Nascent migrant entrepreneurship in Germany - is there a cultural imprinting effect?

Sascha Kraus and Arndt Werner

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2012, vol. 15, issue 3, 320-339

Abstract: Based on an empirical investigation of 1,806 potential entrepreneurs, this article provides indications that with growing integration, people with a migrant background are increasingly less distinguishable from their German counterparts with regards to the willingness to found a new company. A 'cultural imprinting' effect in the sense of temporally stabile founding tendencies between different cultures cannot be identified. Interestingly, our analysis also shows that a higher tendency of non-integrated migrants to start a business is mostly attributable to their background in an industrialised nation, and not from the former 'Anwerberstaaten' or developing/emerging countries.

Keywords: start-up determinants; business start-ups; start-up process; migrants; entrepreneurship; Germany; new companies; immigrants; cultural differences; culture. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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