Volume 8(2) • 2015
The Role of Local Partners for Descending Diaspora Entrepreneurship: Overcoming Liability of Foreignness
ABSTRACT. Diaspora entrepreneurs who conduct business in their country of residence face numerous challenges as outsiders in the target market in the early phase of their migration. These difficulties are caused mainly by information asymmetries and institutional differences between their country of..
Transnational Entrepreneurship: An Introduction to the Volume
ABSTRACT. Transnational trade and business activities have rapidly increased. Countries and markets interconnect in many ways, partially as a result of global migration flows. Globalization, and in particular advanced communication through Internet and digitalization, cheaper flights and free trade ..
Transnational vs. Domestic Immigrant Entrepreneurs: A Comparative Literature Analysis of the Use of Personal Skills and Social Networks
ABSTRACT. An increasing number of studies are analyzing the roles of personal skills and social contacts in transnational immigrant entrepreneurship. However, whether the findings from extant research on immigrant entrepreneurs with a transnational business (TIEs) are peculiar to this particular gro..
Transnational Entrepreneurship among Bukharian Jewish Diaspora in Israel
ABSTRACT. The entrepreneurship of migrant populations is often of a transnational nature. Transnational entrepreneurs leverage opportunities arising from their sociocultural embeddedness and optimize resources where they consider these fruitful. As an emerging theoretical domain, transnational entre..
The Foreign Entrepreneur: An Exploratory Study of How Assets and Liabilities of Foreignness Affect the Foreign Entrepreneurial Venture
ABSTRACT. Originating in International Business literature, this paper focuses on how the background of foreign entrepreneurs affect an entrepreneurial venture launched in a non-native host country. IB research has long been focused on challenges faced by MNEs when internationalizing (the liability ..
Expatriate Entrepreneurship in the Gulf Region between Informality and a Globalized Knowledge Society
ABSTRACT. With some of the largest migrant populations worldwide as a percentage of the total population, the resource-rich states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have an extended historical record of migrant entrepreneurship, the emergence of which predates that of the modern state. While the..
Women’s Economic Empowerment, Obstacles for Success: Experiences from Southern Ethiopia
ABSTRACT. Poverty and urbanization are highly gendered, with women constituting the poorest of the poor in most developing countries. Women’s participation in economic, social, political, and cultural agendas remains a challenge. In Ethiopia, gender inequality and dis-empowerment have been rampant i..
Book Review
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the FuturePeter Thiel with Blake MastersNew York: Crown BusinessISBN: 978-0-8041-3929-8, 224 pp., 2014 By Jeremy Horpedahljeremy.horpedahl@gmail.comUniversity of Central Arkansaspp. 127–129 {downloads}{slider Author's contact} Jeremy Horpedahljeremy..