Stoyan Stoyanov

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how foreign actors exploit their ethnic identity to gain skills and capabilities that enable them to operate in a new and strange environment and find that the entrepreneurs studied gain access to a diaspora network which enables them to develop essential business capabilities and integrate knowledge from both home and host country environments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the processes by which transnational entrepreneurs offset the liabilities of outsidership they face in their host country by their involvement in diaspora networks, and they show that sequencing of resource orchestration processes is important for the implementation of the entrepreneurs' strategy for using their embeddedness within the di-pora network for enhancing their competitiveness and can lead to groupings of activities that differ from the original version of the framework.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an ACRONYMS-based approach and study design of the field of observation in the context of the research of the authors' thesis, which is based on the theoretical background of the paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the integration of the social identity perspective with embeddedness research allows identifying the sequence of intergroup actions and the circulation of identity signals between groups, and an empirical study of 12 cases of Bulgarian migrants approaching diaspora networks in host countries provides a unique context for exploring the processes by which peripheral actors achieve embeddedness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight ten areas of such disadvantage amongst ethnic minority entrepreneurs in Scotland by examining statistics from three key entrepreneurship and small business databases (the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the Longitudinal Small Business Survey (LSBS), and the SME Finance Monitor (SMEFM)).