'Breaking in' and 'breaking out': A Weberian approach to entrepreneurial opportunities

By E. Engelen. 2001

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. D. Ley
2. R. Kloosterman
3. E. Engelen

In Sociology and Political Science

1. D. Ley
2. R. Kloosterman
3. E. Engelen

Citations in the corpus

• Matching opportunities with resources: A framework for analysing (migrant) entrepreneurship from a mixed embeddedness perspective (2010, background): “The only way out (and up), then, is by breaking-out (cf Barrett, Jones, and McEvoy 2001; Engelen 2001).”
• Explaining Variations in Business Performance Among Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Canada (2006, background): “Niche development implies a break-out from immersion in the ethnic enclave economy to ‘mainstream’ markets (Engelen 2001).”
• Creating opportunities. Policies aimed at increasing openings for immigrant entrepreneurs in the Netherlands (2003, background): “The expansion of migrant entrepreneurship in this kind of setting should hence be seen as a push-driven process and would not warrant much enthusiasm, as most entrepreneurs would end up in unpromising markets (Engelen 2001).”