TY - JOUR

T1 - Transnational entrepreneurs

T2 - opportunity or necessity driven? Empirical evidence from two dynamic economies from Latin America and Europe

AU - von Bloh, Johannes

AU - Mandakovic, Vesna

AU - Apablaza, Mauricio

AU - Amorós, José Ernesto

AU - Sternberg, Rolf

PY - 2020/7/26

Y1 - 2020/7/26

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Chile

KW - entrepreneurial ecosystem

KW - Germany

KW - global entrepreneurship monitor

KW - institutions

KW - opportunity driven

KW - Transnational entrepreneurship

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061183045&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1559996

DO - 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1559996

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85061183045

VL - 46

SP - 2008

EP - 2026

JO - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

JF - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

SN - 1369-183X

IS - 10

ER -