Diaspora Business Model Innovation
This paper explores how diasporans achieve business model innovatin by using their unique resources. The hypothesis underlying the paper is that the unique backgrounds and resources of the diaspora businesses, due to diffrent sources of informatin and experiences as well as multile networks, contrib...
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| description | This paper explores how diasporans achieve business model innovatin by using their unique resources. The hypothesis underlying the paper is that the unique backgrounds and resources of the diaspora businesses, due to diffrent sources of informatin and experiences as well as multile networks, contributes to business model innovatin in a distictie manner. We investiate the English school market in the Philippines which is established by East Asian diaspora who innovate a business model of conventinal English schools. Two case studies were conducted with Japanese diaspora English schools. Their business is analyzed using a business model canvas (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010) and contrasted with the conventinal business model. The empirical cases show that diaspora businesses use knowledge about their country of origin and engage with country of residence and multile networks in diffrent locatins and constellatins to identiy unique opportunitis, leading to a business model innovatin. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a392d1c95302450081c7370efbe4b3c82023-12-02T00:29:39ZengCognitione Foundation for the Dissemination of Knowledge and ScienceJournal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation2299-73262015-01-01111295210.7341/20151113Diaspora Business Model InnovationAki Harima0Sivaram Vemuri1 University of Bremen, LEMEX Chair in Small Business & Entrepreneurship Charles Darwin University This paper explores how diasporans achieve business model innovatin by using their unique resources. The hypothesis underlying the paper is that the unique backgrounds and resources of the diaspora businesses, due to diffrent sources of informatin and experiences as well as multile networks, contributes to business model innovatin in a distictie manner. We investiate the English school market in the Philippines which is established by East Asian diaspora who innovate a business model of conventinal English schools. Two case studies were conducted with Japanese diaspora English schools. Their business is analyzed using a business model canvas (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010) and contrasted with the conventinal business model. The empirical cases show that diaspora businesses use knowledge about their country of origin and engage with country of residence and multile networks in diffrent locatins and constellatins to identiy unique opportunitis, leading to a business model innovatin. http://jemi.edu.pl/uploadedFiles/file/all-issues/vol11/issue1/JEMI_Vol11_Issue1_2015_Article3.pdf business model canvaseast Asian diasporatransnational entrepreneurshipopportunity recognitionmixed embeddedness |
| spellingShingle | Aki Harima Sivaram Vemuri Diaspora Business Model Innovation Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation business model canvas east Asian diaspora transnational entrepreneurship opportunity recognition mixed embeddedness |
| title | Diaspora Business Model Innovation |
| title_full | Diaspora Business Model Innovation |
| title_fullStr | Diaspora Business Model Innovation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diaspora Business Model Innovation |
| title_short | Diaspora Business Model Innovation |
| title_sort | diaspora business model innovation |
| topic | business model canvas east Asian diaspora transnational entrepreneurship opportunity recognition mixed embeddedness |
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