التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Entrepreneurship Against Unemployment: The Lived Experiences of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Four Countries. |
| المؤلفون: |
Downs, Carolyn, Lazuras, Lambros, Ketikidis, Panayiotis |
| المصدر: |
Proceedings of the European Conference on Entrepreneurship & Innovation; 2012, Issue 1, p183-189, 7p |
| مستخلص: |
Entrepreneurship can be seen as a potential solution for financial growth and as effective means to counter unemployment, especially in times of economic downturn. In order to alleviate the burden of unemployment and reenergize the wider economy, entrepreneurial activity is encouraged by EU policy such as the Small Business Act for Europe. The globalized economy and the existing economic crisis may lead to greater mobility of human resources and a consequent expansion in opportunities for immigrant entrepreneurship in Europe. In this context, success stories of immigrant entrepreneurs are useful as they highlight the factors that facilitate or hinder immigrant entrepreneurship which in turn provide evidence for effective policy making and, if effectively disseminated, may also provide a significant input to potential business start-ups. The present study is part of the ELIE (Employability: Learning through International Entrepreneurship) Project, and presents the lived experiences of immigrant entrepreneurs from four EU countries. Specifically, a new model for breaking down socio-cultural barriers to entrepreneurship will be presented, based upon the lived experience of immigrant entrepreneurs in four EU countries. Structured interviews were used in an overall sample of randomly selected 198 immigrant entrepreneurs living in the UK, Finland, Greece, and Poland. The findings showed that there was significant commonality in the socio-cultural factors that promote or hinder immigrant entrepreneurship in each country coupled with significant variation in the structural factors (e.g., bureaucracy) encouraging or limiting entrepreneurship. The paper will show how the experiences of successful immigrant entrepreneurs have led to the development of an innovative approach to the promotion of immigrant entrepreneurship and discuss the benefits of the ELIE taxonomy of international entrepreneurship. Recommendations for policy making and for the development of tailor made courses for SME learners and graduate students will also be provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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