Analysis of Factors Influencing Migrant Business Ownership

This report examines the factors influencing business ownership among migrants in Australia. It explores the entrepreneurial skills of migrants, including innovation and adaptability, as well as the impact of socio-cultural and economic characteristics on business success. The study also analyzes the role of government policies, such as financial support and entrepreneurial ecosystems, in fostering migrant entrepreneurship. The research employs a qualitative approach, using face-to-face interviews to gather in-depth data from individuals. The report addresses key research questions about entrepreneurial skills, socio-cultural influences, and government policies, providing insights into the challenges and opportunities for migrant entrepreneurs in Australia.

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Factors Influencing Business Ownership by Migrants in Australia
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Introduction
Business owners are mostly dedicated to understanding the condition of the business
environment for a constant flow of daily activities in that particular industry. In Australia,
there have been augmentations in the number of migrants who connect with each other in
social and economic exercises in the nation. The migrants in Australia are outfitted with an
opportunity to work and start a business in the nation by acquiring work permits/visas
(Australia.gov, 2018). The government of Australia focuses on the development theory and
business endeavour in the nation for the achievement of the set macroeconomic destinations
of age. The focus of Australia is to offer migrants with measures to work and entrepreneurial
open entryways for sensible execution of the business. The national assembly gives standards
and planned directions to control development in Australia to ensure that there is an extended
social progress in the nation. The migrants have contributed to the financial progression in
the nation by supporting work and placing assets into a business. The 2016 specification
exhibits that 24% of non-English migrants and half of English migrants between 25 to 34
years can pick up work openings in Australia (Chang, 2018). The nation has offered
opportunities to homeless people to have business which is crucial in ensuring that there is
social and economic advancement.
Project Objective
The objective of the study is to evaluate the factors that influence business ownership
by migrants in Australia. As such, the project will consider the entrepreneurial skills of the
migrants, the impact of the socio-cultural and economic characteristics of the migrants, and
the government policies on business ownership in relation to migrants.

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Project Scope
The project will focus on two areas of importance to the topic: the migrant community
in Australia, and the nature of the environment provided by the Australian government in
terms of policy developments regarding the starting and operation of a business by a migrant.
The study will assume that all migrants are equal by law. The research shall not deviate from
the scope and objective of the study.
Literature Review
Introduction
The government of Australia aims to build up a legitimate stage that will improve the
entrepreneurial aptitudes of the migrant communities in the country. The strengthening
programs by the administration go for guaranteeing that the migrants work towards the
economic advancement of the country. Alam and Imran (2015) clarified that the Australian
government is centered around quality administrations through the utilization of innovation.
The digitalisation in the country has made it feasible for a person to fire up a business which
will build the way of life of the group. Organizations by settlers are required to center around
the utilization of innovation in making it likely for the business to perform well in Australia.
The consideration of transients bunches in government basic leadership has given the data
required by the group for a relentless stream of activities. The country is centered around
managing the computerized many-sided quality and web innovation in the country to manage
the innovation separate (Alam and Imran 2015). Advanced proficiency considers the
instruction and preparing level actualized in the country. Australia has satisfactory ICT assets
that are utilized as a part of digitalizing tasks for appropriate entrepreneurial exercises. There
has been an expansion in the quantity of transients in Australia in the current past. Doherty
and Evershed (2018) demonstrate that the quantity of transients expanded from 85,000 out of

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1996 to 208,000 of every 2017. The relocation to Australia has enormously added to
populace development therefore the administration has built up an approach that is gone for
guaranteeing that the vagrants add to social and financial advancement in the nation.
Entrepreneurial Skills
Entrepreneurial aptitudes for Australia migrants are required in giving an appropriate
stream of organizations in the country. The remote business visionaries accompany new ways
and techniques to deal with various issues confronting organizations in the area. The business
visionaries are required to be imaginative to create items and administrations that are
remarkable in the market. Special items help a business to gain the coveted piece of the pie in
the business. Adams et al. (2016) give the need of concentrating on advancement in creating
items and administrations that will offer market maintainability. The business people are
required to create adaptable arrangement detail will expand the stream of the business in the
focused on showcase. The items created by an association should offer social and ecological
advantage through esteem expansion to the group. The development frameworks actualized
by an entrepreneur helps with adjusting to the changing business condition (Adams et al.
2016). The plan of action actualized by a business person is required to offer an expanded
generation level in the group. The inventive arrangements are utilized by business visionaries
in Australia in dealing with the accessible assets adequately for a fruitful business section. As
indicated by Grant (2016), a business person is required to create procedures that will
improve execution in the focused on advertise. The assessment of buyer needs is utilized as a
part of guaranteeing that there are an effective business section and extension to new markets.
The technique is in guaranteeing that there is a quality basic leadership process that will
encourage generation for the achievement of set creation objectives by an association.

