Handbook of Research on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship: A Co-evolutionary View on Resource Management

COPYRIGHT......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
Foreword......Page 13
PART I INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS......Page 14
1 Global entrepreneurship and transnationalism......Page 16
2 Ethnic economies, social capital and the economic theory of clubs......Page 29
3 Ethnic entrepreneurship: a theoretical framework......Page 43
4 The economics of co-ethnic employment: incentives, welfare effects and policy options......Page 55
5 Understanding the diversity of immigrant entrepreneurial strategies......Page 74
6 Immigrant women in small business: biographies of becoming entrepreneurs......Page 96
7 Migrant entrepreneurship from the perspective of cultural diversity......Page 112
PART II ETHNIC MINORITY SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA......Page 128
8 Ethnic business owners and their advisors: the effects of common ethnicity......Page 130
9 Ukrainian farmers in Canada......Page 145
10 Business engagement of Chinese immigrants in Canada......Page 157
11 Toward a rethinking of race, culture and the African American entrepreneur......Page 170
12 Hispanic entrepreneurship in the United States......Page 190
13 Challenges and opportunities for Hispanic entrepreneurs in the United States......Page 208
14 Korean immigrants in the United States......Page 225
15 The Iranian ethnic economy in the United States......Page 241
16 Entrepreneurship among Filipino immigrants......Page 262
17 Minority entrepreneurship in New York......Page 280
18 Non-economic effects of ethnic entrepreneurship......Page 292
19 The rise and fall of specialized small business investment: taking the taxi to oblivion......Page 302
20 Does ethnicity matter? A study of the strategic intent of Internet ventures founded by ethnic and ‘non-ethnic’ entrepreneurs......Page 322
PART III ETHNIC MINORITY SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE......Page 334
21 Ethnic entrepreneurship in European cities: a comparative study of Amsterdam......Page 336
22 Temporal and geographical variations in ethnic minority business: thirty years of research in the United Kingdom......Page 350
23 Italians in Britain: ‘Britalian culture entrepreneurs’ revisited......Page 373
24 South Asian entrepreneurship in Britain: a critique of the ethnic enclave economy debate......Page 388
25 Access to finance by ethnic minority entrepreneurs in the UK......Page 403
26 Ethnic minority business and the employment of illegal immigrants in Birmingham......Page 418
27 Immigrant entrepreneurs in Austria......Page 438
28 Turkish immigrant entrepreneurs in Finland......Page 446
29 Immigrant entrepreneurs in Germany......Page 458
30 Migrant entrepreneurship in Germany......Page 477
31 Ethnicity, gender and entrepreneurship: Turkish entrepreneurs in Germany......Page 501
32 Immigrant entrepreneurs in Hamburg......Page 524
33 Chinese entrepreneurs in Hungary......Page 547
34 Roma entrepreneurs in Hungary......Page 568
PART IV ETHNIC MINORITY SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN ASIA......Page 586
35 Ethnic entrepreneurship and the internationalization of Chinese capitalism in Asia......Page 588
36 Dalit entrepreneurs on the edges of caste and class: ethnic minority entrepreneurship in India......Page 612
37 Immigrant entrepreneurs and the Israeli welfare state: institutional support and institutional constraints......Page 628
38 Immigrants from the former Soviet Union as ethnic entrepreneurs in Israel......Page 643
39 Small business among Japan’s Buraku people......Page 658
40 Korean minority entrepreneurs in Japan......Page 666
41 Clan associations of Singapore and their roles in the small business sector......Page 682
PART V ETHNIC MINORITY SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE......Page 692
42 Ethnic entrepreneurship in South Africa: an embedded approach to the study among various ethnic groups......Page 694
43 Entrepreneurship among Ghanaians in South Africa......Page 720
44 Exploring the relationship between culture, communication and entrepreneurship in New Zealand......Page 733
45 Immigrant cultural capital in business: the New Zealand experience......Page 742
46 Enterprising Indian women in New Zealand......Page 757
47 Lebanese entrepreneurs in New Zealand......Page 767
PART VI COMPARATIVE STUDY......Page 794
48 A comparative, exploratory investigation into the perceptions of internationalizing firms in Singapore and the UK......Page 796
49 Towards a synthesis: a model of immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship......Page 816
Index......Page 826