Business relations
A study of immigrant entrepreneurs outlines the importance of relational capital
Immigrant and entrepreneur: not a rarity but, rather, a reality that now has numerous important expressions in Italy. But, even in these cases, it is a matter of an enterprising culture transforming itself into an ability to get things done. With an added element: the relational capital that immigrants bring with them. Understanding the value of relational capital is, then, crucial to studying entrepreneurship as practised by foreign-born individuals.
Paola Paoloni (Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Rome), Federico De Andreis (Università Giustino Fortunato, Benevento) and Armando Papa (Università degli Studi di Teramo, Teramo) have undertaken research work that revolves around these concepts, recently published under the title Capital and Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Italy.
The study, as they explain, aims to investigate the quantitative dimension of foreign-owned entrepreneurship in Italy, identify the drivers of this phenomenon and examine the value of relational capital for the creation and development of immigrant-owned enterprises. In other words, this is a comprehensive investigation that first focuses on the salient features of what is happening, then looks at the elements that are contributing to the growth of immigrant entrepreneurship before analysing the contribution of particular relational capacities.
Indeed, the authors point precisely to this particular human approach as an “intangible asset in the development of foreign companies”. The idea behind the investigation is that relational capital enables start-ups to overcome their main difficulties: the organisational aspect and their financial capacity. Although constrained by the limited number of cases analysed, the research by Paoloni, De Andreis and Papa provides an initial description of an increasingly significant phenomenon in Italy and, above all, indicates how we can gain a better understanding of that capacity for human relations which, not only for immigrants, ultimately remains the real difference between success and failure. For businesses too.
Capital and immigrant entrepreneurship in Italy
Paola Paoloni (Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” Roma), Federico De Andreis (Università “Giustino Fortunato”, Benevento), Armando Papa (Università degli Studi di Teramo, Teramo)
International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, April 2024
A study of immigrant entrepreneurs outlines the importance of relational capital
Immigrant and entrepreneur: not a rarity but, rather, a reality that now has numerous important expressions in Italy. But, even in these cases, it is a matter of an enterprising culture transforming itself into an ability to get things done. With an added element: the relational capital that immigrants bring with them. Understanding the value of relational capital is, then, crucial to studying entrepreneurship as practised by foreign-born individuals.
Paola Paoloni (Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Rome), Federico De Andreis (Università Giustino Fortunato, Benevento) and Armando Papa (Università degli Studi di Teramo, Teramo) have undertaken research work that revolves around these concepts, recently published under the title Capital and Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Italy.
The study, as they explain, aims to investigate the quantitative dimension of foreign-owned entrepreneurship in Italy, identify the drivers of this phenomenon and examine the value of relational capital for the creation and development of immigrant-owned enterprises. In other words, this is a comprehensive investigation that first focuses on the salient features of what is happening, then looks at the elements that are contributing to the growth of immigrant entrepreneurship before analysing the contribution of particular relational capacities.
Indeed, the authors point precisely to this particular human approach as an “intangible asset in the development of foreign companies”. The idea behind the investigation is that relational capital enables start-ups to overcome their main difficulties: the organisational aspect and their financial capacity. Although constrained by the limited number of cases analysed, the research by Paoloni, De Andreis and Papa provides an initial description of an increasingly significant phenomenon in Italy and, above all, indicates how we can gain a better understanding of that capacity for human relations which, not only for immigrants, ultimately remains the real difference between success and failure. For businesses too.
Capital and immigrant entrepreneurship in Italy
Paola Paoloni (Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” Roma), Federico De Andreis (Università “Giustino Fortunato”, Benevento), Armando Papa (Università degli Studi di Teramo, Teramo)
International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, April 2024