Demystifiying themeaning of transnational entrepreneurship: Indian transnational entrepreneurs in comparative perspective

Abstract

Migration of people from one geographical location to another, within or outside a country, has a major role to play in the socio-economic development across the globe. 'Migrants' and 'immigrants' that showcase entrepreneurial traits and are valued in both home and host countries. Transnational entrepreneurs are often studied in various cross-national entrepreneurial research streams, like international entrepreneurship, immigrant entrepreneurship, thus causing ambiguity in the existing definitions. This paper contributes a specific definition of "transnational entrepreneurship", based on secondary research, which takes into account different mobility types. It emphasizes the importace of this construct for developing transnational entrepreneurial typologies. The authors propose a 'framework of transnational entrepreneurship' in the paper.