  The authors hypothesised that export develops in the network of business
collaborations that are embedded in migration status. In that, collaborative
networking positively affects export performance and immigrant entrepreneurs
enjoy higher collaborative networking than native entrepreneurs due to their
advantage of being embedded in the home and the host country. Moreover, the
advantage of being an immigrant promotes the benefits of collaborative
networking for export compared to those of native entrepreneurs. A total of
47,200 entrepreneurs starting, running and owning firms in 71 countries were
surveyed by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and analysed through the
hierarchical linear modelling technique. Collaborative networking facilitated
export and migration status influenced entrepreneur networking, in that,
immigrant entrepreneurs had a higher level of collaborative networking than
native entrepreneurs. Consequently, immigrant entrepreneurs seemed to have
benefited from their network collaborations more than their native counterparts
did. This study sheds light on how immigrant entrepreneur network
collaborations can be effective for their exporting.
