Relational Dynamics within Refugee Business Incubators: Bridging Refugee Entrepreneurs to the Host-Country Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

2022 ◽  
pp. 147-169
Author(s):  
Caroline Jürgens ◽  
Anorth Ramalingam ◽  
Roch Zarembski ◽  
Aki Harima ◽  
Tenzin Yeshi
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ◽  
Relational Dynamics

scholarly journals The Effects of Cross-Border E-Commerce Platforms on Transnational Digital Entrepreneurship

2022 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Carson Duan ◽  
Bernice Kotey ◽  
Kamaljeet Sandhu
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Digital Ecosystem ◽  
Immigrant Entrepreneurs ◽  
Digital Entrepreneurship

This research examines the important concept of transnational digital entrepreneurship (TDE). The paper integrates the host and home country entrepreneurial ecosystems with the digital ecosystem to the framework of the transnational digital entrepreneurial ecosystem. The authors argue that cross-border e-commerce platforms provide critical foundations in the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem. Entrepreneurs who count on this ecosystem are defined as transnational digital entrepreneurs. Interview data were dissected for the purpose of case studies to make understanding from twelve Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs living in Australia and New Zealand. The results of the data analysis reveal that cross-border entrepreneurs are in actual fact relying on the significant framework of the transnational digital ecosystem. Cross-border e-commerce platforms not only play a bridging role between home and host country ecosystems but provide entrepreneurial capitals as digital ecosystem promised.

Functional domains of business incubators for refugee entrepreneurs

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 687-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aki Harima ◽  
Julia Freudenberg ◽  
Jantje Halberstadt
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Functional Domains ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Distinctive Type ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize business incubators and their support for entrepreneurial refugees. While the number of initiatives supporting refugees’ entrepreneurial activities has increased in recent years, we still know little about how they differ from other types of business incubators. Design/methodology/approach This case study investigates a business incubator in Hamburg, Germany, targeting enterprising refugees. For this paper, 14 in-depth interviews with program participants and incubation managers were conducted. Findings This paper inductively derives five functional domains of refugee business incubators: providing structured entrepreneurial knowledge; alleviating anxiety related to institutional differences; guiding through the process at the incubator and motivating participants; understanding and tapping into social capital in the host country; and providing soft support concerning personal matters. The findings show that business incubators could and possibly should address specific needs of refugees and that there is much room for improvement. This study suggests that the five domains listed above represent key characteristics that distinguish refugee business incubators from traditional business incubators. Practical implications This paper offers valuable practical insights for refugee business incubators, which need to consider and develop functional domains listed above. Because these kinds of incubators are a fairly recent phenomenon, there is a general lack of and need for blueprints. The findings of this paper suggest that business incubators could integrate and support entrepreneurial refugees provided that they consider the five functional domains identified here. The findings also provide evidence that entrepreneurship can be a possible means of vocational integration for refugees and one way of institutions and policy-makers in host country seeking to support refugees’ entrepreneurial activities, for example, by developing or subsidizing business incubators targeting refugees. Originality/value This paper’s contributions are twofold. First, this paper addresses a gap in the literature on refugee entrepreneurship by providing insights concerning the important role of support institutions. Second, this paper conceptualizes business incubators for enterprising refugees as a distinctive type of business incubators. This paper has, however, some limitations. Because it only considered a relatively small number of refugee entrepreneurs, it is difficult to generalize the findings. The cross-cultural setting of the empirical study, with its potential for linguistic and cultural misunderstandings, may have affected the results.

scholarly journals Understanding immigrant entrepreneurship: a home-country entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carson Duan ◽  
Kamaljeet Sandhu ◽  
Bernice Kotey
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Home Country ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ◽  
Immigrant Entrepreneurship ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Immigrant Entrepreneurs ◽  
Country Effects ◽  
Entrepreneurial Capital

PurposeGiven the importance of immigration and immigrant entrepreneurs in advanced economies, the authors take an entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective to study the home-country benefits possessed by immigrant entrepreneurs and how home-country entrepreneurial ecosystem factors affect immigrant entrepreneurial motivations, activities and outcomes.Design/methodology/approachThis conceptual research paper follows McGaghie, Bordage and Shea's (2001) four-step new theory creation process, which suggests that new theories can be created through facts extraction from the extant literature.FindingsThe authors propose that although immigrant entrepreneurs are unable to take full benefit of the host-country entrepreneurial ecosystem due to blocked mobility, they do have capabilities to access and use their home-country entrepreneurial resources and opportunities. The authors further propose that home-country entrepreneurial capital can be systemically analyzed through the framework of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The results imply that immigrant entrepreneurship as a social and economic phenomenon can be studied more holistically from both host- and home-country perspectives compared to the traditional research boundary of the host-country only.Research limitations/implicationsThe research focuses on the identification of home-country effects on immigrant entrepreneurship through the lens of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Testable propositions provide directions for future empirical research on the field of immigrant entrepreneurship from a home-country perspective. The research concludes that a holistic immigrant entrepreneurship study should consider dual (host- and home-country) entrepreneurial ecosystems.Practical implicationsImmigrant entrepreneurs benefit from both host- and home-country entrepreneurial ecosystems. This paper suggests co-effects of dual entrepreneurial ecosystems lead to a high rate of entrepreneurship and business success within some immigrant groups. Policymakers can increase economic activities by developing and deploying programs to encourage immigrants to embed in host- and home-country entrepreneurial ecosystems.Originality/valueBased on the framework of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, this paper brings a novel perspective to examining home-country effects on immigrant entrepreneurship. It theoretically conceptualizes that immigrants have higher entrepreneurship rates than native-born populations because they have access to extra home-country entrepreneurial capital.

