Breaking-out? A reconceptualisation of the business development process through diversification: the case of Polish new migrant entrepreneurs in Glasgow

Lassalle, Paul; Scott, Jonathan M.

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2017.1391077

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“…Immigrants use breaking strategies as a tool for economic integration by developing ventures that offer products focused on ethnic markets, products transformed for middleman markets and products that conform with public preferences (Ram and Jones, 1998;Lassalle and Scott, 2017). Literature frames such strategies as breaking-in, breaking-out and breaking-through.…”

Section: Immigrants' Breaking Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Breaking strategies are investigated from different perspectives, including ethnic minority businesses (Ram and Hillin, 1994;Ram and Jones, 1998), ethnic strategies (Waldinger, Ward, Aldrich and Stanfield, 1990), market strategies (Basu, 2011), business work strategies (Slavnic, 2012), mixed embeddedness (Lassalle and Scott, 2017) and structuration theory (Griffin-EL and Olabisi, 2018). Griffin-EL and Olabisi (2018) introduce breaking boundaries as processes when entrepreneurs' actions break from socially constructed boundaries.…”

Section: Immigrants' Breaking Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Shifting focus from the creation of a business to the development of the opportunity is necessary for identifying entrepreneurial actions that occur for formulating an entrepreneurial idea as individuals create social inclusion and enter the labour market. This paper specifically relies on literature on breaking-in and breaking-out (Ram and Hillin, 1994;Ram and Jones, 1998;Engelen, 2001;Basu, 2011;Slavnic, 2012;Lassalle and Scott, 2017;Griffin-EL and Olabisi, 2018) to advance our understanding of immigrants' economic and social integration processes. Next, we introduce the creation perspective of an entrepreneurial opportunity since literature signals its potential in uncovering immigrants' integration processes.…”

Section: Immigrants' Breaking Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From breaking-ice to breaking-out: integration as an opportunity creation process

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Bergström

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conduct an inductive case study to understand how the opportunity creation process leads to integration. Design/methodology/approach It examines four cases of immigrant entrepreneurs of Cameroonian, Lebanese, Mexican and Assyrian origins who founded their businesses in Sweden. The study relies on process-oriented theory building and develops an inductive model of integration as an opportunity creation process. Findings The suggested model shows immigrants’ acculturation into the host society via three successive phases: breaking-ice, breaking-in and breaking-out. In the breaking-ice phase, immigrants trigger entrepreneurial ideas to overcome the disadvantages that they face as immigrants in the host country. In the breaking-in phase, immigrants articulate their entrepreneurial ideas by bonding with the ethnic community. In the breaking-out phase, the immigrants reorient their entrepreneurial ideas by desegregating them locally. The paper concludes by elaborating theoretical and practical implications of the research. Originality/value Immigrants act when they are socially excluded and discriminated in the labor market by developing business ideas and becoming entrepreneurs. By practicing the new language and accommodating native customers’ preferences, immigrants reorient their entrepreneurial ideas. The immigrants tailor their ideas to suit their new customers by strengthening their sense of belonging to the local community.

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Section: Immigrants' Breaking Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Immigrants' Breaking Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Immigrants' Breaking Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From breaking-ice to breaking-out: integration as an opportunity creation process

Evansluong

Pasillas

Bergström

2019

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“…Most research on EME has so far focused on single ethnic minority groups of entrepreneurs, whereas depending on the study such ethnic background has been differentiated according to nationality (Home Office 2009; General Register Office for Scotland 2010), country of birth or ethnicity in a broader sense (cf. Census data from the Office of National Statistics 2011; Kelly and Ashe 2014), for example, Pakistani, Chinese or Polish EMEs (Zhou and Logan 1989;Pécoud 2004;Wang and Lo 2007;Vershinina, Barrett, and Meyer 2011;Fong, Chan, and Cao 2013;Lever and Milbourne 2014;Gawlewicz 2016;Lassalle and Scott 2018;Ryan 2018). There are also cases where even broader categories of EMEs, such as 'South Asian' (Ishaq, Hussain, and Whittam 2010), 'Black Ethnic Minority' or 'Black African and Caribbean' (Ojo, Nwankwo, and Gbadamosi 2013) are being used in line with statistical data available in the UK (e.g.…”

