Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/248545 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Publisher: 
Department of Economics and Management, University of Parma, Parma
Abstract: 
The article contributes to the current debate on the relationship between migration and entrepreneurship, highlighting the evolution of processes and practices, from the traditional monoethnic firm towards new models, we defined as "plurinational". It refers precisely to the cases, widespread in the evolving cosmopolitan society, where both entrepreneurs and workers belong to different nationalities. The article outlines the findings of a qualitative research study, based on interviews with a series of entrepreneurs of plurinational firms in Italy. Firstly, we found that plurinational firms originate from "weak ties" (through acquaintances and previous work experiences) rather than "strong ties" (through family and co-ethnic community networks). Secondly, far for being univocal models, we found a variety of plurinational entrepreneurships which derives from different scales of priority assigned by ownership or management to plurinationalism as "opportunity" or plurinationalism as "value".
Subjects: 
immigrant entrepreneurship
plurinationalism
migration
break-out strategies
organizational diversity
Italy
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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