To Be or Not To Be a Samsar: Motivations for Entrepreneurship among Romanian Returnees Involved in the Transnational Trade in Used Vehicles

• Autorzy: Anatolie Coşciug
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Whilst the extant scholarship offers a detailed exploration of why return migrants enter self-employment or engage in business initiatives in general, we know relatively little about their involvement in transnational economic activities which connect the previous destination coun-try with the origin one and how they compare to other kinds of entrepreneurial venture in this vein. This article aims to understand these motivations by using insights from 50 semi-structured interviews conducted with traders of used cars imported in Romania, a mass phe-nomenon in the Central and Eastern European area and beyond. An important result of this research is that entrepreneurs have to consider a multitude of factors in multiple locations when entering the used-car business. The article also suggests that entrepreneurial motivations among used-car traders are not fixed but, rather, can and do change over time. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Population migration; Re-emigration; Immigrant entrepreneurship; Commercial enterprises; Motivation; Car market

PL

Migracja ludności; Reemigracja; Przedsiębiorczość imigrantów; Przedsiębiorstwo handlowe; Motywacje; Rynek samochodowy

• Czasopismo: Central and Eastern European Migration Review
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: 11
• Numer: nr 2
• Strony: 85--100

Twórcy

autor

Anatolie Coşciug

• "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania

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Identyfikatory

DOI

10.54667/ceemr.2022.11