scholarly journals Value Creation of Business Incubator Functions: Economic and Social Sustainability in the COVID-19 Scenario

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6888
Author(s):  
Cristina Lin-Lian ◽  
Carmen De-Pablos-Heredero ◽  
José Luis Montes-Botella
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

Spain has encouraged support to sustain entrepreneurs in the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, the usefulness of the functions of business incubators regarding the social benefits derived from enhancing the sustainability of the entrepreneurial ecosystem is studied in the context of the COVID-19 scenario. Due to the lack of academic literature on the subject, an analysis based on the application of structural equation models (SEMs) has been carried out using a theoretical framework built and empirically validated using a representative sample of Spanish entrepreneurs. The results show that, according to stakeholders, the functionalities of business incubators were oriented to drive entrepreneurial initiatives to have highly positive effects on society. This research evidences that business incubators are key mechanisms to make entrepreneurship, growth and economic development more sustainable in society.

The Effects of Cross-border e-Commerce Platforms on Transnational Digital Entrepreneurship

2022 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Digital Ecosystem ◽  
Immigrant Entrepreneurs ◽  
Digital Entrepreneurship

This research examines the important concept of transnational digital entrepreneurship (TDE). The paper integrates the host and home country entrepreneurial ecosystems with the digital ecosystem to the framework of the transnational digital entrepreneurial ecosystem. The authors argue that cross-border e-commerce platforms provide critical foundations in the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem. Entrepreneurs who count on this ecosystem are defined as transnational digital entrepreneurs. Interview data were dissected for the purpose of case studies to make understanding from twelve Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs living in Australia and New Zealand. The results of the data analysis reveal that cross-border entrepreneurs are in actual fact relying on the significant framework of the transnational digital ecosystem. Cross-border e-commerce platforms not only play a bridging role between home and host country ecosystems but provide entrepreneurial capitals as digital ecosystem promised.

scholarly journals Relational coordination in the entrepreneurial ecosystem

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-158
Author(s):  
Débora de Esteban Escobar
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Delphi Method ◽  
Relational Coordination ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Coordination Model ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Support Programmes ◽  
Practical Implications

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of business incubators and business accelerators when launching any type of business initiative on to the market, with the aim of discovering whether or not they effectively meet the expectations of both job and value creation for society at large and, consequently, whether or not they are a profitable instrument to achieve this. The aim is to try to establish whether the results obtained from these organisations are a result of complying with the different dimensions of the relational coordination model. Methodology: The methodology of this article sets out a theoretical framework which highlights the organisations that exist to help the entrepreneur. At the same time, this is done by means of the Delphi method, a survey of different experts in the field, in order to obtain a number of conclusions or arguments that will provide more information. Results: The results of this study have been positive: entrepreneurship support programmes play an important role in the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, creating an ideal environment for startups. Limitations: A possible limitation of this study is that only business incubators and business accelerators have been involved, without bearing other types of organisations in mind, such as coworking centres, whose mission is also similar. Practical implications: There is currently a growing interest on the part of public administrations and private companies in creating organisations with these characteristics, with the aim of promoting innovation and economic development in our society.

scholarly journals Which factors affect the performance of technology business incubators in China? An entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective

PLoS ONE ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. e0261922
Author(s):  
Xiangfei Yuan ◽  
Haijing Hao ◽  
Chenghua Guan ◽  
Alex Pentland
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Related Factor ◽  
Panel Regression ◽  
Regional Data ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Regional Models ◽  
National Data ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ◽  
Data Set ◽  
National Model

To examine which factors affect the performance of technology business incubators in China, the present study proposes an entrepreneurial ecosystem framework with four key areas, i.e., people, technology, capital, and infrastructure. We then assess this framework using a three-year panel data set of 857 national-level technology business incubators in 33 major cities from 28 provinces in China, from 2015 to 2017. We utilize factor analysis to downsize dozens of characteristics of these technology business incubators into seven factors related to the four proposed areas. Panel regression model results show that four of the seven factors related to three areas of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, namely people, technology, and capital areas, have statistically significant associations with an incubator’s performance when applied to the overall national data set. Further, seven factors related to all four areas have various statistically significant associations with an incubator’s performance in five major regional data set. In particular, a technology related factor has a consistently statistically significant association with the performance of the incubator in both national model and the five regional models, as we expected.

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