Author: Nick Williams Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0190911875 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 181
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"This book analyses the role that the diaspora play when returning as entrepreneurs to their homeland. Returnee entrepreneurs are defined as individuals who have moved away from their home country and lived as part of the diaspora, and have later returned home to live, invest or both. With increased movements of people around the world, the role of transnational economic activity is becoming ever more significant, yet little is still understood about the motivations and contribution of those who return to their homeland to undertake entrepreneurial activity. The book examines return to post-conflict economies, with the returnees initially forced to move due to war. In doing so, it examines policy approaches to return, the intentions of returnees and highlights the important role that emotional attachment plays in harnessing return. The book recognises the undoubted potential of diaspora entrepreneurs to benefit their homeland. Yet it also recognises the challenges in doing so. Not all diaspora entrepreneurship will be beneficial. Not all policy interventions will be effective, despite good intentions. Yet the lessons contained within this book are that by understanding the challenges and opportunities associated with diaspora return entrepreneurship, more effective strategies can be put in place"--
Author: Nick Williams Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190911891 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 304
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With increased movements of people around the world, the role of transnational economic activity is becoming ever more significant. Yet little is understood about the motivations and contribution of those who return to their homeland to undertake entrepreneurial activity. The Diaspora and Returnee Entrepreneurship analyzes the role that the diaspora play when returning as entrepreneurs to their homeland. Nick Williams investigates "returnee entrepreneurs," or people who have moved away from their home country, lived as part of the diaspora, and later returned home to live, invest, or both. Based on exhaustive research, this book examines the motivations and activities of these returnee entrepreneurs coming back to challenging homeland economies. Williams draws on evidence from the post-conflict economies of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Montenegro, all of which are characterized by relatively weak institutional environments. His analysis shows how return to complex environments is often not based on perceived profit opportunities but is due to an emotional attachment informing investment decisions. Exploring questions of isolation versus assimilation, institutional involvement, and personal networking, the book covers more than just the policy approaches that extract higher levels of remittances and studies broad and varied approaches being used by governments around the world, specifically those in post-conflict economies. Through an in-depth study of the dynamics of return and entrepreneurship, this book shows that concerted efforts need to be made to improve perceptions of state political institutions among the diaspora to secure further assimilation, investment, and prosperity. Williams proves that by understanding the challenges and opportunities associated with diaspora return entrepreneurship, more effective strategies can, and should, be put in place.
Author: Ojo, Sanya Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1522519920 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 334
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The advancement and progression of migrant businesses has increased significantly in the globalized modern society. As such, current research has emerged regarding the characteristics of transnational economic activities. Diasporas and Transnational Entrepreneurship in Global Contexts is an essential reference publication for the latest material on the nature, process, and outcome of migrant entrepreneurs’ economic activities expanding from their countries of origin to their countries of residence. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as regional growth, industrial development, and employment generation, this book is ideally designed for researchers, advanced-level students, practitioners, managers, and policy-makers seeking current research on how economic development can be encouraged and nurtured among ethnic entrepreneurs and businesses.
Author: Maria Elo Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 1848884036 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 177
Book Description
Diaspora Business provides interdisciplinary views and empirical research on diaspora in the global business and economy. It presents developed, emerging and developing countries and aspects from investments to institutional support.
Author: Sanya Ojo Publisher: ISBN: 9781526459633 Category : Labor policy Languages : en Pages :
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Recent paradigms have highlighted the capacity of returnee migrants to generate developmental impacts on their countries of origin through investment of their capital. This group of migrants could contribute remotely through various channels of engagement, such as knowledge and skills transfers, financial remittances, diaspora direct investments, entrepreneurial undertakings, and diaspora networks. This case study evaluates strategies that a motivated returnee entrepreneur employed in establishing and managing her business activities in her country of origin. The case also investigates obstacles she encounters. At a crossroad, the entrepreneur is contemplating her next move, utilising her personal and entrepreneurial experiences. The choices are threefold: to remain, to retreat, or to readjust.
Author: Maria Elo Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319910957 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 650
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This contributed volume focuses on diasporans, their characteristics, networks, resources and activities in relation to international business and entrepreneurship. It presents an overview of diaspora concepts from an economic perspective, and analyzes the global-economic and societal effects and mechanisms, revealing both positive and negative aspects of diaspora activities. Providing insights into the socio-cultural influences, it discusses diaspora entrepreneurship and international business, the respective organisational models, investments and business types. Lastly it offers an assessment of managing diaspora resources and policymaking. This book was created by an interdisciplinary team of editors, co-authors and reviewers including historians, sociologists, psychologists, linguists and ethnologists, as well as experts in public policy, international business, marketing and entrepreneurship. This unique team (many of the authors are themselves diasporans with an extensive understanding of their topic) provides the first global academic platform on the subject, combining the latest empirical evidence from developing, emerging, transitional and developed countries with various combinations of diaspora flows that to date have received little attention.
