Introduction

Entrepreneurship is a key element of business management in today’s time. However, there are several

challenges immigrants face when they try to start their very own business on foreign soil. The

immigrants require extra efforts to defeat the challenges while setting up their enterprises in their “new

home”. The motive of the research paper is to offer solutions to the migrant entrepreneurs to deal with

the difficulties and challenges that they face starting their business.

Research objective-already incorporated by you

Research question-already incorporated by you

Research methodology: Quantitative approach

 Because of the statistical nature, the quantitative approach is considered as the apt one, and

better than the qualitative research approach.

 The quantitative approach stresses the objective and numerical analysis of collected data via

surveys, polls, questionnaires, and influencing the already existing data with the aid of the

computational method.

 The main motive behind conducting the quantitative approach is to ascertain the relationship

between independent variables (Need to assimilate, Approach to Entrepreneurship,

Overwhelmed Clogged Movement, Specific Hurdles, Official Experiments) and dependent

variable (Immigrant Entrepreneurial Concentrating) within the immigrant population of The

Netherland.
Conceptual Model

Refer the diagram from the Final thesis paper (chap-2.10)= sorry for being a lazy ass :P

Independent Variables:

1. H1- The need to assimilate completely affects migrant entrepreneurial settings.

2. H2- Approach to entrepreneurship certainly impacts emigrant entrepreneurial settings.

3. H3- The need to overwhelmed clogged movement has a positive effect on immigrant entrepreneurial

settings.

4. H4- Specific hurdles destructively impact migrant entrepreneurial settings.

5. H5- Supposed official experiments negatively move immigrant entrepreneurial settings.

Dependent variable:

 Immigrant Entrepreneurial Concentrating

In the study, Immigrant Entrepreneurial Concentrating is the dependent variable. The immigrant self-

employers concentrating is the amount to which Indian migrants in the Netherlands thinking to start

their work rather than finding a job somewhere.

Main challenges/barrier faced by the Indian immigrants

 Lack of proper funds in the initial stage

This research discloses that immigrant business people face more trials than those born and brought up

in The Netherlands. Finding investment to start a business is the biggest hurdle faced. Meanwhile, they

lack strong credit, security and assurance, it is not so calm to acquire monetary provision from banks
and other organisations. The respondents who participated had used the investment from their funds

and loaned out from friends and families to start their business.

 Lack of proper Dutch language expertise

The next main challenge for the majority of the participants has been the lack of language abilities. The

lack of Dutch language expertise has been a major obstacle for the immigrant Indian business startup

entrepreneurs. Out of the eleven respondents, there are only two of them who are fluent in the native

language, and it has helped them to start their business without many hassles.

 Weak networking and distrust from local people

Another hurdle for the migrant businessmen/women is that they don’t seek helpers in the form of

families, schoolmates. Seeking help from others is one of the vital social steps to begin a new business.

All the respondents in this research, agree that the natives distrust and doubt them at the start of the

business.

 Lack of understanding of rules and regulations

This research also specifies that the Indian immigrant business people lack the understanding of The

Netherlands' regulation, rules, and tax policy scheme to run a business enterprise. The official procedure

linked to the tax regulations, and necessities for starting a startup is also a trial for them. In this

situation, the lack of Dutch language expertise seems to be one of the central issues.

Key outcomes of the field research

By interviewing and survey form filling the eleven immigrant entrepreneurs, the researcher found out

the following:
  More than 75% of the respondents are within their forties, which means that they are young

entrepreneurs.

 They have been in The Netherlands not less than one year.

 One of the prime reasons for emigrating to The Netherlands ishigher education.

 Two respondents are studying in Amsterdam

 The reason for immigrant entrepreneurship in The Netherlands has been job loss in the country,

and the eagerness to make money, and stay in The Netherlands for better standards of living.

 Starting with a business provides good opportunities as The Netherlands government has

started providing support to immigrant entrepreneurs.

 Out of the eleven respondents, two participants are proficient in the Dutch language, while the

rest of the participants cannot speak or understand the language at all.

 Four respondents have encountered a lack of confidence from the local Dutch people while

starting their business. The scenario is a little better with those immigrant business people who

have at least some proficiency in the Dutch language. But, there is no doubt to the fact that all

the eleven respondents have experienced some kind of issues related to confidence and

transparency from the locals.

 Usually, the capital for their businesses comes from their savings, family and friend support.

 Out of the eleven respondents, there has been only one person who has participated in the

entrepreneurship training. The others have not shown any kind of positive response in seeking

the help of the government in the process of entrepreneurship.

Figure list needs to be included from the Appendix 5 (the explanation of the figures are there in the

thesis. I will let you know once you incorporate the diagram.So keep some space after each figure in the

ppt)
Recommendations to the Indian Immigrants

 Understanding of the Dutch Language

The lack of knowledge of the Dutch language is the primary hurdle for immigrants during their

entrepreneurship. They make a loss since there is no language expertise. Thus, seeking training in the

Dutch language can make things easier and smooth with the local customers and the relevant Dutch

officials.

 Integrating with the local customers in The Netherlands

The immigrant businessmen and women need to investigate the current Dutch market, get in touch with

local customers, realise the actual requirements of the Dutch customers and cater to their services in a

customized manner. When the immigrant entrepreneurs meet the demands of the local customers

effectively, they are gaining the trust and the support from the local people.

 Understanding the laws and regulations of the Netherlands

Government regulations play an important role within this sector as businesses need to be constantly

monitored as well as a proper audit needs to occur within the facts that the business is being run in a

clear context. This means that abiding by the rules provided by the government will be leading in the

realization that all the requirements need to be understood as well as to be properly applied.

Recommendations to Future Researchers

The research paper has a distinctive limitation.

 The interview is carried out among the Indian immigrant entrepreneurs only and they do not

represent the complete immigrant entrepreneur community in The Netherlands. This can mean

that the outcome of the study can be quite narrow.

in The Netherlands. The researcher can conduct a more comprehensive study on the central

issue of the problems faced by immigrant entrepreneurs, along with the solutions, giving a

better guide to the immigrants starting businesses.

Limitations of the study

 One of the limitations relates to the validity of the data from primary sources. Surveys

conducted could be answered incorrectly by some individuals in a hurry to just complete the

surveys.

 The thesis focuses primarily on the known hurdles that concern the immigrant entrepreneurial

set-up. Since the time frame was limited, the outcomes of the entrepreneurial setting were left

out of the study.

 Since the data collected included personal networks and the Indian Embassy in The Netherlands,

the members might not fall under the category of the complete immigrants in Dutch society.

More investigation should be executed on a wider and larger section to evaluate whether the

decisions continue to be effective in other regions as well.

 In The Netherlands, it is developed clear that immigrants are problematic to reach, even when

utilizing the personal system of the Indian immigrants. Several immigrants were ready to help

but were not familiar to take part in the research survey questionnaire frequently.

 Moreover, many migrants have never taken part in any research survey earlier and are not

aware to share their opinions. This is one of the reasons, the majority of the people were not

ready or not comfortable to give their view, which caused missing figures in the research survey.