This document discusses the cross-cultural capabilities of immigrant entrepreneurs. It defines cross-cultural capabilities as skills related to handling uncertainty, having a positive attitude, resilience, developmental learning, and bilingualism. These capabilities help with socio-cultural and psychological adaptation in home and host countries, allowing immigrant entrepreneurs to leverage their skills to improve business performance. The document presents a figure showing the different cross-cultural capabilities and concludes that these skills are important for immigrant entrepreneurs to operate effectively across dual cultural environments.

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Cross-cultural Capabilities of Immigrant
Entrepreneurs
Dr. Nancy Agnes, Head, Technical Operations Phdassistance, info@phdassistance.co
Keyword
Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Capabilities Of
Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Engagement In
Entrepreneurship, Business Developing Help,
Dissertation Writing Help, developmental learning,
development,
I. INTRODUCTION
Across the globe, International migration has become
a central characteristic of developing countries,
contributing to the development of a multicultural
and open society. The connection between
international backgrounds and engagement in
entrepreneurship are becoming more widely known,
due to which the emergence of immigrant
entrepreneurship has become a phenomenon of global
importance (Morgan et al., 2018; Vahidnia et al.,
2019).
II. IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Immigrant entrepreneurship has undergone
significant change in the last few decades, prompting
many scholars in the fields of management,
economics, international business, entrepreneurship,
and sociology to do extensive Research on this
context (Ado et al., 2016).
Further, it is noted that businesses developed by
immigrants have adequate social and economic
returns, including competitiveness, jobs, innovation,
and prosperity, which in turn represents the
Immigrant entrepreneurship success in different parts
of the world (Carbonell et al., 2014).
A recent conversation about the players involved in
international entrepreneurship has helped to
understand how immigrant entrepreneurs vary from
other international entrepreneurs (Elo et al., 2018).
Immigrant entrepreneurs are distinctive in their
entrepreneurial internationalization approaches in
relation to pathways and procedures, as a result of
their unique capabilities, which assist them in
bridging the capital from different countries
(Vinogradov & Jorgensen, 2017).
III. CROSS-CULTURAL CAPABILITIES
In the immigrant entrepreneurship context, cross-
cultural capabilities are defined as “the capability to
handle uncertainty, a positive attitude, resilience, a
developmental learning capability and a bilingual
capability”. Cross-cultural adaptation refers to
psychological and sociocultural adaptation in the field
of immigrant entrepreneurship. That is, cross-cultural
capabilities can be noted as skills of an individual
relevant to psychological and sociocultural adaptation
leveraged for business performance in home and host
countries. Generally, a sociocultural adaptation
capability describes the language skills, cultural
learning, and bicultural flexibility of an individual.
On the other hand, Psychological adaptation
capability refers to managing emotions and the
positive attitude of individuals (Kunlin Xu, 2017).
The below figure represents the cross-cultural
capabilities of immigrant entrepreneurship

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Figure 1: Cross-Cultural Capabilities of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
IV. CONCLUSION
As a result, immigrant entrepreneurs must be able to
transit between two cultural traditions, schemas, and
behaviours in response to cultural prompts when they
move to a foreign country with a different culture.
Also, bicultural skills may be deemed more evident
than multicultural capabilities to immigrant
entrepreneurs because of the dual cultural
environments in which they reside (Xu, 2021). In
this view, cross-cultural capabilities of immigrant
entrepreneurs are sets of skills linked with a socio-
cultural and psychological adaptation of individual’s
which can be used to improve outcomes for the
business in both home and host countries. It is no
doubt that Immigrant entrepreneurs will undeniably
benefit from their cross-cultural skill.
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