Author: Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190278234 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 376
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Externally-promoted institutional reform, even when nominally accepted by developing country governments, often fails to deliver lasting change. Diasporans-immigrants who still feel a connection to their country of origin-may offer an In-Between Advantage for institutional reform, which links problem understanding with potential solutions, and encompasses vision, impact, operational, and psycho-social advantages. Individuals with entrepreneurial characteristics can catalyzing institutional reform. Diasporans may have particular advantages for entrepreneurship, as they live both psychologically and materially between the place of origin they left and the new destination they have embraced. Their entrepreneurial characteristics may be accidental, cultivated through the migration and diaspora experience, or innate to individuals' personalities. This book articulates the diaspora institutional entrepreneur In-Between Advantage, proposes a model for understanding the characteristics and motivational influences of entrepreneurs generally and how they apply to diaspora entrepreneurs in particular, and presents a staged model of institutional entrepreneur actions. I test these frameworks through case narratives of social institutional reform in Egypt, economic institutional reform in Ethiopia, and political institutional reform in Chad. In addition to identifying policy implications, this book makes important theoretical contributions in three areas. First, it builds on existing and emerging critiques of international development assistance that articulate prescriptions related to alternative theories of change. Second, it fills an important gap in the literature by focusing squarely on the role of agency in institutional reform processes while still accounting for organizational systems and socio-political contexts. In doing so, it integrates a more expansive view of entrepreneurism into extant understandings of institutional entrepreneurism, and it sheds light on what happens in the frequently-invoked black box of agency. Third, it demonstrates the fallacy of many theoretical frameworks that seek to order institutional change processes into neatly definable linear stages.
Author: Rolf Sternberg Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1788118693 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 425
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This comprehensive Research Handbook provides insights into entrepreneurship across a range of country contexts, migration corridors and national policies to provide a collection of conceptual, empirical and policy-focused findings addressing transnational diaspora entrepreneurship. Chapters illustrate the phenomenon, considering what it is, how it works and how it is regulated.
Author: Lin Publisher: ISBN: 9781847209177 Category : Languages : en Pages : 256
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Contemporary diaspora entrepreneurs (CDEs) are returned diaspora individuals engaging in entrepreneurial activities within knowledge-intensive sectors. CDEs are different from the conventional international entrepreneurs who conduct risky yet potentially rewarding business in foreign countries, the classic ethnic/immigrant entrepreneurs who run business ventures in countries of residence, and the time-honored transnational entrepreneurs in traditional business sectors. Interweaving contemporary evidence with historical analyses, the book advances a theory of contemporary diaspora entrepreneurship with substantive evidence from China, a country witnessing the most dramatic development of CDEs. It encapsulates the first attempt to fully capture the notion of contemporary diaspora entrepreneurship and its social versus economic and national versus international impacts.
Author: Osa-godwin Osaghae Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9811290547 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 210
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This book focuses on the role of immigrants in building economic, social and political relationships between countries. In this era of growing global interconnectedness, international migration and immigrant issues have become a significant source of disunity between countries. In some receiving countries, immigrants are now workforce replacements for an ageing population, while in sending countries immigrants use the experience gained in their country of residence for investment and entrepreneurial activity in their country of origin. This has led to the suggestion that immigrant activities are no longer a process of bridging the economic imbalance between nations, but rather the bridging of economic, social and political relationships.Transnational diaspora entrepreneurial activity relies on the relationship between immigrants and their home country, their understanding of the economic, political, and social systems in both their home and host countries, and the demand for their home country's cultural goods. As the demand for home cultural goods grows, there is a need to establish businesses that can operate across multiple environments. This book posits that transnational diaspora entrepreneurship can be seen as the internationalization process of immigrant entrepreneurship. It explains the role of enclaves in supporting this activity and offers valuable insights into how immigrant enclave activity and informal networking influence transnational diaspora entrepreneurship.
Author: Nick Williams
Author: Nick Williams
Author: Ojo, Sanya
Author: Maria Elo
Author: Sanya Ojo
Author: Maria Elo
Author: Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
Author: Rolf Sternberg
Author: Lin
Author: Osa-godwin Osaghae