Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy: Volume 17 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Migrant entrepreneurship and the roles of family beyond place and space: towards a family resourcefulness across borders perspective

Quang Vinh David Evansluong, Marcela Ramirez-Pasillas, Allan Discua Cruz, Maria Elo, Natalia Vershinina

How kinship resources alleviate structural disadvantage: self-employment duration among refugees and labor migrants

Aliaksei Kazlou, Karl Wennberg

Economic integration of refugees remains a challenge for developed countries. Although refugees differ greatly from labor migrants in available resources and motivation toward…

Family across borders social capital and diaspora entrepreneurial preparedness

Eva Karayianni, Elias Hadjielias, Loukas Glyptis

The purpose of this paper is to study the way in which family ties influence the entrepreneurial preparedness of the diaspora family business owner.

Examining network characteristic dynamics of kinship-based families on performance within Indonesian SMEs

Hardo Firmana Given Grace Manik, Nurul Indarti, Andy Susilo Lukito-Budi

This study aims to examine the moderating effect of firm age and size on the relationship between network characteristics (network centrality, network density and tie strength…

Does family involvement help small migrant businesses survive? A closer examination of family in migrant entrepreneurship

Zonghui Li, Douglas Johansen

Drawing on the resource-based view, this study aims to examine how family involvement in migrant-founded small businesses gives rise to distinctive resources that help these…

Entrepreneurship, family and migration: a systematic literature review on Vietnamese migrant entrepreneurship

Anh Nguyen Quoc, Dai Nguyen Van, Nu Nguyet Anh Nguyen

The purpose of this study is to systematically review the literature on the intersections among family, migration and entrepreneurship in the context of Vietnam. This paper aims…

Not without family: refugee family entrepreneurship and economic integration process

Khizran Zehra, Sadia Usmani

Refugee entrepreneurship is increasing because of the increased influx of refugees around the globe. This leaves us with the question that how refugees integrate economically in…

Expanding understanding of family social capital in crowdfunding of migrant entrepreneurial ventures

Nadia Arshad, Adele Berndt

The purpose of this study is to understand the role of the migrant entrepreneur’s social capital and specifically their family social capital in the success of their crowdfunding…