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'What is your self-made expat story?' Netnography of entrepreneurial re-users of a popular semantic

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  • Steffen Roth
  • Léo-Paul Dana

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The label 'expatriate' is increasingly used by, and applied to, an increasing number of persons who do not fit classical concepts of company-driven expatriation. While relevant research is engaged in establishing interaction with smaller samples of self-initiated expatriates, the present article represents netnography of a larger, international sample of self-designated self-initiated expatriates who, independently of any research intervention, engaged in an online conversation headlined 'Self-Made Expats?' on the international expatriates platform internations.org. While key findings from this non-responsive approach to the self-disclosures of an internationally-diverse web community of self-made expatriates support certain dimensions of prevailing academic definitions, they also suggest reconsidering the so far disclaimed relevance of entrepreneurial spirit for the concept of self-initiated expatriation.

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  • Steffen Roth & Léo-Paul Dana, 2016. "'What is your self-made expat story?' Netnography of entrepreneurial re-users of a popular semantic," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 28(4), pages 492-503.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:28:y:2016:i:4:p:492-503
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