Exploring the organizing and strategic factors of diasporic transnational entrepreneurs in Canada: An empirical study
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Exploring the organizing and strategic factors of diasporic transnational entrepreneurs in Canada: An empirical study Jean-Marie Nkongolo-Bakenda 1
& Elie
V. Chrysostome 2
# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract This paper examines opportunity identification and strategies as well as organizational practices used by diasporic transnational entrepreneurs residing in Canada. The findings indicate that the ability to identify products/services in one context and adapt them to fulfill needs in another context and a choice of appropriate competitive strategies are paramount to success. However, differentiation strategies seem preferred more often than low cost leadership strategies. Learning and creativity are the best means to identify and take advantage of opportunities. Although family and friends play an important role in the identification of opportunities, their importance decreases once a firm is created. Resumé Cet article examine l'identification des opportunités, les stratégies et les pratiques organisationnelles utilisées par les entrepreneurs diasporiques transnationaux résidant au Canada. Les résultats indiquent que la capacité d'identifier des produits / services dans un contexte et de les adapter pour répondre aux besoins dans un autre contexte et un choix de stratégies concurretielles appropriées sont primordiales au succès. Les stratégies de différenciation semblent plus souvent préférées aux stratégies de coûts bas. L'apprentissage et la créativité sont les meilleurs moyens d'identifier et de saisir les opportunités. Bien que la famille et les amis jouent un rôle important dans l'identification des opportunités, leur importance diminue une fois qu'une entreprise est créée Keywords Diaspora . Entrepreneurship . Internationalization . Strategies . Transnational .
Organizational processes
* Jean-Marie Nkongolo-Bakenda [email protected] Elie V. Chrysostome [email protected]
1
Faculty of Business Administration, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2
School of Business and Economics, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY, USA
Nkongolo-Bakenda J.-M., Chrysostome E.V.
Summary higlights Contributions of the paper: This study highlights how diasporic transnational entrepreneurs (DTEs) identify opportunities between home countries and Canada and the strategies and organizational practices that they use. Research Questions/Purpose/ Literature Gap: The majority of studies on DTEs are casebased, and only a few have examined the determinants of opportunity identification, business organization, and strategic behavior of the entrepreneur embedded in home and host environments. This paper intends to answer three research questions: (1) What are the factors leading to the identification of opportunities for DTE businesses? (2) What are the organizational practices and strategies used by DTEs to be successful? and (3) What are the determinants of these strategies and related organizational practices? Methods: The study i
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