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From Family Embeddedness to Families Embedding in Migrants' Opportunity Development Processes
Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4260-7276
Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Business Administration. Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9248-3705
2021 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Sustainable development
Sustainable Development
Abstract [en]

This paper examines the roles of family in migrant entrepreneurs’ opportunity development. We employ the opportunity development and family embeddedness for theory building purposes. We conducted a longitudinal inductive case study on four cases of migrant entrepreneurs who have established businesses in Sweden and who have their origins in Lebanon and Syria, Cameroon, and Mexico, documented with 29 interviews and field observations. The paper identifies families embedding occurring by means of three norms of reciprocity and obligations that facilitate the opportunity development process. These norms are fulfilling the expectations of family and the existing family business, regularly interacting with family and the existing family business, and deploying family and business loyalty. These norms are connected to specific sub-processes of opportunity development, namely, the generation of an entrepreneurial idea, shaping an entrepreneurial idea, and defining the (new) family venture offering. By identifying these norms in the opportunity development processes, we theorize that migrant entrepreneurs rely on different family members and the existing family business from the home or host country at different moments of the opportunity development process. Such dynamic creates different norms of reciprocity and obligations for migrant entrepreneurs and their families, which influence the opportunity development.

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2021. Vol. 2021, no 1, article id 1563
Keywords [en]
Migrant entrepreneurship; opportunity development process; family embeddedness, embedding, family entrepreneurship
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Business Administration International Migration and Ethnic Relations
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Business Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-55651DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2021.15963abstractOAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-55651DiVA, id: diva2:1631260
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81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: Bringing the Manager Back in Management, July 29 - August 4, 2021
Available from: 2021-04-25 Created: 2022-01-24 Last updated: 2022-01-22Bibliographically approved

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