Section: Superdiversity Of the Entrepreneurial Populationmentioning

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Approximating entrepreneurial superdiversity: reconceptualizing the superdiversity debate in ethnic minority entrepreneurship

Yamamura

Lassalle

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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One decade after its introduction, the superdiversity concept introduced by Steven Vertovec has widely found echoes in migration research, but also in business studies, particularly those focusing on ethnic minority entrepreneurship (EME). In spite of conceptually embracing superdiversity in EME research, the multidimensionality of superdiversity in its original understanding appears to require further consideration. Dimensions currently overlooked in research at the nexus of superdiversity and ethnic minority entrepreneurship are: (1) ethnic but also religious and linguistic diversity of entrepreneurship, (2) entrepreneurial diversity regarding business-types and (3) incorporation of the characteristics of the city within its analytical unit. Based on an extensive site survey of ethnic businesses in Glasgow combining ethnographic assessment and available statistical data on the city districts, this paper reconceptualizes the entrepreneurial superdiversity to do justice to the on-going debates on superdiversity within migration research. In doing so, it proposes the Entrepreneurial Superdiversity Index (ESI), which is a viable method for approximating entrepreneurial superdiversity in cities. The ESI allows comparative analyses of entrepreneurial superdiversity within a specific city and potentially also between different cities internationally, which could be highly useful for policy-makers and planners alike. It also delivers grounds for developing a general index for superdiversity in further migration research.

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“…A similar perceptual problem is noted by Ojo (2018) in trying to expand the market for African cuisine in Britain. One approach that potentially overcomes this is a diversification process which Lassalle and Scott (2017) identify as being used by some Polish entrepreneurs in Scotland to effectively extend the ethnic enclave by serving their community with non-ethnic goods. This is not to say that there is a 'curse on all ethnic resources' as access to co-ethnic suppliers is positively associated with entrepreneurial orientation and growth (Wang and Altinay, 2012).…”

Section: Challenges Faced By Ethnic Entrepreneurs -Communication Skilmentioning

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Challenges and issues facing ethnic minority small business owners

Rahman

Ullah

Thompson

2018

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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Studies investigating the challenges and barriers faced by ethnic minority entrepreneurs have often concentrated on areas where there is a large supportive ethnic minority community. Less work has been conducted on the experience of those entrepreneurs operating in cities where such ethnic resources may be less widely available. Considered from the perspective of mixed embeddedness framework, this study uses face-to-face interviews with 25 ethnic minority entrepreneurs to gain a greater understanding of the constraints experienced by the starting and running businesses in one such location, the Scottish city of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. Although issues found by previous studies such as access to funding remain an issue, the entrepreneurs indicated problems with access to labour as United Kingdom Border Agency’s immigration rules and tightening of the Post Study Work visa have had a profound effect on these entrepreneurs. The results imply that the weakening of the ethnic resource microsphere has not opened up opportunities which are exploited by the entrepreneurs, but they have still been exposed to external forces from the regulatory macrosphere. Both entrepreneurs and policymakers need to think carefully about the retention, training and recruitment of staff. In particular, the wider ramifications of immigration rule changes need to be considered, but also whether entrepreneurs need to be more open to the potential of recruiting non-ethnic employees and if so what support is required to achieve this.

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Breaking-out? A reconceptualisation of the business development process through diversification: the case of Polish new migrant entrepreneurs in Glasgow

Cited by 30 publications

References 75 publications

From breaking-ice to breaking-out: integration as an opportunity creation process

From breaking-ice to breaking-out: integration as an opportunity creation process

Approximating entrepreneurial superdiversity: reconceptualizing the superdiversity debate in ethnic minority entrepreneurship

Challenges and issues facing ethnic minority small business owners

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