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2017 | 1/2017 (65), t.1 | 97 – 109

Article title

The Ethnic Entrepreneurship as a Multidimensional Process in the Context of System Approach

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PL
Przedsiębiorczość etniczna jako proces wielowymiarowy w kontekście analizy systemowej

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Abstracts

EN
The presence of migrants in the economically developed countries’ marketplaces has been growing in the last decades. It seems to be very inaccurate to do research in economics and social science without taking migrants’ participation in the labour market into consideration. Migrants not only participate in the labour market as employees but also they act as entrepreneurs. The nature of migrant entrepreneurship has been changing. Nowadays, migrants are starting businesses in sectors different from traditional retail or hotel and catering industries. Interestingly, the second generation of migrants born in the destination countries are following different businesses trajectories than their parents did, using the social capital and links between sending and receiving markets. Migrants are starting to act as new important actors in the economies of developed countries. Taking into account the existing research in this area, we propose a systematic approach to ethnic entrepreneurship, which is the main purpose of this article. Our system approach related to social sciences is understood as the recognition of macro- and medium- ranged dimensions of the system approach, and it presents ethnic entrepreneurship at three levels of analysis: input, system, output.
PL
Obecność migrantów w rynkach krajów gospodarczo rozwiniętych w ciągu ostatnich dziesięcioleci systematycznie wzrasta. Imigranci nie tylko uczestniczą w rynku pracy jako pracownicy, ale także funkcjonują jako przedsiębiorcy na zasadzie samozatrudnienia. Rola i znaczenie przedsiębiorczości wśród migrantów zmienia się. Obecnie migranci rozpoczynają działalność w sektorach innych niż tradycyjny handel detaliczny czy też branża hotelarska oraz gastronomia. Co ciekawe, drugie pokolenie imigrantów urodzonych w krajach docelowych nie przejmuje w zakresie aktywności przedsiebiorczej biznesów swoich rodziców, jednakowoż bazuje na wytworzonym kapitale społecznym i więziach powstałych na linii między państwem pochodzenia a krajem migracji. Imigranci coraz częściej stają się nowym, ważnym zasobem rynków pracy państw rozwiniętych gospodarczo. Biorąc pod uwagę stan istniejących badań w tej dziedzinie, proponujemy systemowe podejście do przedsiębiorczości etnicznej, co jest także głównym celem tego artykułu. Nasze podejście systemowe odnosi się do metodologii nauk społecznych zarówno w kontekście analizy systemowej makro, jak i średnego zasięgu. Pozwala to na analizę przedsiębiorczości etnicznej na trzech poziomach: wejścia, centrum systemu i wyjścia.

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Pages

97 – 109

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published
2017-03-30

Contributors

  • University of Wrocław, Institute of International Studies
  • University of Wrocław, Institute of International Studies

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Publication order reference

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ISSN
1644-9584

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