Motivation of Japanese Descending Diaspora Entrepreneurs

• Authors: Harima Aki

Title variants

PL

Motywacja przedsiębiorców diaspory japońskiej będących potomkami emigrantów

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

PL

W artykule zaprezentowano motywację przedsiębiorczą członków diaspory japońskiej prowadzących działalność gospodarczą w krajach wschodzących. Pomimo że odgrywają oni coraz ważniejszą rolę we współczesnej transnarodowej gospodarce (Newland i Tanaka, 2010), badacze dotychczas głównie koncentrowali się na przedsiębiorcach pochodzących z krajów rozwijających się i migrujących do krajów bardziej rozwiniętych. Niemniej jednak także przedsiębiorcy pochodzący z krajów rozwiniętych zakładają przedsiębiorstwa w krajach wschodzących. Osoby te były z reguły pomijane w dotychczasowych badaniach, chociaż zakłada się, że ich działania przedsiębiorcze mają pozytywny wpływ na gospodarkę lokalną. Wnoszą one bowiem do krajów wschodzących wiedzę, zasoby i informacje z krajów rozwiniętych. Przede wszystkim stosunkowo sprzeczne z intuicją wydawać się może to, że przenoszą się ze środowisk bardziej bezpiecznych w miejsca o warunkach najwyraźniej mniej atrakcyjnych. Wiedza o czynnikach skłaniających je do podejmowania działań przedsiębiorczych jest nadal niewielka. W artykule po raz pierwszy przedstawiono bardzo złożone czynniki motywacyjne na podstawie wielu studiów przypadku przeprowadzonych wśród przedsiębiorców japońskich w krajach wschodzących. Główne pytanie badawcze brzmi: co skłania członków diaspory japońskiej do podjęcia działań przedsiębiorczych w krajach wschodzących? Wybraną metodą jest teoria ugruntowana (Charmaz, 2014), zgodnie z którą dokonano opisowej analizy i kodowania danych empirycznych. W końcowej części artykułu, opierając się na badaniu empirycznym, określono sześć głównych czynników motywacyjnych.

EN

This paper explores entrepreneurial motivation of Japanese diaspora entrepreneurs conducting their business in emerging countries. While diaspora entrepreneurs play an increasingly significant role in the modern transnationalizing economy (Newland & Tanaka, 2010), previous scholars have predominantly focused on those who originate from developing countries and migrate to more developed ones. There are, however, also entrepreneurs who originate from developed countries and establish their business in emerging countries. These people are almost invisible in the previous research even though their entrepreneurial activities are assumed to have positive impacts on the local economy. They transfer knowledge, resources and information from developed countries to emerging countries. In the first place, it sounds rather counter-intuitive that they move from richer and more secure contexts to apparently less attractive conditions. We know still very little about their entrepreneurial motivations. This paper takes a first step to investigate their highly complex motivations by conducting multiple case studies with Japanese entrepreneurs in several emerging countries. The central research question to be answered is: what drives Japanese diasporans to become entrepreneurs in emerging countries? A grounded theory (Charmaz, 2014) approach will be chosen and the empirical data will be analyzed descriptively and coded. At the end of this paper, six main motivational factors are identified through an empirical study.

Keywords

PL

motywacja przedsiębiorcza; przedsiębiorczość diaspory; przedsiębiorcy; diaspory-potomkowie emigrantów

EN

entrepreneurial motivation; diaspora entrepreneurship; descending diaspora entrepreneurs

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania
• Journal: Studia i Materiały
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 2/2015 (19)
• Pages: 22-36

Dates

issued

2015-11-15

Contributors

author

Harima Aki

• University of Bremen

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Identifiers

ISSN

1733-9758

DOI

10.7172/1733-9758.2015.19.2