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Socio-cultural and economic characteristics
In enterprise social-monetary factor is a critical component for a business to prosper.
The business person is relied upon to have an appropriate comprehension of the socio-social
factors in Australia for an unfaltering stream of tasks. The components help with creating
items and administrations that are generally acknowledged by the focused on customers in
the market. The vagrant business visionary ought to examine the outer business condition in
finding the general public. Independent work furnishes the group with a chance to secure
wages through the offering of items and administrations to the group. As per Simoes, Crespo
and Moreira (2016) independent work are the best chance to accomplish the coveted level of
pay to a person. An effective business is relied upon to address the issues and wants of the
group. The Australian government gives the group a chance to procure benefits from business
activities. The identity and view of an individual are required to be certain in procuring a
legitimate business passage. Kozubikova et al. (2015), states that a business visionary is
assumed the accompanying characteristics; valor, responsibility, reason, innovativeness, and
assurance. The individual qualities are utilized to build up a solid business that will secure a
reasonable stream in the focused on showcase. The solid characteristics of business
visionaries are utilized as a part of creating items and administrations that make the vagrants
business to be top merchants in the country.
Government policies
The Australian government is centered around executing government arrangements
that will upgrade generation level in the country. The arrangements executed should improve
nearby and remote business section for the accomplishment of set macroeconomic objectives
by the country (Australia.gov, 2018). Australia has open strategies that energize enterprise
through budgetary help to individuals with business thoughts. The legislature is required to

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build up an entrepreneurial biological system that will deal with the enthusiasm of business
visionaries and the administration (World Economic Forum, 2018). Enterprise is the best
method to manage the joblessness issue confronting the group. The thought of all partners in
a business situation influences the administration to create proper conditions for business
advance. As indicated by Falkner (2017), it is essential to fabricate a solid business and
government relationship to upgrade the creation level of an association (Ng and Metz 2015;
Hamilton and Webster, 2015).
The administration approaches should center around becoming the new and existing
organizations for a positive stream of the economy. Government activities are required to
expand the abilities and information of the group for an expansion underway level. The
private and open segments are required to work together in building up an appropriate
business condition that will influence the country to pull in financial specialists (Falkner
2017). The legislature is a roundabout facilitator of business advance henceforth requiring a
legitimate connection between the administration and organizations.
Research Question
The framework of the research process will be guided by the following research questions:
Primary Question
1. What are the factors influencing business ownership by migrants in Australia
Secondary Questions
1. What entrepreneurial skills do migrants possess?
2. How do the socio-cultural and economic characteristics affect business ownership
among migrants?
3. Do government policies influence business ownership by migrants?

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Research Design and Methodology
The project will use a qualitative research approach and this section details the step by
step design, sampling and sample size, data collection instrument, and the analysis of data to
ensure that the research is reliable ad valid. The researcher will collect data from individuals
and will thus consider ethical regulations on the collection, use and reporting of data at all
stages of the project.
Qualitative research
Sekaram and Bogie (2016) reported that the techniques utilized in an evaluation
convey a one of a kind view to the exploration. Subsequently, Bryman and Bell (2015)
proposes that the determination of a suitable strategy for the evaluation ought to be controlled
by a precise comprehension of the stages of the inquiry, choosing the best attack of the design
and methodology of research for the particular topic of investigation. Further, Saunders,
Lewis and Thornhill (2015) propose that it is the variables of the research question that ought
to guide the choice of the approach to be utilized.
To additionally legitimize the decision of this approach, two included things about the
idea of the subjective technique ought to be specified. To begin with, subjective research
underlines the need to understand what individuals see as the truth about their conditions
instead of the analyst making numerical or foreordained suppositions. Second, the point is to
find individual examples of conduct, an undertaking which isn't preferably drawn nearer
through a positivistic stance. Bryman and Bell (2015) agreed that if the accentuation is on a
person's interpretation of theirs and others' conduct, at that point the qualitative procedure is
generally proper.
Subjective or experimental research is non-numeric, the collection of evidence is
depicted as the of the substance, events, and the evaluation of human experience (Saunders et

