Polish immigrants in Leicester: Forms of capital underpinning entrepreneurial activity.

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dc.contributor.authorVershinina, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorBarrett, Rowena
dc.contributor.authorMeyer, Michael
dc.contributor.otherMoguilnaia, Natalia A.
dc.date.accessioned2010-11-01T11:58:49Z
dc.date.available2010-11-01T11:58:49Z
dc.date.issued2009-08
dc.description.abstractIn 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 and economic capitals as the lens through which to explore their pathways to entrepreneurship. This allows us to look beyond studies that generally focus on social capital embodied in family and ethnic networks. By incorporating a mixed embeddedness approach (Kloostermans, Van Leun and Rath, 1999), we identify three groups – traditional, opportunity and opportunist entrepreneurs - based on when they immigrated and the implications of the differing origins and amounts of capital they can access and convert into entrepreneurial activity. The contribution of this paper is to go beyond explaining ethnic entrepreneurship in terms of social capital arising from ethnic group membership and to show the existence of intra-ethnic variation in the UK Polish entrepreneurial community.en
dc.identifier.citationVershinina, N, Barrett, R. and Meyer, M. (2009) Polish immigrants in Leicester: Forms of capital underpinning entrepreneurial activity. Leicester Business School Occasional Paper Series, No 86.en
dc.identifier.isbn9781857214017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/4355
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherThe Leicester Business School Occasional Papersen
dc.subjectPolish entrepreneurshipen
dc.subjectethnic minority entrepreneurshipen
dc.subjectforms of capitalen
dc.titlePolish immigrants in Leicester: Forms of capital underpinning entrepreneurial activity.en
dc.typeWorking Paperen

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