Effects of Personal and Environmental Characteristics on Immigrant Entrepreneurial Motivation, Strategies and Outcomes

The dataset contains twelve transcripts of semistructured interviews conducted between December 2019 and June 2020. It is drawn from two face-to-face interviews and telephone interviews conducted with 12 contemporary Chinese immigrants in New Zealand and Australia, who were operating in online business, trading with China. Six of them were classified as necessity-driven, who had to engage in entrepreneurship since they had no other options. Another six were opportunity-driven, who were involved in entrepreneurship as an option—the interview questions related to demographic and psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs. The questions asked also related to the immigration entrepreneurship process: motivation, strategies, and outcomes. Questions were asked and answered from an entrepreneurial ecosystem domain perspective, including accessible market, funding and finance, human capital, government policies, business support and social-culture perspectives, in relation to Australia, New Zealand and China.