Immigrant Entrepreneurship in an Emerging Economy: The Case of Turkey
基于对伊斯坦布尔22位移民创业者的访谈，研究了土耳其移民创业的动机和路径，发现他们利用母国和东道国的内部市场知识识别机会，并凭借语言、文化和宗教知识建立信任关系，从事较少边缘化的经济活动。
This paper examines motivations for, and paths to, entrepreneurship among immigrants in Turkey based on interviews with 22 immigrant entrepreneurs in Istanbul. Findings suggest that immigrant entrepreneurs in a developing economy may be different from their counterparts in well‐established economies. First, immigrant entrepreneurs rely on their unique human and social capital in the process of starting businesses thanks to their ability to identify opportunities based on insider knowledge of the market in their home and host countries. Second, their ability to foster trusting relationships thanks to language, cultural, and religious knowledge permits immigrant entrepreneurs in an emerging economy to engage in less economically marginal activities.