Migrant entrepreneurs and social capital: a revised perspective
Migrant entrepreneurs and social capital: a revised perspective
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10.1108/13552551111139647
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2011-06
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Andreia Tolciu
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Andreia Tolciu
目的-本文的目的是通过将社会资本的概念嵌入到基于经济激励和有限理性的框架中，挑战“种族过度社会化”移民企业家的主流观点。与以往的研究发展的混合嵌入的方法，本文旨在提供一个平衡的模型，高估了文化因素和种族的重要性，忽视了经济激励在个人行为的作用。设计/方法/途径-这项研究依赖于58土耳其企业家，第一代和第二代半结构化访谈，2008年10月和2009.1月之间在汉堡进行的调查结果-结果提出了一个观点，移民企业家首先是最重要的经济行为者，他们主要了解他们的种族社会资本作为一个战略，经济资源的行动。研究表明，农民工创业现象可以理解为...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to challenge the mainstream idea of “ethnically over‐socialised” migrant entrepreneurs, by embedding the concept of social capital in a framework based on economic incentives and bounded rationality. In line with previous studies which develop on the mixed embeddedness approach, this paper seeks to provide a counterbalance to models which overestimate the importance of cultural factors and ethnicity and neglect the role of economic incentives in individual behaviour.Design/methodology/approach – The study relies on 58 semi‐structured interviews with Turkish entrepreneurs, both first and second generation, conducted in Hamburg between October 2008 and January 2009.Findings – The results present a perspective in which migrant entrepreneurs are first and foremost economic actors, who predominantly understand their ethnic social capital as a strategic, economic resource for action. The study illustrates that the phenomenon of migrant entrepreneurship can be understood on...