TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION:

Transnational Entrepreneurship: An Introduction to the Volume
Maria Elo
Jörg Freiling

SECTION I: TRANSNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURHIP

Transnational vs. domestic immigrant entrepreneurs:
a comparative literature analysis of the use of personal skills and social networks                    1
Giacomo Solano

Transnational entrepreneurship among Bukharian Jewish diaspora in Israel                           22
Maria Elo
Päivi Jokela

The Foreign Entrepreneur: An exploratory study of how assets and liabilities of
foreignness affect the foreign entrepreneurial venture                                                              43
Benjamin Walch

The Role of Local Partners for Descending Diaspora Entrepreneurship:
Overcoming Liability of Foreignness                                                                                       67
Aki Harima

Expatriate Entrepreneurship in the Gulf Region between Informality
and a Globalized Knowledge Society                                                                                       91
Joachim Kolb

SECTION II: WOMEN, POVERTY, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Women’s Economic Empowerment, Obstacles For Success:
Experiences From Southern Ethiopia                                                                                          109
Befikadu Esayas
Degefa Tolossa

SECTION III. BOOK REVIEW

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future                                                128
Jeremy Horpedahl