Immigrant Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research

• Authors: Glinka Beata

Title variants

PL

Przedsiębiorczość imigrantów jako dziedzina badań

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

The article presents immigrant entrepreneurship as a field of research. In the first section, the main concepts related to immigrant entrepreneurship are recounted. It is followed by an analysis of factors that give grounds for regarding immigrant entrepreneurship as a separate field of research. Several important trends and tendencies in immigrant entrepreneurship research are also outlined. The last section is devoted to a discussion on potential challenges faced by researchers.

PL

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie przedsiębiorczości imigrantów jako obszaru badań, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem jego kulturowego kontekstu. Tekst rozpoczyna prezentacja podstawowych pojęć związanych z przedsiębiorczością imigrantów. Wskazane zostały elementy specyfiki, które powodują, że przedsiębiorczość imigrantów może być traktowana jako odrębny obszar badawczy. W opracowaniu wskazano także wybrane trendy w badaniach i wyzwania stojące obecnie przed badaczami przedsiębiorczości imigrantów.

Keywords

EN

entrepreneurship; migrations; culture; immigrant entrepreneurship; cultural context of entrepreneurship; mixed embeddedness

PL

przedsiębiorczość; migracje; kultura; przedsiębiorczość migrantów kulturowy kontekst przedsiębiorczości mieszane zakorzenienie

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Problemy Zarządzania
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 1/2018 (73), t.2
• Pages: 25-39

Dates

published

2018-03-02

Contributors

author

Glinka Beata

• Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw

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Identifiers

ISSN

1644-9584

DOI

10.7172/1644-9584.73.2