Legacy communal family systems in entrepreneurship: a migrant entrepreneurship phenomenon in Europe

Simba, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0276-8211, Braune, E, Boncori, A-L and Jones, P, 2025. Legacy communal family systems in entrepreneurship: a migrant entrepreneurship phenomenon in Europe. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. ISSN 0898-5626

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Abstract

Research identifies universal entrepreneurship peculiarities, but how legacy communal family systems impact migrant entrepreneurs has remained esoteric. Accordingly, we introduce an overlapping entrepreneurial action–migrant entrepreneurship theoretical interface to examine 1,284 European and sub-Saharan African entrepreneurs. Compared with a European entrepreneur’s nuclear family mindset, regression results reveal that a legacy communal family mindset of belonging and obligation to serve society influences a sub-Saharan African migrant entrepreneur’s behaviour, values, and entrepreneurship practice in a European setup. In this context, a legacy communal family system attributable to a migrant entrepreneur’s country of –origin underlies their entrepreneurial cognitive processes. This understanding contributes theoretical perspectives to account for how a sub-Saharan African migrant entrepreneur’s ingrained legacy communal family mindset does not decay irrespective of their circumstances. It also contributes knowledge, clarifying the prolonged impact of traditional socio-business philosophies in migrant entrepreneurship with academic, business, policy, and social implications.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
Creators:	Simba, A., Braune, E., Boncori, A.-L. and Jones, P.
Publisher:	Informa UK Limited
Date:	4 October 2025
ISSN:	0898-5626
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/08985626.2025.2567937 DOI 2509257 Other
Rights:	© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Laura Borcherds
Date Added:	07 Oct 2025 16:43
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2025 16:43
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/54522

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