Transition towards entrepreneurship. How an immigrant can generate entrepreneurial identity and start-up a new business venture while living abroad

      Аннотация: Becoming an entrepreneur at this present time in our society is seen as an essential way of creating a new market, self-employment and generating new opportunities for others to be employed. Entrepreneurship involves an entrepreneur having a set of objectives, market plan, resource, social capital, and network. This book sheds light on how immigrants understand the notion of entrepreneurship. Some books expressly concluded that entrepreneurship is an advanced professional prospect. This has made people become very hesitant and often discouraged by the word entrepreneurship. Consequently, only a few individuals proactively take the necessary steps to start-up new business. This book explored immigrants who came to unknown territories and seized upon new directions in life that led them to become business entrepreneurs. This book reveals that setting up a new business venture from scratch is possible. The keynote about this book is that it serves as a reference guide to anyone who is looking for an opportunity but face challenges towards making a transition in a foreign territory. Facts in this book show that entrepreneurship can be a conceivable prosperous path to any individual.

Ключевые слова: entrepreneurship, West African immigrants, Entrepreneurs, exploring possible selves, entrepreneurial mindset, developing narratives, self-efficacy, identity generation