh et al, 2019;Cifci and Atsiz, 2021;Fu et al, 2019). Additionally, it responds to a pending call from Cifci and Atsiz (2021) and Cetin et al (2022) for further investigations into refugee entrepreneurs' success in the T&H industry.…”

“…organizational characteristics, type of business, customers, establishment year and number of employees) were also requested. After a sweeping review of the theoretical literature on entrepreneurial success, an effective interview procedure was established (Fisher et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2019;Weber and Geneste, 2014;Yodchai et al, 2021), as well as refugee Tourism and hospitality industry entrepreneurship in the T&H literature (Alrawadieh et al, 2019;Alrawadieh et al, 2021;Bizri, 2017;Cetin et al, 2022;Cifci and Atsiz, 2021). For example, the participants were asked about their businesses' organizational profile; their investment and entrepreneurship processes; the factors (e.g.…”

“…When asked about the roles and performances of local government, central government, international organizations and NGOs, participants specifically mentioned that if the host country had effective policies regarding supporting refugee entrepreneurs, they could become more successful in the host economy. Corroborating with this, P1 mentioned: Controversially, compared to other immigrant groups, refugees are more affected by the legislative, political and social context of hosting countries (Cifci and Atsiz, 2021) because they cannot make their own decisions independently (Bird and Wennberg, 2016). Therefore, participants asked what would be different if they were granted Turkish citizenship.…”

Refugee Entrepreneurship

“…Allowing refugees to participate and contribute socio-economically, rather than be dependent on government or UNHCR support, is an avenue to advance a more positive image of refugees thus boosting their integration and social-inclusion among host communities. Overall, integration also acts as an avenue to reduce the financial burden of hosting refugees to a host country (Atsız, 2021).…”