Dynamic entrepreneurship: first and second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs in Dutch cities
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1. Verfasser: Rušinović, Katja (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press c2006
Schriftenreihe:IMISCOE dissertations
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Immigrants & self-employment -- - Methodology & research description -- - Beyond the ethnic and middleman market? -- - Informal versus formal social networks? -- - The continuing importance of transnational activities and networks? -- - Embeddedness & business success
"The nature of immigrant entrepreneurship is changing in Dutch society. Nowadays, many immigrant entrepreneurs start businesses in producer and personal services instead of more traditional sectors such as retail or hotel and catering. At the same time, a growing number of second-generation immigrants are setting up their own firms in the Netherlands. These second-generation immigrants-born and/or raised in the receiving country-are following different trajectories in comparison with first-generation immigrant entrepreneurs, indeed displaying a move away from traditional immigrant niches. Yet studies on second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs remain limited in both the Dutch and international literature on this subject. This study presents one of the first explicit comparisons between first and second-generation self-employed immigrants. The embeddedness of immigrants in local and transnational networks and the dynamics of the markets in which these entrepreneurs are active are examined based on in-depth interviews with immigrant entrepreneurs in Dutch cities. In doing so, this study provides a vivid, longitudinal view of first and second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs, their incorporation into Dutch society, their businesses and business development(s)"--Publisher's description
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (199 p.)
ISBN:142947257X
9053569723
9781429472579
9789048501694
9789053569726

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