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Special Issue of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Transnational Entrepreneurship and Global Reach
Editors
Israel Drori
College of Management, Israel
droris@post.tau.ac.il
Benson Honig
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
bhonig@wlu.ca
Mike Wright
University of Nottingham, UK.
Mike.Wright@nottingham.ac.uk
The concept of transnational entrepreneurship (TE) as a distinct attribute of globalization has attracted considerable attention in social science disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, economics and economic geography and regional planning. Transnational entrepreneurs are individuals that migrate from one country to another, concurrently maintaining business-related linkages with their countries of origin and currently adopted countries and communities. By traveling both physically and virtually, transnational entrepreneurs engage simultaneously in two or more socially embedded environments, allowing them to maintain critical global relations that enhance their ability to creatively and efficiently maximize their resource base. TE’s promote international trade by taking advantage of globalization and the entrepreneurs’ cosmopolitan way of life, enabling a more timely acquisition of resources required for operating cross-national businesses.
The growing impact of transnational entrepreneurship can be mainly attributed to the changing nature of international migration and diasporas, and to the complex nature of international business activities.
Understanding how transnational entrepreneurs translate, innovate, and modify structures, simultaneously operating in two distinctive cultural paradigms, remains a challenge for the field of entrepreneurship.
The conceptual and theoretical study of TE should be enriched by perspectives which integrate institutional norms with individual strategies and actions. Such study will provide insights into how transnational entrepreneurs balance the tensions between home and host country, and the demands related to social objectives over economic ones. Thus, both agency and practice appear to be particularly important when examining the process of seeking and exploiting business opportunities within dual social structures.
This special issue is aimed at exploring transnational entrepreneurship from a wide variety of disciplinary, scholarly and conceptual perspectives. We are seeking novel, theoretical and empirical papers that provide innovative and insightful contributions to the ways transnational entrepreneurs operate in their institutional and social structures. We particularly encourage the submission of papers that present new empirical contexts as well as theoretical papers which hold the promise of advancing empirical research. We welcome a variety of topics and perspectives. General subjects of interests include (but are certainly not limited to) the following:
A. Conceptual and definitional issues
• Demarcation of the empirical scope and analytical boundaries of transnational entrepreneurship (TE) research.
• Addressing the epistemological challenges reflected in TE multiple relationships and different cultural and institutional environments.
• Integrating micro-meso and macro- levels of analysis in TE research.
• Reviewing analytical frameworks (e.g practice, institutional, ecological , network, social capital or resource base) which assist in understanding the dynamic nature of TE as it flows through the intersection of individual and collective meanings, perceptions, experiences and practices.
B. Transnational entrepreneurship processes and dynamics
• What are the different strategies of action that transnational entrepreneurs undertake?
• In what ways might the varied institutional setting at either home or destination influence the prospects of success for transnational entrepreneurs, and why?
• What are the cultural frames of reference, symbolic orders and schemas of meaning that transnational entrepreneurs consider when operating in dual settings?
• What kinds of businesses opportunities are most amenable for transnational entrepreneurship, and what are the best ways of exploiting them?
• Why do transnational entrepreneurs fail? How prevalent is exit from one of the environments?
• How does the legal and regulatory regime impact transnational entrepreneurs?
• What is the role of social and industry networks for transnational entrepreneurship, and how and why are they formed and structured?
• What is the life-cycle of the transnational enterprise and how is it structured?
• How sustainable are the dual social structures? Are they transitional arrangements between one environment and another?
• What are the political forces behind the ability to secure resources and to compete in dual environments?
• How do transnational entrepreneurs generate legitimacy from their dual environments?
• How do transnational entrepreneurs use social capital and knowledge for the purpose of setting and operating a business?
• What prior connections do TEs have with the countries to which they migrate (e.g. returnee entrepreneurs) and how does this influence their business behavior?
Submissions are to be prepared in a form consistent with ET&P's style guide and submitted to
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/etp by March 31, 2008 (be sure to indicate that it is for the special issue, transnational entrepreneurship). Publication date will be September 2009.
If you have any questions on the special issue please feel free to contact any of the editors of the special issue:
israeld@colman.ac.il;
bhonig@wlu.ca;
mike.wright@nottingham.ac.uk.
Benson Honig Ph.D.
Betty and Peter Sims Professor of Entrepreneurship,
Director, NeXt
Wilfrid Laurier School of Business and Economics
Waterloo Ontario Canada N2L3C5
Tel: 519-884-0710 ext.2909
fax: 519-884-0201
Cell: 905-518-1716
email:
bhonig@wlu.ca
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