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Dilek Zamantili Nayir
Marmara University
Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences
Dep. of Bus. Administration in German language
34810 Anadoluhisari Istanbul TURKEY
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Dear listserv members,
We are pleased to announce a Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of
International Business Review.
The formal call is attached to this email as well as pasted
below. Please email either co-editor if you have any questions. Have a
wonderful semester, and we look very much forward to your papers!
Dr. Dilek Zamantili Nayir
Marmara University
Istanbul Turkey
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW - SPECIAL ISSUE
International Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Approaches and strategies of
successful immigrant entrepreneurs crossing national boundaries
National economies opened to the world and became more integrated in the
last 50 years. As also travel became easier and more affordable, people with
different national backgrounds left their homes and went into industrialized
countries as refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants (Cross 1992,
Esping-Andersen 1993; Massey and Denton 1993). From the Chinese in greater
Asia and Canada, to the Turks in Germany, from the Algerians in France to
the Indians in Africa and New Zealand, the developed world became the final
destination of populations with different socio-cultural or ethnic origins,
which turned them into multi-cultural societies (Gorter et al. 1998).
Over the years, a significant shift in the work orientation towards
self-employment took place among these ethnic groups (Delft et al. 2000,
Masurel et al. 2002, Min 1987, Waldinger et al. 1990, Ward and Jenkins 1984;
Kobrin and Speare, 1983; Lewandowski, 1980). Whereas most of them had been
employed as laborers in earlier years, they started to be active as
“ethnic entrepreneurs”. Instead of queuing for jobs with the
locals, they created work opportunities for themselves and even became
employers of other people as well.
Ethnic entrepreneurs are people who start their own business often through
an individual connection with former immigrants (Butler and Green, 1997)
through a set of regular patterns of interaction with them (Waldinger et
al., 1990). Ethnic entrepreneurs significantly influence national economies.
According to the Ethnic Minority Business Forum (2003) for example, there
are 66.000 ethnic minority owned businesses in London today, as well as
around 93.000 self employed people from ethnic minority communities. These
minority businesses employ well over half a million people. Also in other
parts of the world, ethnic minorities have started to have a say in
business; the ethnic Chinese for example have created large multi-divisional
enterprises in the host societies of Southeast Asia. Ethnic businesses
today contribute to the economy by increasing economic and cultural
diversity, reducing unemployment among immigrants and raising living
standards in ethnic groups.
One of the important questions is which factors effect migrants’
decisions to engage in entrepreneurial activities. The decision has been
explained with either the Structural or the Cultural approach (Mavratsas,
1997). Whereas the Structural approach argues that the situation in the host
country is a prime cause for migrants engagement in entrepreneurial
activities (Cole, 1959), the Culturalist approach sees values and cultural
elements as the essential determinants of entrepreneurial activity. Studies
demonstrate, that these elements are similar in many aspects across
different minority groups. A comparative examination of entrepreneurship
among Maghrebian and Pakistani businesses for example shows, that
motivation, markets and the importance of family labour are equally
important. Studies also show that networks are determining factors in
entrepreneurship success, as network connections help ethnic entrepreneurs
raise money, invent technology, locate materials, get training and hire
workers (Gabbay & Leenders, 1999).
Although studies on ethnic communities in business life have increased over
the last years, these studies have dominantly considered labour migration
and only limited attention has been given to entrepreneurial migration.
Whereas some works have dealt with this topic as well, most academic works
on ethnic entrepreneurship have told the stories of particular minority
groups in specific societies (e.g. Light and Bonachich, 1991; Silverman,
2001 Folk, 2007).
This special issue of International Business Review focuses on two gaps in
the extant literature on ethnic entrepreneurship: First, unlike previous
work, which tended to focus on one country or one region of the world, with
this special issue we aim to cover a global scope with chapters on America,
Europe, and Asia. It is our intention to provide a broad perspective on the
nature and scope of entrepreneurship within ethnic groups and bring new
insights and methods to the phenomenon of ethnic entrepreneurs. Second,
most work until now has focused on the marketing related dimensions of the
phenomenon. This special issue aims to provide a management related
understanding of how international firms are organized to achieve their
strategic goals. Combining essays, case studies and empirical studies from
around the globe, we want to give a deeper understanding of the
characteristics, motivation and orientation of ethnic entrepreneurs as well
as their value systems, preferences, goals and management styles. It is our
aim to understand the success stories of ethnic entrepreneurs in different
environments putting special emphasis on the cultural, social and
institutional resources that made these successes possible.
Guest Editors:
Prof. Dr. Tamer Çavuşgil (Georgia State University/USA)
Dr. Dilek Zamantili Nayir (Marmara University/Turkey)
Prof. Dr. Gerd-Michael Hellstern (University of Kassel/Germany)
Prof. Dr. Tevfik Dalgic (University of Texas at Dallas/USA)
Prof. Erin Cavusgil (University of Michigan Flint/USA)
Subject Coverage
Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- Global trends in ethnic business
- The role of ethnic entrepreneurship in shaping the structure of modern
economies
- The role of culture and cross cultural communication in ethnic businesses
- Strategy formulation in ethnic businesses
- The role of business-government relations
- The role of trust and cultural values
- Gender and generation differences
- Economic, political and social network structures in ethnic
entrepreneurship
- Organizational culture in ethnic enterprises
We are looking to include both conceptual and empirical papers as well as
case studies in this special issue. Papers with a multi-country, comparative
perspective will be preferred.
Schedule
September 30, 2009 Submission of manuscripts
January 15, 2010 Reviewer comments to authors
April 30, 2010 Submission of final articles
August 30, 2010 Final articles to the publisher
Notes for Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently
under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed
through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other
relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author
Guidelines page at
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/133/authorinstr
uctions
Editors and Notes
Please send your submission in the form of an MS Word file attached to an
e-mail to both:
Prof. Tamer Çavuşgil
The Institute of International Business - J. Mack Robinson College of
Business, Georgia State University,
35 Broad Street, Suite 1438, Atlanta Georgia 30303 USA
stcavusgil@gsu.edu
and
Dr. Dilek Zamantili Nayir
Marmara University - Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences
Department of Business Administration in German language
81610 Anadoluhisari Istanbul Turkey
dznayir@marmara.edu.tr