Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-2013

Publication Title

Thunderbird International Business Review

Volume

55

Issue

3

First Page

271

Keywords

Immigrant Entrepreneurs, International New Ventures

Last Page

284

Abstract

We studied 561 young firms in Australia to understand the involvement of immigrant entrepreneurs (IEs) in international new ventures (INVs). We found that IEs are overrepresented in INVs and have many characteristics known to facilitate INV success, including more founders, university degrees, international connections, and technical capability. Our study has implications for immigration policy and economic policy and the efficient use of a nation's human capital. This research challenges a necessity-based stereotype of immigrant entrepreneurs by identifying areas in which immigrant entrepreneurs have natural competitive advantages over native entrepreneurs (NEs). This research makes a contribution to the theory of immigrant entrepreneurship by identifying the significant role of immigrant entrepreneurs in INVs and the suitability of immigrant entrepreneurs for the development of INVs. We inform diverse streams of research in transnational and immigrant entrepreneurship with broader strategic work on the creation of INVs. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This research was partly funded by an Australian Academy of Social Sciences research grant. A previous version of this paper was presented at Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), 2011, Syracuse.

DOI

10.1002/tie.21543

Comments

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Characteristics of Immigrant Entrepreneurs and their Involvement in International New Ventures, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/tie.21543. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

Download

Included in

Business Commons

Share

COinS