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JOURNAL OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 1574-1593Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13132-020-00684-8
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Turkish entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurial capital; Intellectual capital; Social capital; Family capital; Financial capital; Psychological capital; The United States
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This article explores the entrepreneurial activities of immigrant entrepreneurs with Turkish roots in the US ceramic and marble industry, revealing reasons for migration, key motivators for entrepreneurship, and challenges faced by Turkish immigrant entrepreneurs.
The ever-changing structural and relational facets of immigrant entrepreneurial activities have created missing dominos in the literature and policy development in the USA. This article explores entrepreneurial activities among immigrant entrepreneurs with Turkish roots in the US ceramic and marble industry. R package for qualitative data analysis (RQDA) was used to analyze interview data obtained through a snowball sampling technique. Results reveal that (1) Turkish entrepreneurs migrated to the USA for several reasons; (2) factors such as entrepreneurial capital, intellectual capital, social capital, family capital, and financial capital emerge as key motivators for entrepreneurial activities; and (3) characteristics (i.e., personal attributes, psychological traits, and capital) and challenges faced by Turkish immigrant entrepreneurs are unveiled. In sum, this paper provides an integrative insight on important resources for Turkish immigrant entrepreneurs.
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