Summary: Diaspora Entrepreneurial Outcomes

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5.2.8 Entrepreneurial Outcomes The definition of Diaspora Entrepreneur is subjectively constructed, as terms such as ‘struggling’, ‘surviving’, ‘successful’, and ‘managing’ are used to describe entrepreneurial outcomes. Establishing the benefits, performance and success of entrepreneurship can be daunting because measures, definitions, and interpretations are fraught with great amount of variation. Werbner (1999) argues that the idea of failure or success in Diaspora Entrepreneurship is to a certain extend confusing. The best measurement for success is the collective creation of value; however, these contents of value are rather ambiguous (Masurel and Nijkamp, 2004). Similarly, Rath (2006) contends that determining benefits, performance and …show more content…

This theoretical views asserts that human beings are motivated by both physiological and psychological basic needs, which are organised into a ‘hierarchy of relative prepotency’ (Gobble, 1970, p.39). ‘Survival needs’ form the basis of the hierarchical triangle and the needs considered essential for ‘self-actualisation’ are at the top, while ‘love and belongingness needs’ are positioned somewhere in between. As a result if the need to belong is achieved, a person gains positive development and if not, personal development is likely to come to a standstill and may in some cases regress if they are of the opinion their spirit of belonging has negatively affected their personal development. Importance is attached to the need to belonging in the social sense, and Maslow argues that belonging as a social designation was necessary to self-development and to self-actualisation (Goble, 1970). Even though this theory has been constantly criticized for its hierarchical formation (Wahba & Bridwell, 1974) and ethnocentricity, that is, it focuses on needs originating from individualistic rather than collectivist perspectives (Cianci and Gambrel, 2003); it still offers a valuable instrument for analysis for the issues at …show more content…

Part of this cultural mystification is because of the language barrier. You have to be very proficient in the German language to be able to break through this barrier. Then there is a barrier of acceptance, being a coloured or a foreigner you will never be fully integrated. This is a a very wrong assertion because with the changing dynamics of world businesses today, both environments and individuals have to adapt to stay afloat or risk getting thrown out of

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