IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/mgmchp/978-3-031-62419-3_15.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

How Can the Nordic Automotive Aftermarket Provide Opportunities Counteracting the Challenges of Disadvantaged Entrepreneurs?

In: Automotive Aftermarket

Author

Listed:
  • David Breitenbach

    (PatentRenewal.com ApS)

  • Susanne Sandberg

    (School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University)

  • Maria Elo

    (University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
    Shanghai University
    Abo Akademi University
    University of Turku)

Abstract

This chapter explores how the automotive aftermarket could provide potential opportunities for the challenges refugee and immigrant entrepreneurs face in the Nordic countries. As the automotive industry has a vast societal impact, including geographical, economical, and employment effects, the aim of this paper is to explore the Automotive Aftermarket (AA) as a potential gateway for disadvantaged newcomers, e.g., refugees and immigrants in the Nordics, to become entrepreneurs and reach prosperity. Through qualitative research it is shown that the automotive aftermarket industry has excellent market conditions for disadvantaged entrepreneurs through low entry barriers and increasing demand side. The industry is also characterised by strong network influences, while its institutional infrastructure might be difficult to navigate. Additionally, this paper also found that language has a central piece in overcoming refugee entrepreneurs’ challenges in social integration. In summary, the paper concludes that raising awareness of the opportunities the automotive aftermarket provides in the Nordics could be beneficial both for the industry’s social impact and newcomers who wish to contribute to the development of the entrepreneurial landscape of AA.

Suggested Citation

  • David Breitenbach & Susanne Sandberg & Maria Elo, 2024. "How Can the Nordic Automotive Aftermarket Provide Opportunities Counteracting the Challenges of Disadvantaged Entrepreneurs?," Management for Professionals, in: Maria Elo & Fotios Katsardis (ed.), Automotive Aftermarket, pages 309-337, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-031-62419-3_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-62419-3_15
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-031-62419-3_15. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.