Refugee-owned small businesses: A typology for blended value creation

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2022
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Ranabahu, Nadeera
de Vries, Huibert
Basharati, Zhiyan
Abstract

While it is clear that refugee-owned small businesses generate economic value, what is less understood is small businesses’ role in blended value generation for ethnic/co-ethnic and local host communities. To explore this issue, we conducted interviews with 19 refugee business owners residing in New Zealand. Our findings concur with the extant literature that refugeeowned businesses generate economic, social, and cultural value in their adopted countries. However, these businesses can be differentiated by their value focus; that is, whether the business’ sole focus is economic or a nuanced blend, where economic value is complemented by strong social and cultural outcomes. In addition, these businesses’ blended value generation is concentrated in either ethnic/co-ethnic or to local host communities. We use the findings to construct a typology of value generated by refugee-owned businesses, based on two continuums: from economic value to blended value and from ethnic/co-ethnic focus to local host focus.

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Ranabahu N, de Vries H, Basharati Z (2022). Refugee-owned small businesses: A typology for blended value creation. International Migration.
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blended value, refugees, small businesses, stakeholders, refugee entrepreneurship
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ANZSRC fields of research
1601 Anthropology
1603 Demography
1608 Sociology
Fields of Research::35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3507 - Strategy, management and organisational behaviour::350704 - Entrepreneurship
Fields of Research::35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3507 - Strategy, management and organisational behaviour::350716 - Small business organisation and management
Fields of Research::44 - Human society::4410 - Sociology::441013 - Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
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