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dc.contributor.authorSchnetzinger, Heidi
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T16:12:07Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T16:12:07Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2014-02-16T23:54:45Z
dc.identifier.issn17506204
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/JEC-03-2013-0009
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/56827
dc.description.abstractPurpose - The aim is to identify the potential for establishing successful businesses operations or institutions emanating from returnees' mixed embeddedness in post-conflict Cambodia. Design/methodology/approach - This explorative study of the two largest groups of returnees, the Cambodian French and the Cambodian Americans, compares these two categories through a review of literature on Cambodians in the USA and France and primary fieldwork data obtained through open interviews with Cambodian returnees in Cambodia. Findings - Cambodian French and Cambodian American returnees show different entrepreneurial dispositions and hence play different roles in the Cambodian economy. While the all-embracing welfare system in France incapacitated both the self-sufficiency and community building among Cambodian diaspora, the market-driven model of social services in the USA induced the Cambodian diaspora with a commercial orientation. While both categories initiate institutional and business ventures, their contribution to social change in Cambodia is modest. Among the returnee entrepreneurs, the Chinese Cambodians seem to be most successful in their business ventures irrespective of their diasporic background. Originality/value - The emerging scholarly interest in "immigrant transnationalism" tends to focus in particular on identity issues. Contrastingly, this article focuses on economic aspects of "immigrant transnationalism" in terms of its "mixed embeddedness" in both home and host country economies.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherEmerald Group Publishing
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom383
dc.relation.ispartofpageto396
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Enterprising Communities. People and Places in the Global Economy
dc.relation.ispartofvolume7
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInternational Business
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommerce, Management, Tourism and Services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode150308
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode15
dc.titleCambodian returnees’ entrepreneurial ventures: the opportunities and constraints of mixed embeddedness
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Department of International Business and Asian Studies
gro.date.issued2013
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorSchnetzinger, Heidi


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