Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/261477 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IAT Discussion Paper No. 22/05
Publisher: 
Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT), Gelsenkirchen
Abstract: 
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a changing environment for transnational migrant start-ups. These changes have posed many challenges concerning altering strategic behaviour and approaches to driving business. We explored transnational migrant start-ups' embeddedness in translocal entrepreneurial ecosystems by analysing data from 14 semi-structured interviews with start-ups from Berlin's knowledgeintensive business services sector. We argue that the success of transnational migrant start-ups during crises is largely dependent on embeddedness in the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. Thus, we expect entrepreneurs to utilise local networks, infrastructures and interactions to help them cope with the challenges at hand and to pave the way for translocal business activities. Our results indicate that structural embedding in local entrepreneurial ecosystems and a sense of belonging, especially during the business formation phase, play a vital role for transnational migrant start-ups.
Subjects: 
migrant entrepreneurship
migrant start-ups transnationalism
translocal embeddedness
COVID-19
crisis
entrepreneurial ecosystem
JEL: 
F63
O12
L26
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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