Capturing Transnational Entrepreneurial Opportunities through Dual Identification: Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Transnational Activities

Abd Hamid Hamizah (), Ayob Abu Hanifah (), Sidek Farhana () and Che Senik Zizah
Additional contact information
Abd Hamid Hamizah: Faculty of Economics and Management, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Ayob Abu Hanifah: Faculty of Economics and Management, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Sidek Farhana: Faculty of Economics and Management, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Che Senik Zizah: Faculty of Economics and Management, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 2024, vol. 14, issue 1, 255-281

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the way immigrant entrepreneurs (IEs) capture transnational opportunities in their home and host countries. Through an identity lens, this study adopts a qualitative approach in examining transnational entrepreneurship activities conducted by IEs from three countries (Indonesia, Pakistan and South Korea [henceforth Korea]) in one host country (Malaysia). The findings indicate that IEs’ home-host country identities enable them to recognize and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities in multiple countries through unique resources difficult to be imitated by competitors in their home and host countries. This paper contributes to the international entrepreneurship literature by introducing an identity-sensitive model of immigrant entrepreneurship in transnational spaces which will be useful for policy and practice concerning trade and migration.

Keywords: identity lens; immigrant entrepreneurs; international entrepreneurs; transnational entrepreneurs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2020-0325 (text/html)
For access to full text, subscription to the journal or payment for the individual article is required.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bpj:erjour:v:14:y:2024:i:1:p:255-281:n:3

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/erj/html

DOI: 10.1515/erj-2020-0325

Access Statistics for this article

Entrepreneurship Research Journal is currently edited by Chandra S. Mishra and Ramona K. Zachary

More articles in Entrepreneurship Research Journal from De Gruyter
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().