Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Lessons for Local Liabilities in Globalization from the Prato Case Study

Springer International Publishing AG

07/2018

217

Mole

Inglês

9783319829869

15 a 20 dias

454

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Introduction.- Liabilities of native and immigrant entrepreneurship in the process of globalization.- Chinese immigration to Italy and economic relations with the homeland: A multiscalar perspective.- A social accounting matrix for Prato: Interrelating the Chinese migrant community and the provincial economy.- Ethnography of the fast fashion community: Chinese entrepreneurs in Prato.- Italian-schooled Chinese migrant youth in Prato: The liability of outsidership and social identity formation.- Smartphones and outsidership in Prato's small business community.- Liabilities of foreignness and of outsidership in the evolution of immigrant Chinese entrepreneurship.- Liabilities in the Prato's industrial district: An analysis of Italian and Chinese firm failures.- The mechanism of sustained immigrant entrepreneurship: Wenzhounese immigrants in Italy.- Understanding Chinese immigrants in Prato's industrial district: Benefits to local entrepreneurs.- Concluding remarks: The benefits of overcoming local liabilities.
Local liability;Immigrant entrepreneurship;Chinese immigrant firms;Liability of foreignness;Liability of outsidership;Prato industrial district;Chinese manufacturing entrepreneurship;Migrant entrepreneurship in Italy;Wenzhou migrants in Italy