Diaspora networks in international business: a review on an emerging stream of research

Elo, Maria

doi:10.4337/9781783475483.00007

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“…Our findings are in line with those of studies showing that social capital-companies' possession of the organizational competences to achieve interdependence with other parties-is directly related to the formation and acquisition of knowledge (Nahapiet and Ghoshal 1998;Tsai and Ghoshal 1998;Lorenzoni and Lipparini 1999;YliRenko et al 2001), and that ethnic identities and networks can serve as sources of advantage for ethnic/diaspora entrepreneurs (Auster and Aldrich 1984;Waldinger et al 1990;Elo 2015). The new insight added by our analysis concerns the question of how access to a diaspora network enables a special class of foreign actors-transnationals-to develop organizational capabilities that would have otherwise remained unrecognized or underdeveloped.…”

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“…The literature on diaspora networks has broadened the focus beyond kinship ties to include a much broader set of business ties based on ethnicity. In a review, Elo (2015) identifies diaspora networks as an under-researched area in international business-in particular with respect to resources and knowledge transfer-and cites Hernandez's 2014 study of MNEs, which points to the literature on immigrant entrepreneurs as sources or brokers of knowledge transferred across borders but notes the lack of research on the mechanisms of such transfer. She also cites Muzychenko's (2008) argument that cross-cultural entrepreneurial competences of the kind possessed by diaspora businessmen assist them in recognizing international business opportunities.…”

Section: Ethnic and Transnational Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Embedding of Transnational Entrepreneurs in Diaspora Networks: Leveraging the Assets of Foreignness

2017

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The Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output. Abstract In this paper we examine how foreign actors capitalize on their ethnic identity to gain skills and capabilities that enable them to operate in a new and strange environment. We explore the mechanisms by which Bulgarian entrepreneurs in London use their ethnic identity to develop competitive advantage and business contacts. We find that the entrepreneurs studied gain access to a diaspora network, which enables them to develop essential business capabilities and integrate knowledge from both home and host country environments. The diaspora community possesses a collective asset (transactive memory) that allows its members to remove competition from the interfirm level to the network level (i.e., diaspora networks vs. networks of native businesspeople). Additionally, the cultural identity and networks to which community members have access provide bridging capabilities that allow diaspora businesspeople to make links to host country business partners and thus embed themselves in the host country environment. Thus, this paper adds to the growing body of work showing how foreignness can serve as an asset in addition to its better-known role as a liability. RESEARCH ARTICLE

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The Embedding of Transnational Entrepreneurs in Diaspora Networks: Leveraging the Assets of Foreignness

2017

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“…Entrepreneurs in the diaspora often have business ties not only with peers in host-country but also with peers in home-country, and thus serve as mediators (Minto-Coy 2016b). The diasporic entrepreneurs' relations with compatriots is a source of information from home-society and relations with local peers is a source of information from host-society, useful for making investments, for trade, and for international business more broadly (Elo 2015). The information from home-society and the 7 information from host-society often differ, so the diasporic entrepreneur can combine two different kinds of information, from two sources that are typically unrelated.…”

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Entrepreneurial pursuits in the Caribbean diaspora: networks and their mixed effects

Schøtt

2018

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…For instance, Chrysostome (2014), Newland andTanaka (2010), andMinto-Coy (2016) analysed their contribution to the socio-economic development of the home country. Elo (2015Elo ( , 2016 studied the impact of diaspora networks on international business in the home country and suggested a typology of diaspora entrepreneurship. Brinkerhoff (2016) scrutinized the positive role of diasporas to promote institutional reforms in the countries of origin.…”

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Business People in War Times, the ‘Fluid Capital’ and the ‘Shy Diaspora’: The Case of Syrians in Turkey

Akçalı

Görmüş

2021

Journal of Refugee Studies

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Due to intensive conflict, a significant amount of Syrian capital flight has funnelled to Turkey since 2011. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted in five major Turkish cities which have hosted the highest number of Syrian business people, this paper first reveals the convergence of the interests of the host state and of the displaced capital owners, as well as the increasing transnationalization of Syrian economic practices. It then assesses the capacity and/or willingness of the Syrian business people to organize themselves as an interest group regarding their interests in Turkey and to assist the process of conflict resolution in Syria. Finally, the paper reflects upon whether a hybrid identity is in the making within the Syrian business diaspora in Turkey. Our findings suggest that the Syrian business diaspora in Turkey is evolving itself into a transnational business community, and developing hybrid socio-economic practices. Yet, we delineate this flourishing community as ‘shy’ because the issues concerning both domestic and Syrian politics are carefully being avoided to keep stability and unity within. This consequently hinders the Syrian business community to form itself as an interest group in Turkey focused on conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction in Syria.

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Diaspora networks in international business: a review on an emerging stream of research

Cited by 21 publications

References 41 publications

The Embedding of Transnational Entrepreneurs in Diaspora Networks: Leveraging the Assets of Foreignness

The Embedding of Transnational Entrepreneurs in Diaspora Networks: Leveraging the Assets of Foreignness

Entrepreneurial pursuits in the Caribbean diaspora: networks and their mixed effects

Business People in War Times, the ‘Fluid Capital’ and the ‘Shy Diaspora’: The Case of Syrians in Turkey

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