Dr. Tenzin Yeshi

Research Assistant

Contact:

Enrique-Schmidt-Stra?e 1
D-28359 Bremen
WiWi 1, Room A 2220

Phone: +49 (0) 421 218 - 99528
tenzin(at)uni-bremen.de

Research Interest:

? Refugee Entrepreneurship

Tenzin Yeshi earned his PhD from the Chair in Small Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of Bremen in November 2024. He holds an M.Phil in Economics and a Master in Applied Economics from Christ University, Bangalore. His research focuses on refugee and displaced migrant entrepreneurship through qualitative methods, addressing the challenges and exploring practical solutions.

He has also been involved in projects that support refugee entrepreneurship. He contributed to the Erasmus? funded VIFRE project, establishing virtual incubators for refugee entrepreneurs. He was also involved in a research project investigating Ukrainian refugee entrepreneurs in Moldova, which GIZ funded as part of the Digital Transformation of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Eastern Partnership Countries (DTT4SME) project.

Since 11/2024	Research Associate (Postdoc) at Chair in Small Business & Entrepreneurship (LEMEX) Universit?t Bremen (Germany)
04/19 - 10/2024	Ph.D. Candidate at Chair in Small Business & Entrepreneurship (LEMEX) University Bremen (Germany)
06/2016 – 04/2018	Master of Philosophy in Economics Christ University (India)
06/2014 – 04/2016	Master of Applied Economics Christ University (India)
06/2011 – 04/2014	Bachelor of Economics Loyola College (India)

Term	Courses	ECTS	Language	Function
WiSe 23/24	Pre-Seminar Entrepreneurship and SME-Management	6 ECTS	English	Tutor
SoSe 24	Seminar on Entrepreneurship and SME Management III	6 ECTS	English	Tutor
SoSe 24	Startup Preschool: Migrant Entrepreneurship	3 ECTS	English	Tutor
WiSe 24/25	Startup Preschool: Migrant Entrepreneurship	3 ECTS	English	Tutor

Academic Journals	Yeshi, T., Harima, A., & Freiling, J. (2022, in-press). Resilience on an Emotional Rollercoaster: Refugee Entrepreneurship under Adversity. European Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.009
Bücher/Kapitel	Yeshi, T. (2024). “Survival of the Fittest: Refugees as Entrepreneurs. De Gruyter Handbook of Migrant Entrepreneurship, (pp. 173-185). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & CoKG. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111025520-009. Jürgens, C., Ramalingam, A., Zarembski, R., Harima, A., & Yeshi, T. (2022). Relational Dynamics within Refugee Business Incubators: Bridging Refugee Entrepreneurs to the Host-Country Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. In Disadvantaged Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-724620220000014007. Yeshi, T. (2022). “Home Away From Home”: Displaced Migrant Entrepreneurship in Times of Covid-19. In Disadvantaged Minorities in Business (pp. 205-224). Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-97079-6_10 Jürgens, C., Ramalingam, A., Zarembski, R., Harima, A. and Yeshi, T. (2022), "Relational Dynamics within Refugee Business Incubators: Bridging Refugee Entrepreneurs to the Host-Country Entrepreneurial Ecosystem", Pickernell, D.G., Battisti, M., Dann, Z. and Ekinsmyth, C. (Ed.) Disadvantaged Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research, Vol. 14), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 147-169.
Konferenzen	Livelihood of Tibetan Winter Itinerant Sweater Traders in Madhya Pradesh ISBN: 978-605-82290-2-0 (Conference Proceedings).

Attendance at conferences

Annual research conference on the Future of Borders, organized by the Center on Forced Displacement, 23-24 April 2024, Boston University, USA.
CERC Migration Working Group: Refugees and Forced Migration, 30 January 2024, Toronto Metropolitan University, Ontario, Canada (Hybrid Conference).
7th Entrepreneurship for the XXI Century International Conference, 26-27 October 2023, University of Warsaw, Poland.
83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), 4-8 August 2023, Boston, USA.
“Migrant entrepreneurship: Developments at the intersection of policy and practice”, at Bologna University, Italy, 27-28 April 2023.
RENT 2021 conference “Inclusive Entrepreneurship,” 18-19 November 2021, organized by EIASM in Tartu, Finland.
EURAM 2021 conference “Reshaping Capitalism for a Sustainable World,” 16-18 June 2021, organized by EURAM in collaboration with Université du Québec à Montréal (Virtual).
EURAM 2020 conference “The business of now: the future starts here,” 04-06 December 2020, organized by EURAM in collaboration with Trinity College, Ireland (Virtual).
Exploring entrepreneurial ventures, family firms, and hidden champions - 6th International Conference on Mittelstand, 15-17 November 2020, organized by the Business School, Manheim University, Germany (Virtual).
Advancement in migrant and refugee entrepreneurship research for European early career researchers’ workshop, 23 September 2020, organized by Centre for Research in ethnic minority entrepreneurship (CR?ME), Aston University, UK (Virtual).
5^th International Academic Conference on Social Science, Multidisciplinary and European Studies, 12-14 September 2017, in Vienna (Austria).
3^rd Young Tibetan Research Scholar’s Conference, 16-18 August 2017, in Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh), India.
Bid Debates, New Methods and Old lessons in India’s Development organized by the Department of Economics 2016, Christ University, Bangalore, India.

Awards

2nd place for the Research Paper at the European Management Journal Awards, 2024 (Link)
Outstanding Author Contribution by Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023 (Link)

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