This exhaustive, interdisciplinary Handbook explores the phenomena of immigration and ethnic minority entrepreneurship in light of marked changes since the mid-twentieth century and the advent of easier, more affordable travel, and more open and integrated national economies. The international contributors, key experts in their respective fields, illustrate that myriad ethnic minorities exist across the globe, and that their entrepreneurship can and does significantly influence national economies. This important Handbook seeks to promote our understanding of which factors make for successful entrepreneurship, and, perhaps more importantly, how negative political consequences that members of successful entrepreneurial ethnic minorities might face can be minimized.
Foreword by Roy Sharp
Pt. I Introductory Chapters
1 Global entrepreneurship and transnationalism by Ivan Light 3
2 Ethnic economies, social capital and the economic theory of clubs by Craig S. Galbraith and Carlos L. Rodriguez and Curt H. Stiles 16
3 Ethnic entrepreneurship: a theoretical framework by Thierry Volery 30
4 The economics of co-ethnic employment: incentives, welfare effects and policy options by Frank A. G. den Butter and Enno Masurel and Robert H. J. Mosch 42
5 Understanding the diversity of immigrant entrepreneurial strategies by Catarina Reis Oliveira 61
6 Immigrant women in small business: biographies of becoming entrepreneurs by Caroline B. Brettell 83
7 Migrant entrepreneurship from the perspective of cultural diversity by Mediha Sahin and Peter Nijkamp and Tuzin Baycan-Levent 99
Pt. II Ethnic Minority Self-Employment in America
8 Ethnic business owners and their advisors: the effects of common ethnicity by Linda M. Dyer and Christopher A. Ross 117
9 Ukrainian farmers in Canada by Tom Allen 132
10 Business engagement of Chinese immigrants in Canada by Peter S. Li 144
11 Toward a rethinking of race, culture and the African American entrepreneur by Nicholas Maurice Young 157
12 Hispanic entrepreneurship in the United States by Frank Hoy 177
13 Challenges and opportunities for Hispanic entrepreneurs in the United States by Juan Holguin and Ernesto Gamboa and Frank Hoy 195
14 Korean immigrants in the United States by Pyong Gap Min 212
15 The Iranian ethnic economy in the United States by Mohsen Mobasher 228
16 Entrepreneurship among Filipino immigrants by J. Mark Munoz and Ilan Alon 249
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