{"title":"Immigrants’ entrepreneurial intentions: acculturation-based socio-psychological lens","authors":"Ratan J. S. Dheer, Aycan Kara","doi":"10.1007/s11365-024-01003-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The past few decades have witnessed an increase in individuals leaving their country of origin, settling, and pursuing venture creation opportunities in different parts of the world. However, despite anecdotal evidence, little theoretical attention has focused on understanding how exposure to another culture shapes the entrepreneurial intent of immigrant individuals. We integrate insights from acculturation, entrepreneurship, and social identity literature to illustrate how acculturation impacts immigrants’ entrepreneurial cognitions and motivations, influencing their perceived feasibility and desirability of starting new ventures. We bring to the fore the under-researched yet critically important psychological, cognitive, and social factors underlying immigrant entrepreneurship. We contribute to the acculturation and entrepreneurship literature, advancing implications for migrant policymaking.</p>","PeriodicalId":48058,"journal":{"name":"International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-024-01003-2","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The past few decades have witnessed an increase in individuals leaving their country of origin, settling, and pursuing venture creation opportunities in different parts of the world. However, despite anecdotal evidence, little theoretical attention has focused on understanding how exposure to another culture shapes the entrepreneurial intent of immigrant individuals. We integrate insights from acculturation, entrepreneurship, and social identity literature to illustrate how acculturation impacts immigrants’ entrepreneurial cognitions and motivations, influencing their perceived feasibility and desirability of starting new ventures. We bring to the fore the under-researched yet critically important psychological, cognitive, and social factors underlying immigrant entrepreneurship. We contribute to the acculturation and entrepreneurship literature, advancing implications for migrant policymaking.
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The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal (IEMJ) publishes high quality manuscripts dealing with entrepreneurship, broadly defined, and the management of entrepreneurial organizations. The journal will expand the study of entrepreneurship and management by publishing innovative articles based on different perspectives using a variety of methodological approaches and showing the practical implications of the research for its readership. IEMJ is unique; providing a multi-disciplinary forum for researchers, scholars, consultants, entrepreneurs, businessmen, managers and practitioners in the field of entrepreneurship. The journal covers the relationship between management and entrepreneurship including both conceptual and empirical papers, leading to an improvement in the understanding of international entrepreneurial perspectives of the organisations concerned. Entrepreneurial studies are important in creating new economic activity that in turn increases innovation, employment, economic wealth and growth. The journal focuses on the diverse and complex characteristics of entrepreneurship in SMEs and large companies in local, regional, national or international markets that lead to competitiveness in the face of the effects of globalization. Though preference will be given to manuscripts that are international in scope, papers focused on domestic contexts and issues are welcome also, in order to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and potential generalizability of findings worldwide. IEMJ will publish original papers which contribute to the advancement of the field of entrepreneurship and the interface between management and entrepreneurship, as well as articles on business corporate strategy and government economic policy. On occasions, the journal will also feature case studies of successful firms or other cases having important practical implications. The journal places great emphasis on the quality of the papers it publishes. Submission of a paper will imply that it contains original unpublished work and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Officially cited as: Int Entrep Manag J