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The role of family social capital in immigrants' entrepreneurial opportunity creation processes

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  • Quang Evansluong
  • Marcela Ramírez-Pasillas

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This paper conducts an inductive case study to build a theory on the role of family in both the host and home countries in immigrant entrepreneurs' attempts at creating entrepreneurial opportunities. We used the perspectives of the opportunity creation process and family social capital. We relied on data collected from four cases of immigrant entrepreneurs from Lebanon, Syria, Cameroon and Mexico who have established businesses in Sweden. The paper identified three sources of family social capital: family duties, family trust and family support as being relevant for creating opportunities. While family duties triggered the process of forming an entrepreneurial idea, this process was advanced by the existence of family trust. Family support was then the building block for launching an entrepreneurial idea. By identifying these three sources of family social capital, we show that families in the host and home countries contribute to immigrant entrepreneurs' opportunity creation.

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  • Quang Evansluong & Marcela Ramírez-Pasillas, 2019. "The role of family social capital in immigrants' entrepreneurial opportunity creation processes," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 36(1/2), pages 164-188.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:36:y:2019:i:1/2:p:164-188
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    1. Barbieri, Paolo Nicola & Nguyen, Hieu M., 2021. "When in America, do as the Americans? The evolution of health behaviors and outcomes across immigrant cohorts," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 43(C).
    2. R. Isil Yavuz & Berrak Bahadir, 2022. "Remittances, ethnic diversity, and entrepreneurship in developing countries," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 58(4), pages 1931-1952, April.
    3. Glinka, Beata & Glińska-Neweś, Aldona & Zakrzewska-Bielawska, Agnieszka, 2023. "A resource interaction perspective on resource use and development in migrant entrepreneur networks," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 159(C).

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