Minority entrepreneurship in Switzerland. The challenges and needs of Brazilian women entrepreneurs

dc.contributor.authorMeyer, Dario
dc.contributor.authorSchmutz, Therese
dc.contributor.authorMeyer, Rolf
dc.contributor.editorMoreira, Fernando
dc.contributor.editorJayantilal, Shital
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-08T12:23:09Z
dc.date.available2024-04-08T12:23:09Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe number of Brazilian citizens in Switzerland has risen significantly over the past decades by factor 24 compared to the total foreign population, which grew by factor 2.5. As with many migrant groups, integration into the labour market is difficult. This can lead to a higher number of people choosing to start their own business. Brazilians in their home country are more entrepreneurial than Swiss people and among Brazilian women, 17.3% are entrepreneurially active. This can partly be explained with less options on the labour market – a challenge that Brazilian women also experience in Switzerland. Therefore, entrepreneurship also became a viable career option abroad. Little is known about neither the businesses, the challenges, and the needs of female Brazilian entrepreneurs, nor of female entrepreneurs of other minority groups. This paper looked at these points to find out how they can be supported best to enhance their businesses. The findings will be of use for entrepreneurs themselves, as well as for supporting organisations to adapt their offerings. To get the required insights, we took a quantitative approach and surveyed 54 Brazilian women in Switzerland with an online questionnaire. The participants were members of a Brazilian women business club. The results were analysed using SPSS. The entrepreneurs came to Switzerland mainly for love and family reasons. The businesses are small, mainly targeting the Brazilian community and only a small minority can sustain themselves from their self-employment alone. While the financial success is rather low, the personal satisfaction of having a business is very high. The biggest challenges are finding customers, where also the biggest need for support is. The results show that the support structures are not accessible enough for founders from minority groups and that offerings need to be adjusted to have a broader reach.
dc.event18th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
dc.event.end2023-09-22
dc.event.start2023-09-21
dc.identifier.doi10.34190/ecie.18.1.1660
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-914587-83-2
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-914587-82-5
dc.identifier.urihttps://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/43475
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-7440
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversidade Portucalense
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 18th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
dc.spatialPorto
dc.subject.ddc330 - Wirtschaft
dc.titleMinority entrepreneurship in Switzerland. The challenges and needs of Brazilian women entrepreneurs
dc.type04B - Beitrag Konferenzschrift
dc.volume1
dspace.entity.typePublication
fhnw.InventedHereYes
fhnw.ReviewTypeAnonymous ex ante peer review of a complete publication
fhnw.affiliation.hochschuleHochschule für Wirtschaftde_CH
fhnw.affiliation.institutInstitut für Unternehmensführungde_CH
fhnw.openAccessCategoryDiamond
fhnw.pagination607-616
fhnw.publicationStatePublished
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