Turkish Businesswomen in the UK and Netherlands: The Effects of National Context on Female Migrant Entrepreneurs

Essers, Caroline; Humbert, Anne Laure

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“…In the UK, Humbert and Essers (2012) conclude that there is a greater usage of business Turkish networks and a greater sense of inclusion within mainstream networks than in the Netherlands. In the study, female Turkish entrepreneurs in the UK mostly do not feel the need to be coached formally, yet some successful female Turkish entrepreneurs seem (p. 397) to coach other minorities to contribute to society.…”

Section: Comparing Female Turkish Entrepreneurs' Experiences In the N...mentioning

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“…A comparative pilot study was conducted in 2010 (see also Humbert and Essers 2012) to get a first impression on how national opportunity structures in the Netherlands as well as in the UK impact upon the female Turkish entrepreneur's possibilities and chances. Entrepreneurial rates among Turkish migrants in Europe are lower than that of the PRINTED FROM OXFORD HANDBOOKS ONLINE (www.oxfordhandbooks.com).…”

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Entrepreneurship and Diversity

Tedmanson

Essers

2016

Oxford Handbooks Online

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This chapter extends on existing critical entrepreneurship contributions to illustrate and analyse how diversity entrepreneurship stemming from diverse contexts can enhance understandings of entrepreneurship as a socially and culturally constructed phenomenon. The chapter first explores the perspectives of Indigenous entrepreneurs in Australia, and second the diverse experience of female Turkish entrepreneurial ‘others’ in both the UK and the Netherlands. Exploring the different roles played by different national contexts in shaping entrepreneurial agency and resistance, rich case study material is used to illustrate how diversity can assist minority entrepreneurs while at the same time also constraining opportunity. The chapter reveals how new takes on entrepreneurship in different locations and settings can reveal not only new forms of entrepreneurial diversity, but also the increasing diversity of how (and what) entrepreneuring can mean.

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Section: Comparing Female Turkish Entrepreneurs' Experiences In the N...mentioning

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Section: Female Migrant Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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Entrepreneurship and Diversity

Tedmanson

Essers

2016

Oxford Handbooks Online

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“…Significantly, the main theories of opportunity structures (the interactionist and the mixed embeddedness theories) underemphasise the interaction of opportunity structures with the social diversity categories of gender, ethnicity and class (Tseng 2004;Jones et al 2014;Carter et al 2015). In the literature, there are only a handful of studies discussing opportunity structures combined with the intersectionality approach (Humbert and Essers 2012;Valdez 2016;Villares-Varela et al 2017;Ozasir-Kacar and Essers 2019). Most studies on opportunity structures tend to neglect gender and ethnicity because of the comparatively smaller number of migrant women enterprises in urban societies (Lewis 2006) or argue that having an ethnicity perspective in studying opportunity structures would not suffice to account for differences between countries (Kloosterman and Rath 2003).…”

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Opportunity Structures from an Intersectional Perspective

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Kacar

2021

The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Entrepreneurship

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Making, unmaking and remaking of context in entrepreneurial identity construction and experiences: a comparative analysis between Türkiye and the Netherlands

Kacar

2023

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This study analyses how women entrepreneurs of Turkish origin do context in constructing their entrepreneurial identities and experiencing their entrepreneurship in two national contexts, namely Türkiye and the Netherlands. In order to study context, we use the term opportunity structures and analyse how these entrepreneurs interpret and perceive opportunity structures, and construct their entrepreneurial identities in relation to their interpretations. Relying on the life story narratives of 21 women entrepreneurs, we analyse social, political and institutional opportunity structures and the relationship between these and the processes of entrepreneurial experiences and identity construction. We propose that Turkish women entrepreneurs make, unmake and remake context during these processes. In the Netherlands, these entrepreneurs challenge existing opportunity structures either by providing alternative images of a Turkish migrant woman or questioning culturalist perspectives behind these opportunity structures. In Türkiye, they are compelled to be more hesitant in challenging the opportunity structures. They either have to step down from their enterprises or downgrade their entrepreneurial affiliations to fulfil the requirements of opportunity structures. This study contributes to the field of entrepreneurship in its contextualisation by providing an extended understanding of the ways in which entrepreneurs do context.

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Turkish Businesswomen in the UK and Netherlands: The Effects of National Context on Female Migrant Entrepreneurs

Cited by 4 publications

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Entrepreneurship and Diversity

Entrepreneurship and Diversity

Opportunity Structures from an Intersectional Perspective

Making, unmaking and remaking of context in entrepreneurial identity construction and experiences: a comparative analysis between Türkiye and the Netherlands

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