Research Handbook on Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurship

Edited by Rolf Sternberg, Professor of Economic Geography, Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, Maria Elo, Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; Professor, BRIIB Institute, Shanghai University, China; Adjunct Professor, Åbo Akademi University, Finland; Senior Research Fellow, University of Turku, Finland; Migration Fellow, the Migration Institute of Finland, Finland, Jonathan Levie, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, University of Galway, Ireland and José Ernesto Amorós, Professor of Entrepreneurship, EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico and Adjunct Visiting Professor, School of Business and Economics, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile

• Contents:Preface x1 Introduction: relevance of transnational diasporaentrepreneurship and the motivation and structure of theResearch Handbook 1Rolf Sternberg, José Ernesto Amorós, Maria Elo and Jonathan LeviePART I CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW OF TDE2 Transnational diaspora entrepreneurship as a sub-field ofinternational entrepreneurship: observations and conceptual remarks 18Maria Elo and Léo-Paul Dana3 Quantitative measurement of a rare event: transnationaldiaspora entrepreneurship data through GEM methodology 37Johannes von BlohPART II COUNTRY CASE STUDIES4 Germany: the relevance, extent and structure of transnationaldiaspora entrepreneurship 56Rolf Sternberg5 Bulgaria: the relevance and impact of transnational diaspora intechnology-driven entrepreneurship 86Veneta Andonova, Stela Gavrilova, Jonathan Pérez, Jana Schmutzlerand Mira Krusteff6 Transnational diaspora entrepreneurship (TDE): the case of Puerto Rico 109Marinés Aponte, Marta Álvarez and Manuel Lobato7 Start-up nation Israel: transnational entrepreneurs, born globalsand cross-border connections of the Israeli high-tech industry 128Susann Schäfer and Sebastian HennPART III MIGRATION CORRIDORS AND THEIR EFFECT ONTHE HOME AND DESTINATION COUNTRIES8 How refugee entrepreneurs improvise: bricolage in an emergingeconomy 146Dilek Zamantili Nayir, Mehmet Eryilmaz and Ali Ayci9 The socio-economic impact of transnational diasporaentrepreneurship: an investigation of UK-based AfricanCaribbean entrepreneurial diaspora on the Caribbean 176Lorna Jones, Indianna D. Minto-Coy and Maria Elo10 African transnational diaspora entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom 207Juliana Siwale, Ursula F. Ott and Olu Aluko11 Riding the wave: resilient Polish migrant entrepreneursnavigating Brexit and COVID-19 in the UK 219Alexandra David, Judith Terstriep and Przemysław Zbierowski12 Looking for the American dream? An intercultural managementperspective on the business diaspora in the USA–Mexico border 245Óscar Javier Montiel Méndez and Araceli Almaraz Alvarado13 Typology of the Mexican entrepreneurial return migrant in theMexico–United States migration corridor 266Blanca Josefina García-Hernández and Lizbeth Alicia González-Tamayo14 Chinese transnational diaspora entrepreneurship and its impacton China’s economic development and the pathways leading toEurope: viewpoints from Hungary to Germany 294He Shuquan, Maria Elo and David BreitenbachPART IV POLICY IMPLICATIONS15 Canada: national policies to support transnational diasporaentrepreneurship 315Horatio M. Morgan16 Policy approaches and transnational diaspora entrepreneurship in China 341Maria Elo, Erez Katz Volovelsky and Yi Wang17 Transnational diaspora entrepreneurship: empirical findings,policy lessons and future research opportunities 364Rolf Sternberg, Jonathan Levie, Maria Elo, José Ernesto Amorós andGiacomo SolanoIndex

‘This Handbook mirrors the transnational innovation phenomenon that it studies: The tome shares data and perspectives crafted by scholars from around the world, whose ideas have been honed through transnational experience and interaction, resulting in novel and impactful outcomes. The compilation of this foundational knowledge in one place is game-changing.’