Dr. Rima Bizri, RHU assistant professor and chair of the Department of Management and Marketing Studies at RHU College of Business Administration, has recently published a paper titled: Refugee-Entrepreneurship: A Social Capital Perspective in the Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Journal https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08985626.2017.1364787
Dr. Bizri's study “seeks to identify the characteristics of refugee-entrepreneurial startups, which distinguish them from other immigrant entrepreneurial ventures”. Based on a single case analysis qualitative research, she was able to reveal “five distinctive attributes that characterized that startup and which corresponded to the three dimensions of social capital. Those attributes were: a ‘one-way-ahead’ attitude, a pseudo family business perception, collective bootstrapping, a distinct network structure, and opportunity-seizing proliferation, thereby depicting how social capital is used by refugee-entrepreneurs to maximize the pool of opportunities in their host nations.”
Her publication gave insight to the authors of a blog article in NextBillion, an initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan. The blog article can be found at: https://nextbillion.net/understanding-and-accelerating-refugee-entrepreneurs/