Host versus home country influence on the immigrant entrepreneurial process : an imprinting perspective

Thai, Mai Thi Thanh (author), Simba, Amon (author), Dabić, Marina (author)

Since its first use in organisational research, nearly five decades ago, imprinting has gained recognition in entrepreneurship studies. Accordingly, this study utilises the behavioural concept to develop new theorisations to account for the entrepreneurial processes of immigrant entrepreneurs. It pays attention on its effects on immigrant entrepreneurs, particularly when it comes to their decision-making and behaviours towards business creation in Canada. A comprehensive analysis of a dataset generated from a systematically selected group of immigrant entrepreneurs revealed the complexity of their imprints at various stages of their entrepreneurial cycle in the North American country. It emerged that imprinting not only modified their behaviours, attitudes and cognition, but also shaped the trajectory of their entrepreneurial processes. That is, their imprints had an effect on how they identified business opportunities, the types of businesses they pursued, their level of entrepreneurial drive, and the types of resources they acquired or accessed in their new environment. Notably, following a period of normalisation in their new surroundings, their original imprints changed due to diminishing affinity with their country-of-origin. This holds research and policy implications as it uncovers an unfolding but less-understood entrepreneurship phenomenon.

• Language: English
• Keywords: entrepreneurship, start-up, economic development, new firms
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 3597-3638
• Numbering: Vol. 18, iss. 12
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164888
• UDC: 658
• ISSN on article: 1863-6683
• DOI: 10.1007/s11846-024-00727-3
• COBISS.SI-ID: 182816003
• Publication date in RUL: 15.11.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Review of managerial science
• Shortened title: Rev. manag. sci.
• Publisher: Springer
• ISSN: 1863-6683
• COBISS.SI-ID: 514963737

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: podjetništvo, zagonsko podjetje, ekonomski razvoj

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0441
• Name: Regeneracija ekonomije in posla