Shaking the Minority Box: Conceptualizing the Impact of Context and Social Capital on the Entrepreneurial Activity of Minorities

Dana, Léo‐Paul; Virtanen, Markku; Barner‐Rasmussen, Wilhelm

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91095-6_11

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“…In some cases, this led to misunderstandings with local partners who were reluctant to be proactive. In this case, a lack of identification with the host country made them more opportunity-oriented, contrary to the findings in the previous literature (e.g., Dana, Virtanen, and Barner-Rasmussen 2019;Chrysostome 2010).…”

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Sensemaking by minority entrepreneurs: role identities and linguistic embeddedness

Ivanova-Gongne

Lang

Brännback

et al. 2021

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship

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Language, as a form of contextual embeddedness, often defines how entrepreneurs enact their role identities, as well as restrict, or enable, the scope of their entrepreneurial activities. This study is an analysis of the role of linguistic embeddedness and role identities in the actions of two groups of minority entrepreneurs: immigrants and native minorities. This analysis was done by looking at the sensemaking of entrepreneurial activities, including venture creation and development. In-depth interviews with eight Russian immigrants in Finland and seven Swedish-speaking Finns were analyzed through metaphor analysis. The results show that immigrant entrepreneurs negotiate multiple role identities when realizing entrepreneurial activities and that, because of insufficient linguistic embeddedness in the host country's context, native minority entrepreneurs face less complexity in enacting their role identities than their immigrant counterparts. This study contributes to the literature by focusing on the relatively underexplored interaction between the multiple role identities of an entrepreneur and organizational emergence and development. It also adds to the growing body of research on the role of language in entrepreneurship. RÉSUMÉLa langue, en tant que forme d'int egration contextuelle, d efinit souvent la mani ere dont les entrepreneurs mettent en oeuvre leurs identit es de rôle, et limite ou permet la port ee de leurs activit es entrepreneuriales. Cette etude est une analyse du rôle de l'int egration linguistique et des identit es de rôle dans les actions de deux groupes d'entrepreneurs minoritaires: les immigr es et les minorit es autochtones. Cette analyse a et e r ealis ee au moyen d'un examen de la recherche de sens pour les activit es entrepreneuriales, notamment la cr eation et le d eveloppement d'entreprises. Des entretiens en profondeur avec huit immigr es russes en Finlande et sept Finlandais su edophones ont et e examin es au moyen d'une analyse m etaphorique. Les r esultats montrent que les entrepreneurs immigr es n egocient de multiples identit es de rôle lorsqu'ils m enent des activit es entrepreneuriales, et que, en raison d'une int egration linguistique insuffisante dans le contexte du pays d'accueil, les entrepreneurs issus des minorit es ARTICLE HISTORY

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Sensemaking by minority entrepreneurs: role identities and linguistic embeddedness

Ivanova-Gongne

Lang

Brännback

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Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship

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“…A major concern with much of the literature on social drivers of entrepreneurship at the national level is that it is largely conceptual (see for example: Dana et al , 2019; Lappe et al , 1997; Westlund, 2003; Yee, 2015). Therefore, considering that our understanding of the effects of social capital on entrepreneurship at the macrolevel is still limited due to a lack of empirical cross-country studies, this article is timely in its advancement of the research on the impact of national social capital on entrepreneurial activity in the informal and the formal sectors across different countries.…”

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The impact of national social capital on business creation rates in the formal vs informal sectors

Thai

Turkina

Simba

2020

IJEBR

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PurposeThrough utilizing social capital as an overarching concept, the purpose of this article is to investigate cross-country rates of business formation in the formal vs informal sectors. Plus, empirically assess the impact of social capital constructs on the national rates of entrepreneurship.Design/methodology/approachAdopting a regression-oriented methodology, partial least squares (PLS), the study used a sample comprising 50 nations. National rates of registered and nonregistered business creation were utilized as endogenous variables. To determine the indigenous variables, constructs of social capital were measured which is consistent with the World Value Survey (WWS).FindingsThe results of this study show that in the formal and the informal sectors, social networking enables business creation with varying levels of impact. It establishes that institutional trust has a negative effect on informal business creation and a positive effect on business registration; interpersonal trust drives entrepreneurship in the informal sector but has less impact on business registration; norms of trustworthiness are related to business registration than informal business creation.Practical implicationsThe findings of this research have theoretical and practical implications. They stimulate academic debate on the application of social capital constructs at the national level. The indications that social capital promotes business formation in both the informal and formal sectors can influence entrepreneurship policy development in many countries.Originality/valueThe originality of the results of this study lies in how it conceptualizes social capital as having direct impact on business creation in the informal vs formal sector. Thus, the findings elevated the conceptualization of social capital to the national level thereby enhancing knowledge on the entrepreneurship process as well as developmental economics.

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“…Therefore, social capital importance is a growing trend among recent entrepreneurship research (e.g. Evansluong & Ramírez-Pasillas, 2019;Neumeyer, Santos, Caetano, & Kalbfleisch, 2019;Dana, Virtanen, & Barner-Rasmussen, 2019).…”

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Self-employment of Syrian refugees: unveiling social networks and human capital of food stall owners in Rio de Janeiro

Falcão

Cruz

Piccoli

et al. 2021

RMPE

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Integration of immigrants in their host societies is a key-issue on the refugee crisis throughout the world. Self-employment appears as means of survival representing the so-called necessity-driven entrepreneurship, which is rather common among immigrant survival strategies. Syrians in Brazil are the fourth largest nationality to seek refuge in the country. Therefore, the present paper aims at analyzing how ethnic and local networks of support are configured and influence the creation of new businesses, such as food stalls and restaurants. For that purpose, an exploratory study through in-depth interviews was conducted with Syrians in Rio de Janeiro, generating reflections on the institutional picture as well as the hosting conditions of the country. Key-findings include contingency factors showing evidences that social capital is more a function of brokerage across structural holes than closure within a network articulation, the family network importance as well as the establishment of a local support network. Keywords: immigration, refugee, Syrians, Brazil, self-employment.

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Shaking the Minority Box: Conceptualizing the Impact of Context and Social Capital on the Entrepreneurial Activity of Minorities

Cited by 9 publications

References 68 publications

Sensemaking by minority entrepreneurs: role identities and linguistic embeddedness

Sensemaking by minority entrepreneurs: role identities and linguistic embeddedness

The impact of national social capital on business creation rates in the formal vs informal sectors

Self-employment of Syrian refugees: unveiling social networks and human capital of food stall owners in Rio de Janeiro

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