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Employment (2)

Tallinn University of Technology: Tallinn, EE

2023-02-01 to present | Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship (Department of Business Administration)
Employment
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Aki Harima

University of Bremen: Bremen, DE

2013-08-01 to 2024-01-31 | Research associate / Lecturer (Chair in Small Business & Entrepreneurship)
Employment
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Aki Harima

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Bremen: Bremen, DE

2013-08-01 to 2016-07-31 | Dr. rer. pol. (Business Studies & Economics)
Education
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Aki Harima

University of Mannheim: Mannheim, DE

2010-10-01 to 2013-06-30 | Mannheim Master in Management
Education
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Aki Harima

Kobe University: Kobe, JP

2005-01-04 to 2009-09-30 | BSc in Business Administration (Business Administration)
Education
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Aki Harima

Funding (7)

Transnational Student Project: Developing Solutions for Incubators in Namibia

2018-03 to 2018-03 | Grant
University of Bremen (Bremen, DE)
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Aki Harima

Conference Participation in RENT 2018

2017-11 to 2017-11 | Grant
DAAD (Bonn, DE)
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Aki Harima

Exploring Characteristics of Descending Diaspora Entrepreneurship (PhD thesis)

2017-11 to 2017-11 | Award
Wiwib e.V. (Bremen, DE)
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Aki Harima

Virtual Incubator for Refugee Entrepreneurship

2017-08 to 2020-07 | Grant
Erasmus+ (Bonn, DE)
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Aki Harima

The Role of NGO Promoting Refugee Entrepreneurship

2017-06 to 2017-06 | Award
ICSB (Buenos Aires, AR)
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Aki Harima

Exploring Characteristics of Descending Diaspora Entrepreneurship (PhD Thesis)

Award
Segniz Price 2016 (Bremen, DE)
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Aki Harima

Rich-to-Poor Diaspora Ventures – How Do They Survive?

Award
13th International Conference of the Society for Global Business & Economic Development (Ancona, IT)
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Aki Harima

Works (24)

Ecosystem Orchestration: Unpacking the Leadership Capabilities of Anchor Organizations in Nascent Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Aki Harima; Jan Harima; Jörg Freiling
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Where will my future Be? Adaptive sensemaking of refugee camp entrepreneurs in perpetual liminality

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
2024-08-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Aki Harima; Crista Plak
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Transnational migration entrepreneurship during a crisis: Immediate response to challenges and opportunities emerging through the COVID‐19 pandemic

Business and Society Review
2022-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Aki Harima
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Theorizing Disembedding and Re-Embedding: Resource Mobilization in Refugee Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
2022-03-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Aki Harima
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Role ambiguity in entrepreneurship education: expectation gaps between educators and students in venture creation courses

Education + Training
2021-11-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Aki Harima; Agnieszka Kroczak; Martina Repnik
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Entrepreneurship? Let us do it later: procrastination in the intention–behavior gap of student entrepreneurship

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
2021-07-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Aki Harima; Jessica Gießelmann; Vibeka Göttsch; Lina Schlichting
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Entrepreneurial Opportunities of Refugees in Germany, France, and Ireland: Multiple Embeddedness Framework

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
2021-06-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Aki Harima; Fabrice Periac; Tony Murphy; Salomé Picard
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The injection of resources by transnational entrepreneurs: towards a model of the early evolution of an entrepreneurial ecosystem

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
2021-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Aki Harima; Jan Harima; Jörg Freiling
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Is this Transnational Entrepreneurship? Five Cases in Which It Is Hard to Say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies
2020-01-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Aki Harima; Thomas Baron
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Dual Embeddedness and Entrepreneurial Activities of Second-Generation Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Multiple Case Studies with Vietnamese Entrepreneurs in Germany

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies
2020-01-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Cat-My Dang; Aki Harima
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Co-Creation of Social Entrepreneurial Opportunities with Refugees

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
2020-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Aki Harima; Julia Freudenberg
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Refugee Entrepreneurship

The impact of cultural values on Vietnamese ethnic entrepreneurs in Germany

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Quynh Duong Phuong; Aki Harima
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The Role of Diaspora Entrepreneurs in Startup-up Ecosystem Development – A Berlin Case Study.

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
2019 | Journal article
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Aki Harima

Functional domains of business incubators for refugee entrepreneurs

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy
2019-03-27 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1750-6204
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Aki Harima

Classification of Diaspora Entrepreneurship

Diaspora Business
2016 | Book chapter
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Aki Harima

Rich-to-poor Diaspora Ventures: How Do They Survive?

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
2016 | Journal article
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Aki Harima

To Try or Not to Try? A Story of Diaspora Entrepreneurship

The Future of Global Organizing (Progress in International Business Research, Volume 10)
2015 | Book chapter
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Aki Harima

Diaspora Business Model Innovation

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management, and Innovation
2015 | Journal article
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Aki Harima

Motivation of Japanese Descending Diaspora Entrepreneurs

Studia i Materialy
2015 | Journal article
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Aki Harima

Network Benefits for Ghanaian Diaspora and Returnee Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review
2015 | Journal article
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Aki Harima

The Role of Local Partners for Descending Diaspora Entrepreneurship: Overcoming Liability of Foreignness.

American Journal of Entrepreneurship
2015 | Journal article
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Aki Harima

Network Dynamics of Descending Diaspora Entrepreneurship: Multiple Case Studies with Japanese Entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation
2014 | Journal article
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Aki Harima

Case Studies: Japanese Entrepreneurs in Emerging Countries

Diaspora Networks in International Business
Book chapter
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Aki Harima

Peer review (5 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for International business review. (1)
Review activity for International entrepreneurship and management journal. (1)
Review activity for Journal of business venturing insights. (1)
Review activity for Journal of business venturing. (2)