Entrepreneurship and identity: cosmopolitanism and cultural competencies among German‐Turkish businesspeople in Berlin
Entrepreneurship and identity: cosmopolitanism and cultural competencies among German‐Turkish businesspeople in Berlin
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创业精神与身份：柏林德国-土耳其商人的世界主义和文化能力
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2004
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A. Pécoud
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A. Pécoud
本文以柏林的土耳其企业家为例，探讨了企业家精神与身份认同之间的联系。它提供了经验材料，描述他们如何在寻找场所、招聘员工或瞄准客户等领域经营业务。店主被证明依赖于同种族和非同种族的资源，有人认为，这是这两套资源的组合，使企业能够生存。这意味着企业家在一个文化混杂的环境中生活和工作，他们拥有处理这种复杂性的必要技能和文化能力。世界主义的概念被提出来解决这种身份模式，有人认为，德国-土耳其商人显示出一种世界主义，其特点是其非精英，实用和半意识的维度。
This article investigates the connections between entrepreneurship and identity in the case of Turkish entrepreneurs in Berlin. It presents empirical material describing how they run their businesses in fields such as finding premises, recruiting staff or targeting a clientele. Shop‐owners are shown to rely both on co‐ethnic and non co‐ethnic resources and it is argued that it is the combination of these two sets of resources that enables businesses to survive. This implies that entrepreneurs live and work in a culturally mixed context and that they have the necessary skills and cultural competencies to handle this complexity. The concept of cosmopolitanism is proposed to address this identity pattern and it is argued that German‐Turkish businesspeople display a kind of cosmopolitanism that is characterised by its non‐elite, practical and half‐conscious dimensions.