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al., 2015; Zikmund Babin, Carr, & Griffin, 2013). As indicated by qualitative research is a
reasoning that is never static, and it is controlled by its key variables. The protest of
subjective research is the member's involvement in events, the manner in which cognizance
offers significance to their reality in a qualitative manner.
Research Instrument
In qualitative research, the goal isn't to sum up to a populace, rather, it is to build up
an inside and out investigation a topic that is being looked into (Bryman & Bell, 2015).
Various data collection tools exist in qualitative research and face-to-face interviews are
among the most appropriate and most generally utilized instrument. As indicated by Bryman
and Bell (2015) interviewing can be exceptionally adaptable, when the questioner has the
opportunity to determine the questions during the interview.
A rundown of controlling inquiries will be formed and used to direct the interviewer
with a specific end goal to ensure that all respondents address the issues that are of
importance to this project. Nonetheless, this question will not be utilized for standardizing the
procedure of data collection, it only acted a guiding script for the research objective and was
planned to trigger and guide the questioner. Along these lines, as discussed above, the
motivation behind this evaluation isn't to produce a static test and after that generalize the
outcomes to other populations, or different settings, but instead to gain from individuals who
are data rich' and can best understand the particular goal of this project.
Sampling and Data collection
To answer the primary question is necessary to use the technique that will reveal as
much relevant data as possible. In this qualitative study, a non-probability sampling technique
is most suitable but because of the small number of respondents to be used in the study a

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snowball approach will be employed. As such, the study will rely on a chain-referral
sampling whereby, the participants of the study are acquired through recommendations from
previous interviewees. Personal contacts will be very important.
Utilizing this sampling approach the investigation could accumulate information on
migrant independent ventures from a scope of sources including; Ethnic Chamber of
Commerce (ECC), Small Business Victoria (SBV), Federation of Ethnic Communities'
Councils of Australia (FECCA), and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
South Australia (ACCC), and any pertinent archives and materials from these entities.
The determination of members was assisted with the help of the Immigration
Department, who have numerous migrant individuals living in Australia. Gathered
information will originate from two gatherings of migrant entrepreneurs; those business
administrators firmly connected to ethnic business affiliations and those not firmly connected
to such affiliations. Specifically, Adelaide has an exceptionally solid migrant business
affiliation and through nearby contacts, it is expected that this group will provide access to
several interviews.
Reliability and Validity
The validity and reliability of the project results will be assured by the research
approach used during the evaluation process. In this process, triangulation of data sources
will be employed as it can reveal outlying variables from an interviewee (Zikmund et al.,
2015).
Research Limitation
This type of study can be approached using various unique methods of research,
which can have implications on the project. It is thus essential to acknowledge the possibility

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of bias in the choice and use of research methodology. These bases will be identified and
minimized to limit their impact on the outcome of the study.
Time Schedule
The Gantt chart below shows the research plan.
Figure 1: Research Time Schedule
Conclusion
Australian government creates development situated approaches that will expand
organizations in the country by dealing with the difficulties in the market. The transients can
set up business and effectively develop in the country because of the appropriate
entrepreneurial biological system. The assessment of various exchange standards and controls

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makes it feasible for an association to enter the universal market. Globalization has made it
workable for remote financial specialists to begin organizations in various countries.
Australia is a country that goes for utilizing globalization to expand the business passage and
extension in the district. The business benchmarks in Australia are gone for guaranteeing that
there is social and financial improvement through an expanded level of enterprise. Australia
creates multiculturalism approach that is intended to raise the finishing level of the country in
worldwide market. Expanded business enterprise emphatically impacts the stream of the
country to get the coveted level of national aggressiveness. The engaging of migrants through
business enterprise is fundamental for lessening the reliance and joblessness rate in the
country. The emphasis on talented migration emphatically impacts the advancement of
Australia to the coveted aggressiveness globally. The Australian government builds up an
adaptable multicultural strategy that will deal with the changing needs of transients from
various countries. The vagrants are given an appropriate entrepreneurial biological
community that spotlights on business advance in the country.

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