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Publication date: 22 June 2012

Zafar U. Ahmed, Philip W. Zgheib, Abdulrahim K. Kowatly and Peter Rhetts

The Lebanese began their present emigration in the middle of the nineteenth century, heading towards North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia…

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Purpose

The Lebanese began their present emigration in the middle of the nineteenth century, heading towards North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. Today's Lebanese diaspora is made of highly educated and prominent entrepreneurs who have created huge marks in their adopted homelands and the world. In the current study the authors aim to explore this and make suggestions for future research.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors use historical literature review and synthesis in order to explore the topic and make suggestions for future research.

Findings

The authors find that entrepreneurs from Lebanon have had a significant impact on the economies of many parts of the world.

Originality/value

This paper is original in that it brings together the research on entrepreneurship and Lebanon so that future researchers can have good ideas as to ways to pursue future cross‐cultural research.

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Journal of Management History, vol. 18 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1751-1348

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Publication date: 19 April 2013

Zafar U. Ahmed, Philip W. Zgheib, Shawn Carraher and Abdulrahim K. Kowatly

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between demographic and public policy with the entrepreneurial related variables of entrepreneurial orientation, self…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between demographic and public policy with the entrepreneurial related variables of entrepreneurial orientation, self employment, customer service, and leadership.

Design/methodology/approach

Results from 264 first generation expatriate entrepreneurs from Lebanon are used in order to examine the relationships between the variables using a mail questionnaire.

Findings

It was found that educational level was important with all of the dependent variables and that the public policy variable of Property Rights was related to entrepreneurial orientation.

Research limitations/implications

The major limitation of the research is that there was range restriction in the dependent variables, likely due to the sample characteristic of them all being expatriate entrepreneurs. The major implications of the study include that additional research should examine the importance of public policy variables with entrepreneurs and the importance of education in encouraging entrepreneurial activities.

Originality/value

Very little research has examined expatriate entrepreneurs and nearly none has examined the relationship between public policy and expatriate entrepreneurship.

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Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, vol. 2 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2045-2101

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Publication date: 7 January 2014

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Journal of Management History, vol. 20 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1751-1348

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