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Embeddedness
About: Embeddedness is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4773 publications have been published within this topic receiving 229721 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative case study of a business incubation model for refugee entrepreneurs in Germany is presented, where the authors identify key themes of a particular incubation process addressing the lack of embeddedness and barriers to refugees entrepreneurs in the host country.
Abstract: Purpose
Recent years have seen a wave of immigration in western countries. Entrepreneurship can foster refugees’ integration in the labour market. Hence, the authors observe an emergence of incubators with social purpose, addressing the key challenges of refugee entrepreneurs. The purpose of this paper is to look at the particularities and the impact of business incubation on entrepreneurial development and embeddedness of refugee entrepreneurs in the host country by applying the theoretical lens of mixed embeddedness theory.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper is based on a qualitative case study approach exploring one business incubation model for refugee entrepreneurs in Germany. For a multi-stakeholder perspective, the data were collected through a participatory focus group workshop and semi-structured interviews of refugee entrepreneurs and incubator stakeholders (e.g. incubator management, mentors and partners) contributing to the incubation. The data collection extends over the duration of five months of the incubation programme.
Findings
The empirical results emphasise the impact of the business incubator on refugee entrepreneur’s development and embeddedness. In this analysis, the authors identify key themes of a particular incubation process addressing the lack of embeddedness and barriers to refugee entrepreneurs in the host country. From the results, the authors elaborate a particular business incubation process framework of refugee entrepreneurs.
Originality/value
The findings enhance the understanding how business incubation contributes to the embeddedness of refugee entrepreneurs in their new hosting environment. Thus, this research contributes to the existing literature by extending incubation model frameworks towards refugee entrepreneurship and embeddedness perspectives. Furthermore, the study emphasises the role of the incubator in the context of the dimensions of the mixed embeddedness of the refugee entrepreneurs.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw upon insights from agency theory to examine the impact of managerial political ties on cost of debt and also explore whether corporate governance mediates this impact, and they find support for their direct and moderation hypotheses; political ties are associated with high interest rates and poor corporate governance.
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TL;DR: This paper explored whether elements of affective attachment associated with job embeddedness moderated relations of supervisors' interactional fairness with citizenship behavior and production deviance, and found that interactional fair exerts a stronger effect on these outcomes for employees embedded in their jobs than for their less attached coworkers.
61 citations
28 Mar 2014
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TL;DR: The importance of ownership as a conceptual category within global value chain (GVC) analysis through analyzing firm types based on their GVC linkage, market access, and ownership profile in Madagascar's apparel export industry is discussed in this paper.
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