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Matching opportunities with resources: A framework for analysing (migrant) entrepreneurship from a mixed embeddedness perspective

Matching opportunities with resources: A framework for analysing (migrant) entrepreneurship from... In this article, an innovative analytical framework for the analysis of (migrant) entrepreneurship is presented. The approach combines the micro-level of the individual entrepreneur (with his or her resources), with the meso-level of the local opportunity structure and links the latter, in more loose way, to the macro-institutional framework. This way, insights on the necessary resources of an (aspiring/nascent) entrepreneur with views on opportunity structures can be combined. A simple typology of the opportunity structure is presented which distinguishes between different kind of openings based, on the one hand, on differences in entry barriers (in terms of human capital), and, on the other, on their dynamics (growing or stagnating). This comprehensive analytical framework relates (shifts in) opportunities, resources and outcomes of immigrant entrepreneurship in a systematic way. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Entrepreneurship & Regional Development Taylor & Francis

Matching opportunities with resources: A framework for analysing (migrant) entrepreneurship from a mixed embeddedness perspective

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Taylor & Francis
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Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN
1464-5114
eISSN
0898-5626
DOI
10.1080/08985620903220488
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Abstract

In this article, an innovative analytical framework for the analysis of (migrant) entrepreneurship is presented. The approach combines the micro-level of the individual entrepreneur (with his or her resources), with the meso-level of the local opportunity structure and links the latter, in more loose way, to the macro-institutional framework. This way, insights on the necessary resources of an (aspiring/nascent) entrepreneur with views on opportunity structures can be combined. A simple typology of the opportunity structure is presented which distinguishes between different kind of openings based, on the one hand, on differences in entry barriers (in terms of human capital), and, on the other, on their dynamics (growing or stagnating). This comprehensive analytical framework relates (shifts in) opportunities, resources and outcomes of immigrant entrepreneurship in a systematic way.

Journal

Entrepreneurship & Regional DevelopmentTaylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 2010

Keywords: immigrant entrepreneurship; opportunity structure; mixed embeddedness; social capital; varieties of capitalism

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