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- Malki, Bryan
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The entrepreneurial financing of the immigrant entrepreneurs : An ambidexterity perspective
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The idea of this dissertation originates from the intriguing conflict in practical, political, and academic discourses surrounding immigrant entrepreneurship. This conflict comprises two simultaneously opposing narratives: one acknowledging the substantial barriers impeding immigrant entrepreneurs’ (IEs’) efforts to access finance, and another lauding their remarkable contributions to the economies of host countries. Inspired by this conflict, with a focus on financing, the interest of this dissertation centers on understanding the mechanisms IEs develop to access financing effectively amidst barriers and uncertainty. Accordingly, the dissertation’s primary purpose is to explore the underlying mechanisms shaping the IEs’ financing decisions and behavioral patterns when faced with barriers in host countries.To this end, the dissertation compiles three research papers, each addressing a pertinent question and offering distinct contributions. The first paper undertakes a systematic literature review of the field at the intersection between immigrant entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance. By means of SWOT analysis, the paper sharply defines and delimits the boundaries of the field of entrepreneurial financing for IEs. This definition facilitates the identification of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats within the field and offers prospects for future development. The second paper introduces the concept of the ‘financial ambidexterity of IEs’ as their behavioral response to overcoming financing barriers and uncertainty. In this introduction, the paper proposes a theoretical mechanism underpinned by factors such as bicultural identity integration (BII), cultural intelligence (CQ), and financial literacy (FL) for achieving financially ambidextrous behavior. Lastly, drawing on interviews with Arabic-speaking IEs in Sweden, the third paper presents a refined mechanism of three stages. This mechanism is driven by the interplay between situational and dispositional factors, shaping the financing choices of IEs in response to uncertainty.In essence, the dissertation contributes to the literature on immigrant entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance, and resource dependence theory. In particular, it enriches immigrant entrepreneurship literature by resetting the field of entrepreneurial financing of IEs. Moreover, it introduces the ‘financial ambidexterity of IEs’ as a mechanism to tackle financing barriers. Furthermore, it offers comprehensive insights into IEsʼ financing from situational and dispositional perspectives. Lastly, it shifts the examination of the IEsʼ financing pursuits from a static to a dynamic and interactive landscape. Second, the dissertation adds to the entrepreneurial finance literature by exploring the particular and complex case of IEs’ financing. Third, it advances the resource dependence theory by introducing financial ambidexterity as a novel strategy to mitigate uncertainty and power dynamics at the individual level. Finally, the dissertation offers several practical implications for practice and policy, acknowledges its limitations, and suggests trajectories for future research.
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- Kamugisha, Samuel
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Strategies of New Firms in the Formative Years of a Developing Economy : The Case of Rwanda
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores how new firms navigate the regulatory environment of a developing economy in its formative stage to ensure their continued operations and survival. The study’s context is Rwanda which is a developing economy that is undergoing a process of reconstruction and transformation after devastation by the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.The study seeks to understand the strategies undertaken by new firms to navigate uncertain regulatory environment to ensure their continued operations and survival. The study identifies four strategies undertaken by new firms in response to pressures arising from the changes in the regulatory environment, namely maneuvering, foresight and proactiveness, changing paths and professionalizing.The findings highlight: (1) the unlocking and lock-in effects of the changes in regulatory environment on firms’ strategies, (2) a continuous integration of strategies in a trial-and-error approach to find a tradeoff between the strategies and the pressures arising from the regulatory environment, (3) a learning-by-doing approach which also indicates the strategies undertaken at each stage of development, and (4) a boomerang effect of some of the strategies on the firms’ continued operations and survival.The study extends our understanding of how new firms cope with uncertain institutional environments. The study’s findings and theorization elucidate critical dynamics between the specificities of changes in the regulatory environment, the strategies undertaken by new firms, and the firms’ continued operations and survival. The study will also help entrepreneurs and managers to devise tailored strategies in response to the challenges associated with the specificities of changes in the regulatory environment.
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