Minority entrepreneurship in Switzerland. The challenges and needs of Brazilian women entrepreneurs
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Autor:innen
Autor:in (Körperschaft)
Publikationsdatum
2023
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Sammlung
Typ
04B - Beitrag Konferenzschrift
Herausgeber:innen
Herausgeber:in (Körperschaft)
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Übergeordnetes Werk
Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Themenheft
DOI der Originalpublikation
Link
Reihe / Serie
Reihennummer
Jahrgang / Band
1
Ausgabe / Nummer
Seiten / Dauer
607-616
Patentnummer
Verlag / Herausgebende Institution
Universidade Portucalense
Verlagsort / Veranstaltungsort
Porto
Auflage
Version
Programmiersprache
Abtretungsempfänger:in
Praxispartner:in/Auftraggeber:in
Zusammenfassung
The 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.
Schlagwörter
Fachgebiet (DDC)
330 - Wirtschaft
Veranstaltung
18th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Startdatum der Ausstellung
Enddatum der Ausstellung
Startdatum der Konferenz
21.09.2023
Enddatum der Konferenz
22.09.2023
Datum der letzten Prüfung
ISBN
978-1-914587-83-2
978-1-914587-82-5
978-1-914587-82-5
ISSN
Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Ja
Zukunftsfelder FHNW
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
Open Access-Status
Diamond
Lizenz
Zitation
MEYER, Dario, Therese SCHMUTZ und Rolf MEYER, 2023. Minority entrepreneurship in Switzerland. The challenges and needs of Brazilian women entrepreneurs. In: Fernando MOREIRA und Shital JAYANTILAL (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Porto: Universidade Portucalense. 2023. S. 607–616. ISBN 978-1-914587-83-2. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-7440