Diaspora entrepreneurs as institutional change agents: The case of Thamel.com

Liesl Riddle and Jennifer Brinkerhoff

International Business Review, 2011, vol. 20, issue 6, 670-680

Abstract: Diasporans are migrants and their descendants who maintain a relationship to their country of origin (Safran, 1991). Diasporans who establish new ventures in their countries of origin comprise a special case of international ethnic entrepreneurship.

Keywords: Ethnic entrepreneurship; International entrepreneurship; Diaspora; Developing countries; Institutional change; Institutional theory; Nepal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2011.02.013

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