The aim of this paper is to identify how the diaspora consciousness of Syrian entrepreneurs in Egypt might affect their business practices. The research sample comprises semi‐structured interviews with Syrian refugee owners of small and medium‐sized businesses in Egypt. Thematic analysis was subsequently used to determine the main ideas in the transcripts from the interviews. The findings showed that diaspora consciousness stimulates Syrian refugees to actively engage in three categories of business‐related practices: contextual (expanding entrepreneurial activities outside their host country, desire to constitute a Western country‐based business venture), functional (reliance on a value chain within the same nationality, tending to adopt shadow economy practices), and procedural practices (preferring to develop family businesses, establishing only small and medium‐sized enterprises). This paper contributes by filling a gap in the literature on refugee entrepreneurship in which empirical studies on the effect of diaspora consciousness on the business practices of refugee entrepreneurs have been limited so far.

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非西方国家的难民创业：叙利亚难民企业家如何应对侨民意识和负面偏见？

本文的目的是确定埃及叙利亚企业家的侨民意识如何影响他们的商业实践。研究样本包括对埃及中小型企业的叙利亚难民业主的半结构化访谈。随后使用主题分析来确定访谈记录中的主要观点。研究结果表明，侨民意识刺激叙利亚难民积极参与三类与商业相关的实践：情境性（将创业活动扩展到东道国之外，渴望建立以西方国家为基础的商业企业）、功能性（依赖价值链）同一民族内部，倾向于采取影子经济做法）和程序做法（倾向于发展家族企业，只建立中小企业）。本文的贡献在于填补了难民创业文献中的空白，迄今为止，关于侨民意识对难民企业家商业实践影响的实证研究还很有限。