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Globalization, Immigrant Entrepreneurial Success, Issues and Prospects : An Assessment of Sri Lankan Entrepreneurs in Japan

eng

00229741

https://doi.org/10.15002/00014742

法政大学経済学部学会

85

4

25

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2018-03-23

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The number of foreign-born population living in advanced countries have been increasing at an unprecedented rate in the past few decades. Immigrant entrepreneurs have begun to be increasingly focused due to increasing numbers and contribution made by them to the host, home and global economies. Even though absolute number and growth rate of foreign born population has been significantly low in Japan, the composition of it has substantially diversified during the past two decades. However, only a very small number of scholars have paid attention to conduct studies on immigrant entrepreneurs in Japan due to various reasons. The aim of this research is to assess entrepreneurial success, explore issues, and evaluate prospects of Sri Lankan Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Japan (SLIEJ). A wellstructured questionnaire was distributed among 500 SLIEJ and 316 were responded. A quantitative method was used to understand relationship among entrepreneurial issues, entrepreneurial success and entrepreneurial prospects. Exploratory and Confirmatory Factors Analyses, and Structural Equation Model (SEM) were used to evaluate data and verify hypothesized relationships. Three main hypotheses were tested. Overall findings indicate that the relationship between immigrant entrepreneurial issues and entrepreneurial success was significantly positive. Relationship between entrepreneurial success and entrepreneurial prospect was also significant. Among the main issues faced by SLIEJ were inconsistency and sudden changes of policies by Sri Lankan government, low quality low price new products importing from china (mainly automobile & machinery sector), Quality maintenance of Sri Lankan suppliers, technology issues of Sri Lankan suppliers, regulations for agricultural good importation in Japan, and skill labour shortage in Japan. Use of innovations, export orientation and high assimilation into Japanese society and economy were identified as special characteristics of successful Sri Lankan immigrant entrepreneurs in Japan.

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