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Pushed to the Edge: Investigation into Ukrainian Construction Workers Operating in London
(Work, Employment and Society Conference, Migration Track, 2013-09-03)
In this article the nature of self-employment of illegal and legal Ukrainian migrants operating in the construction sector in UK is examined. The key aim of this article is to contribute to the discussion on the unexpected ...
Management
(Cengage Learning, 2010)
The market-leading textbook for principles of management courses reaches a new level with Richard L. Daft being joined by Martyn Kendrick and Natalia Vershinina (both Leicester Business School) to provide an unparalleled ...
Polish immigrants in Leicester: Forms of capital underpinning entrepreneurial activity.
(The Leicester Business School Occasional Papers, 2009-08)
In this paper we report a study of 10 Polish immigrant entrepreneurs operating in
Leicester, UK. Like Ram, Theodorakopoulos and Jones (2008) we take a forms-ofcapital
approach but use Bourdieu’s (1983) social, cultural ...
Russian Entrepreneurs in London : Are they Flying Business Class?
(British Academy of Management Conference, 2013-09-10)
This paper’s objective is to examine transnational nature of new entrepreneurial community through the “forms of capital” framework (Ram et al, 2008, Vershinina, et.al. 2011). This study examines the stories of fourteen ...
Are regulatory interventions seen as an obstacle or an enabler to SME performance and growth in transition economies: a study of gendered perceptions?
(ISBE, 2014-12-05)
Objectives
The aim of this paper is to empirically test the influence of the perceived regulatory burden in the context of postcommunist economies on SME performance and growth from a gender perspective.
Prior Work
The ...
SME financing and credibility: does entrepreneur’s gender matter?
(Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 2013-11-11)
Objectives: The aim of this paper is to explore the notion of entrepreneur credibility, a sense of belief or trust in the individual’s ability to fulfill the entrepreneurial role and create and sustain a viable venture, ...
Process and Dynamics of self-employment of legal and illegal Ukrainian immigrants in London
(33rd ISBE Conference London, 2010-04-03)
The paper highlights the process and dynamics of employment of Ukrainian legal and illegal immigrants and barriers for business entry and their sectoral distribution. The study focussed on London examines skills, aspirations ...
Building the base for cross national comparisons of ethnic entrepreneurship: Understanding Polish entrepreneurs in Western Australia
(34th ISBE Conference Sheffield, 2011-11-09)
The paper accounts for the nature of Polish entrepreneurial activity in Western Australia. First, it examines it through the deployment of Bourdieu’s ‘forms of capital’ model (1983) used in explaining the entrepreneurial ...
Flying Business Class: A Case of Russian Entrepreneurs in London
(35th ISBE Conference Dublin, 2012-11-07)
This paper’s objectives are to examine a new community, rarely explored in the literature in the context of the broader entrepreneurship literature. Moreover, the attempt is made to engage in theoretical development by ...
Forms of capital, intra-ethnic variation and Polish entrepreneurs in Leicester.
(Work, Employment and Society, 2011-03)
A study of 10 Polish entrepreneurs operating in Leicester, UK is reported in this article. The
concepts of social, cultural and economic capital are used as the lens through which to explore
the way the capital they ...
