Co-Creation of Social Entrepreneurial Opportunities with Refugees

Harima, Aki; Freudenberg, Julia

doi:10.1080/19420676.2018.1561498

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“…Furthermore, by being exposed to new institutional environments, refugees can reflect problems in their homeland societies from a new perspective, which may drive them to create social businesses to remotely solve homeland problems (Type 5). Recently, a few studies have shed light on refugees as social entrepreneurial agents (Harima and Freudenberg 2020;Lee 2018). This study contributes to this scholarly conversation by elaborating on the relationship between refugees' social entrepreneurial motivations and multiple embeddedness.…”

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Entrepreneurial Opportunities of Refugees in Germany, France, and Ireland: Multiple Embeddedness Framework

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Recently, the entrepreneurial potential of refugees has received growing attention from scholars and policymakers. However, the literature on refugee entrepreneurship suffers from the fragmentation of previous research findings, which has been mainly attributed to the fact that refugees have heterogeneous backgrounds. Tackling this challenge, this study conceptualized the framework for the multiple embeddedness of refugee entrepreneurs by applying and extending the concept of mixed embeddedness. Based on 50 semi-structured interviews with refugee entrepreneurs who relocated to Germany, France, and Ireland, we identified six patterns in which refugees’ multiple embeddedness and their actions as entrepreneurial agencies interacted to develop entrepreneurial opportunities: (i) value creation with homeland resources, (ii) acting as transnational middleman minorities, (iii) integration facilitation, (iv) qualification transfers, (v) homeland-problem solving, and (vi) creative innovation. This study contributes to the literature on refugee entrepreneurship by considering multiple contexts in which refugees can be embedded in and by elaborating on the interactions between opportunity structure emerging within the multiple embeddedness, actions, and capabilities of refugees as entrepreneurial agencies.

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“…Similarly, diaspora entrepreneurship also focusses on the role of the home country but emphasizes the diasporic nature of entrepreneurs with migration backgrounds, such as homeland orientation and boundary-maintenance (Newland & Tanaka, 2010; Nkongolo-Bakenda & Chrysostome, 2013; Riddle & Brinkerhoff, 2011). Recently, scholars have initiated discussions on refugee entrepreneurship to explore forcibly displaced people as special entrepreneurial agents (Bizri, 2017; Harima & Freudenberg, 2019; Heilbrunn, Freiling, & Harima, 2019; Shepherd, Saade, & Wincent, 2019).…”

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Is this Transnational Entrepreneurship? Five Cases in Which It Is Hard to Say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’

Harima

Baron

2020

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economie

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Scholars have lately started using the notion of ‘transnational entrepreneurship’. However, transnational entrepreneurship has not achieved the status of an independent research field in literature yet. Scholars and policymakers do not seem to have managed to address the clear-cut, distinctive nature of transnational entrepreneurship due to its conceptual ambiguity. This challenge calls for thoughtful consideration of the scope and range of the transnational entrepreneurship concept. Consequently, this study aims at critically reviewing the recent literature on transnational entrepreneurship in contrast to migrants’ entrepreneurial activities and international entrepreneurship to identify the current scholars’ underlying assumptions about this phenomenon and challenges them by demonstrating its heterogeneity with the presentation of five empirical cases. In these five cases, entrepreneurs conduct business in which transnationalism plays a certain role, yet differently. We contrast the presented cases with the four assumptions about transnational entrepreneurs identified from literature: (a) frequent travels between home and host countries, (b) simultaneous entrepreneurial engagement in two countries, (c) deep dual embeddedness in home and host institutional environments and (d) highly educated migrants. Based on the discussion, we develop a set of research propositions regarding the characteristics of transnational entrepreneurs, which are not fully considered in literature. By demonstrating the heterogeneity of transnational entrepreneurship and by showing future research orientations, we contribute to the literature on transnational entrepreneurship.

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“…It is useful to view value in this context as being able to assume multiple forms, simultaneously, depending on how it is created and perceived (Heinonen et al, 2013;Lugosi & Ndiuini, 2022;Vargo et al, 2008;Zeithaml et al, 2020). Specifically, a social enterprise or service organisation working with migrants and refugees can continue to realise or extract direct and indirect economic value from these interactions (Harima & Freudenberg, 2020;Harima et al, 2021). For example, providing specialised services can be used to secure state funding, while supporting migrants to show corporate responsibility can also help create brand value for commercial entities.…”

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Inter-Organisational Entanglements in Migrant Support Ecologies: Action and Collaboration Supporting Labour Market Integration

Lugosi

Allis

Croce

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Int. Migration & Integration

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This paper examines inter-organisational behaviours in what we call ‘migrant support ecologies’ – shared physical and abstract spaces where multiple organisations work to help migrants access and transition within the labour market. Drawing on composite data generated through studies conducted in the UK and Brazil, we argue that actors and organisations in such environments operate in ‘common goal domains’, in which objectives are related but not necessarily integrated or coordinated, and they consequently adopt diverse interactional practices. We distinguish between four ideal types of migrant support organisation based on their activity scope and stakeholder focus before outlining how different organisations and their constituent actors engage in tactical and strategic coupling practices, reflecting shorter and more episodic interactions alongside complex, multithreaded ones. The findings show how different forms of cooperative arrangements may be pursued based on organisations’ capacities, focus and the types of value they seek to create for organisations, migrants and wider societies.

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Co-Creation of Social Entrepreneurial Opportunities with Refugees

Cited by 30 publications

References 84 publications

Entrepreneurial Opportunities of Refugees in Germany, France, and Ireland: Multiple Embeddedness Framework

Entrepreneurial Opportunities of Refugees in Germany, France, and Ireland: Multiple Embeddedness Framework

Is this Transnational Entrepreneurship? Five Cases in Which It Is Hard to Say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’

Inter-Organisational Entanglements in Migrant Support Ecologies: Action and Collaboration Supporting Labour Market Integration

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