Transnational entrepreneurs: opportunity or necessity driven? Empirical evidence from two dynamic economies from Latin America and Europe

Transnational Entrepreneurship (TE) is an increasingly important phenomenon, symptomatic for a globalised world with a large extent of migrants and interchanges between their countries of origin and residence. Our article deploys a unique data set which compares TE for two different national context...

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Published in:Journal of ethnic and migration studies 2020-07, Vol.46 (10), p.2008-2026
Main Authors: von Bloh, Johannes, Mandakovic, Vesna, Apablaza, Mauricio, Amorós, José Ernesto, Sternberg, Rolf
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chile
Embeddedness
entrepreneurial ecosystem
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Germany
global entrepreneurship monitor
institutions
Migrants
National systems
opportunity driven
Presumption
Residence
Transnational entrepreneurship
Transnationalism
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Summary:Transnational Entrepreneurship (TE) is an increasingly important phenomenon, symptomatic for a globalised world with a large extent of migrants and interchanges between their countries of origin and residence. Our article deploys a unique data set which compares TE for two different national contexts and institutional settings: Chile and Germany. Using data from 2016 and 2017 Adult Populations Surveys (APS) of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), we relate the probability of being an opportunity-driven entrepreneur with the condition of being a transnational entrepreneur. Our findings suggest that varying institutional settings attract or form different types of TE. While Chile seems to attract mainly opportunity-driven TE, TE in Germany reveals strong evidence of necessity-driven TE. In addition, we explore different traits on the probability of being involved in TE based on the presumption that transnational entrepreneurs show signs of higher opportunity recognition and network embeddedness and can thereby be a major driver of entrepreneurial ecosystems as well as act as linkages between different national systems.
ISSN:1369-183X
1469-9451
DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2018.1559996