Thirty Years of Studies on Migrant Entrepreneurship: New Opportunities for Management Scholars

Bolzani, Daniela

doi:10.1108/978-1-83867-491-520211003

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“…While the entrepreneur's home country refers to their country of origin, the host country is where they resettled and started a business venture. They choose to undertake international entrepreneurial tasks, exploring and exploiting opportunities, seeking and accumulating resources and providing products and services that are often innovative (Bolzani, 2020;Dheer, 2018). As of 2020, the United Nations reported 272 million first-generation migrants worldwide, accounting for approximately four percent of the world's population.…”

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Internationalization of transnational entrepreneurial firms from an advanced to emerging economy: the role of transnational mixed-embeddedness

Borah

Kim

et al. 2022

IJEBR

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PurposeThis study investigates the role of transnational mixed-embeddedness when transnational entrepreneurial firms (TEFs) become internationalized. First-generation immigrant entrepreneurs who maintain business arrangements in their home and host countries own TEFs. In many cases, they internationalize from emerging economies to advanced economies. Nevertheless, this study focuses on TEF cases that internationalize from an advanced to an emerging economy, which prior transnational entrepreneurship studies have largely overlooked.Design/methodology/approachThis research uses a qualitative approach based on six TEF case studies from Canada and the UK venturing into China to explore TEFs' internationalization.FindingsThe case studies explore the elements that constitute TEFs' cognitive and relational embeddedness—two main types of embeddedness—in home and host countries and how TEFs exploit such embeddedness for their internationalization. The results suggest that high levels of transnational mixed-embeddedness help TEFs reduce resource and institutional distance barriers in home countries, thereby assisting their internationalization. A framework that visualizes the role of transnational mixed-embeddedness in TEFs' internationalization and novel categorizations of transnational mixed-embeddedness is proposed.Originality/valueAlthough there has been a growing demand for research on the emergence of internationalized smaller firms, there have been few empirical efforts on TEFs' internationalization. It is still unclear how TEFs internationalize differently than homegrown entrepreneurial firms. This study fills this gap in transnational entrepreneurship literature by examining the influence of transnational mixed-embeddedness on TEFs' internationalization.

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