Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Diversity

Edited by Paul Lassalle, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde, UK and Sakura Yamamura, Professor of Digital Methods in Human Geography, Department of Geography, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

‘Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Diversity edited by Paul Lassalle and Sakura Yamamura is an informed and refreshing discussion of contemporary issues and considerations facing the practice of entrepreneurship in contemporary society. It offers a treasure trove of discussion and insights into important entrepreneurial issues, trends and realities including the multifaceted nature of diversity, intersectionality, migrant and displaced entrepreneurs and female founders. It provides a collection of informed evidence and debate of these and other critical issues and will prove, I am sure, to be a landmark publication within the field.’

• Contents1 Introduction to multi-facets of diversity in entrepreneurship 1Paul Lassalle and Sakura YamamuraPART I THE DIVERSITY OF ENTREPRENEURSIntroduction to Part I: “The Diversity of Entrepreneurs”2 Gender, diversity, and entrepreneurship: insights from feministtheories 31Natalia Vershinina3 The determinants of refugee entrepreneurship: a multi-sitedcross-cultural study 46Matthias Menter, Silke Uebelmesser and Sandra van der Hoek4 The dilemmas of displacement of Syrian women refugeeentrepreneurs 63Samaneh Khademi, Caroline Essers and Haya Al-Dajani5 Refugee women becoming entrepreneurs: a translocationalintersectional perspective 88Ketch Adeeko6 The perpetuation of precarity in homeless/ness entrepreneurship 108Jonas Felder and Sakura Yamamura7 Intersectional entrepreneurship and intersectionality inentrepreneurship: a multi-scalar embeddedness perspective 129Sakura Yamamura and Paul LassallePART II THE DIVERSITY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONTEXTIntroduction to Part II: “The Diversity of Entrepreneurship Context”8 Proactivity and reactivity of immigrant entrepreneurs during theCOVID-19 pandemic in Poland 153Jan Brzozowski, Inna Voznyuk and Hanna Smaliichuk9 Informal cross-border traders and the promise of the AfricanContinental Free Trade Agreement 175Louis Koen and Letlhokwa George Mpedi10 Contextualising diversity: a narrative review of the Nordicresearch on migrant women’s entrepreneurship 187Yasemin Kontkanen and Huriye Yeröz11 Strategies of female entrepreneurs in Oman: coping withsociocultural challenges 203Amjaad Al Hinai and Carmella Pfaffenbach12 Bounded entrepreneurship: gender, space, and marginalisation inEgypt 221Christine Samy and Katerina Nicolopoulou13 Transnational migrant entrepreneurship, embeddedness andinterconnectedness 243Paul Lassalle and Sakura YamamuraPART III THE DIVERSITY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL STRATEGYAND PRACTICEIntroduction to Part III: “The Diversity of Entrepreneurial Strategy andPractice”14 The making of alternative business support for migrant andrefugee entrepreneurs in the UK: filling the void of formalsupport 261Maria Villares-Varela and Carolynn Low15 Start-up financing and owner-manager characteristics: anexplanatory study of lender/investor decisions and contextualreflections 277Jonathan M. Scott, Javed G. Hussain, Spinder Dhaliwal,Graham Leask and David Irwin16 Diversity in immigrant entrepreneurial strategies in transnationalcontexts 298Stephen Syrett, Jude Kenechi Onyima and Leandro Sepulveda17 Exploring diversity of female digital entrepreneurship: towardsresilience in the Caribbean context 311Beverly Best