The community of Chinese “expat-preneurs”: understanding the challenges of doing business abroad

What is it about?

Expat-preneurship in an intriguing form of global mobility that encompasses the international venturing experience of those individuals who voluntarily go abroad, on their own initiative, to temporarily live and do business. These individuals have received the attention of the expatriate researchers but has been largely overlooked by entrepreneurship scholars. Due to the temporary nature of their stay, and the position of ‘privilege’ these individuals have, because of their education, ethnicity, human capital, social class, financial resources among others, they are not forced to go abroad or remain in a single destination. By expanding the knowledge about Chinese expat-preneurs in Portugal the results document a phenomenon of Chinese entrepreneurial itinerancy.

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