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Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship
Umeå University, University of Gothenburg.
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8528-1099
University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus.
2023 (English)In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, ISSN 1355-2554, E-ISSN 1758-6534Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

PurposeThis paper aims to understand how immigrant entrepreneurs use digital opportunities to overcome the liability of newness and foreignness and how an immigrant's ethnicity can be digitally performed as an asset in business.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopts an inductive multiple case study approach using social media content. The data consist of over 3,500 posts, images and screenshots from Facebook, Instagram and the webpages of seven successful Vietnamese restaurants in Sweden. Grounded content analysis was conducted using NVivo.FindingsThe findings suggest that digitalising ethnic artifacts can mediate and facilitate three digital performances that together can turn ethnicity from a liability to an asset: (i) preserving performance through digital ethnicising, (ii) embracing performance through digital generativitising and (iii) appropriating performance through digital fusionising. The results support the introduction of a conceptual framework depicting the interwoven duality of horizontal and vertical boundary blurring, in which the former takes place between the offline and online spaces of immigrant businesses, and the latter occurs between the home and host country attachment of the immigrant businesses.Originality/valueThis study responds to calls for understanding how immigrant entrepreneurs can overcome the liability of foreignness. It offers a fresh look at ethnicity, which has been seen in a negative light in the field of immigrant entrepreneurship. This study illuminates that ethnicity can be used as a resource in immigrant entrepreneurship, specifically through the use of digital artifacts and digital platforms.

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2023.
Keywords [en]
Immigrant entrepreneurship, Digitalisation, Social media, Digital ethnic performance, Boundary blurring, Digital ethnicity affordances
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Business Administration International Migration and Ethnic Relations
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Human Geography
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-93316DOI: 10.1108/IJEBR-02-2022-0207ISI: 000916449800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85147001998OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-93316DiVA, id: diva2:1735544
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Broman Foundation for Research and Entrepreneurship, GU 2019/809 and E 2018/181Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2016-07205Available from: 2023-02-09 Created: 2023-02-09 Last updated: 2023-02-23Bibliographically approved

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