Abstract
Migrant entrepreneurship represents a topic of a high societal and academic significance. For a host country, immigrant entrepreneurs’ endeavours are, in many cases, an under-utilized lever for local and regional economic revival. Based on a complex field research carried out between July 2017 and December 2018, the present paper approaches immigrant entrepreneurship in Romania, with a particular focus on Middle Eastern immigrant entrepreneurs. Our multi-method qualitative field research – consisting of semi-structured interviews, observations and informal discussions – envisaged 97 immigrant businesses, targeting the analysis of the phenomenon from different perspectives: economic, social, cultural, political, and institutional. Aiming to draw best practices from the investigated Middle Eastern immigrant entrepreneurs’ experiences, the research results outlined in this paper emphasize both descriptive and practical features. Migration-related particularities, entrepreneurs’ profile, business obstacles, business practices, or perspectives on and comparisons of the Romanian business environment with the one in the origin country represent just few examples of aspects thoroughly approached in the paper.
Highlights
Migrant entrepreneurship represents a topic of a high societal and academic significance
Referring to immigrants starting and developing businesses in the host country (Basu, 2006), immigrant entrepreneurship is the focus of an increasing number of scientific studies
Considering the case of Romania, the country investigated in this paper, research in the area of immigrant entrepreneurship is still in an incipient stage
Summary
Migrant entrepreneurship represents a topic of a high societal and academic significance. Romania is highly acknowledged – by both scholars and practitioners – as an important provider of immigrants, especially for the European Union (EU) members, with a wellrepresented diaspora (Grosu and Constantin, 2013; Grosu and Dinu, 2016; Davidescu et al, 2017) This represents an attractive destination country for immigrant population, especially for non-EU citizens, out of which many take the entrepreneurial path in the Romanian business environment. Even if the existing body of works on immigrant entrepreneurship is very vast and provides various outcomes/ approaches on diverse regions and countries from all over the world, research on this topic in Romania is still in an incipient stage
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