Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Lessons for Local Liabilities in Globalization from the Prato Case Study
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Concluding Remarks: The Benefits of Overcoming Local Liabilities
This concluding chapter summarizes the main results emerging from the book, and highlights the positive aspects to the phenomenon of new forces arriving in an industrial territory. The term native entrepreneur...
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Introduction
The international business and economics literature investigates the concepts of foreignness and outsidership as a source of liabilities for foreign firms. This introductory chapter discusses the genesis of this ...
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Liabilities of Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the Processes of Globalization
This chapter introduces the main issues addressed in the book by examining the liabilities of native and immigrant entrepreneurship in local contexts from a multidisciplinary perspective. Immigration leads to ...
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Smartphones and Outsidership in Prato’s Small Business Community
The theories of outsidership and insidership, and of foreignness, create contested discourse about the globalization of businesses, large and small. This chapter reviews the relationships between businesses, C...
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Ties that Bond: Mobile Phones and the Chinese in Prato
Increasingly, researchers are amazed by the extensive adoption of mobile phones by migrants worldwide (Benítez, 2006; Kluzer & Haché, 2009; Panagakos & Horst, 2006). This applies especially to the use of mobil...
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Chinese Migration to the New Europe: The Case of Prato
Through an analysis of Chinese migration to Europe, this edited volume examines the most pressing migration and integration issues facing many societies across the world today. These issues include the politic...
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Mobile Phones, Family and Personal Relationships: The Case of Indonesian Micro-entrepreneurs
In the Indonesian context, the use of mobile phones has had many effects on the economic as well as the social fabric of communities. However, these impacts have not been thoroughly examined, particularly in r...
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Collaborative Scenario Building: The Case of an ‘Advertainment’ Portal
Based on the ongoing development of a portal intended for use during the upcoming Olympics event in 2008, the portal’s main purpose is to allow volunteers, spectators, or any other participants of the Bei**g ...
