ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the translocal nature of the business activities of polish entrepreneurs in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom, particularly in relation to their involvement with family, friends and other supporting institutions. It explores the role that the city plays in these locallocal exchanges and relationship that this creates between the entrepreneur and the city. The chapter first discusses the concept of translocal entrepreneurship is developed as an alternative to transnational entrepreneurship. Second, the chapter explores the methodology employed in this research is explained. The chapter presents the responses of polish migrant entrepreneurs in the West Midlands are explained and analyzed in relation to the concepts of family firms and translocalism. The roles of family, co-ethnics and supporting networks in polish entrepreneurship in the West Midlands are explored. The chapter makes an important contribution to research into family ethnic entrepreneurship and the relationship of migrant entrepreneurs with the city.
