Immigrant entrepreneurship financing and family business in Nigeria

Entrepreneurship Financing and Nation Building in Nigeria: Evidence from Agricultural Small and Medium Scale Enterprises

An attempt has been made in this study to examine the relationship between entrepreneurship financing from the perspective of agricultural small and medium scale enterprises and nation building in Nigeria from 1990 to 2017. Data were collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin with the application of Autoregressive Distributed Lagged and Bounds test to address the objective ...

Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

Migration Networks and Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Migration network theory addresses the cumulative causation of migration as a result of reduced social, economic, and emotional costs of migration pursuant to the formation of migration networks. Because it introduces a sociological dimension, network theory improves the mechanical and economistic “push and pull” conceptions that prevailed earlier, including world systems versions thereof. None...

Why Family Matters: The Impact of Family Resources on Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Exit from Entrepreneurship

We integrate insights from the social embeddedness perspective with research on immigrant entrepreneurship to theorize on how family resources influence exit from entrepreneurship among previously unemployed immigrant entrepreneurs. Results from a cohort study of immigrant entrepreneurs in Sweden reveal that family resources are important for immigrants to integrate economically into a country....

Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network

We study entrepreneurs’ start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan terms. We show that there are winners and losers as a result of the network even among its members. Becau...