‘What is Your Self-Made Expat Story?’ Netnography of Entrepreneurial Re-users of a Popular Semantic

Steffen Roth and Leo Dana

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Abstract: The label expatriates is increasingly used by and applied to a growing number of persons who do not fit classical concepts of company-driven expatriation. While relevant research is engaged in establishing interaction with smaller samples of self-initiated expatriates, the present article represents netnography of a larger, international sample of self-designated self-initiated expatriates who, independently of any research intervention, engaged in an online conversation headlined \textquotedblleftSelf-Made Expats?\textquotedblright on the international expatriates platform internations.com. While key findings from this non- responsive approach to the self-disclosures of an internationally diverse web community of self-made expatriates support certain dimensions of prevailing academic definitions, they also suggest reconsidering the so far disclaimed relevance of entrepreneurialism for the concept of self-initiated expatriation.

Keywords: self-initiated expatriation; self-made expats; entrepreneurial career paths; migrant entrepreneurship; internationsorg; netnography; expatriates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2016, 28 (4), pp.492-503. ⟨10.1504/IJESB.2016.077575⟩

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DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2016.077575

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