This book provides an analytic framework for understanding how similar & different cultural, political, and economic characteristics of immigrants & of the industrial societies in which they settle influence the development & transformation of immigrant small busines.
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Howard E. Aldrich is Kenan Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he won the 2002 Carlyle Sitterson Award for Outstanding Teaching. He is chair of the Department of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Management in the Kenan Flagler Business School. In 2000, the Swedish Foundation of Small Business Research named him the Entrepreneurship Researcher of the Year and the Organization and Management Division of the Academy of Management presented him with an award for a Distinguished Career of Scholarly Achievement. His book, Organizations Evolving, won the Academy of Management George Terry Award in 1998-99.
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This review is from: Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant Business in Industrial Societies (Paperback)
This book is a reprinted edition of a book originally published in 1990 and no longer in print in its original edition.
It examines the phenomenon of minority business development in industrial societies. Everywhere immigrants settle in advanced Western societies, ethnic minority businesses flourish - whether they be Turkish tailors in Amsterdam, Moroccan grocers in Paris or Chinese restaurateurs in New York. Contributions by seventeen of the leading business researchers in the world challenge the conventional `wisdom' which claims that immigrants do well in business because their culture makes them entrepreneurial. Rather, the authors show how the development of a particular ethnic minority business is always the product of unique, historical circumstances. These include opportunities for newcomers, ethnic group characteristics, and strategies used to exploit entrepreneurial options. The authors also show that not all groups are equally interested in the business ownership option for advancement or equally successful at it. They explain why immigrants from diverse ethnic groups differentially attempt to go into business and why their fates differ. Using data on the success of various ethnic groups in business in the United States, the United Kingdom and France, the authors suggest policy options which might help the economic advancement of ethnic minority communities through business ownership. The volume is a blend of quantitative, historical and case study data supporting a well-argued thesis, drawing on the literature of a variety of disciplines and approaches. It is recomended for scholars studying race relations or involved in small business research, cross-cultural reseach and other related subjects.
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This review is from: Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant Business in Industrial Societies (Paperback)
Aldrich's review gives a good summary, but doesn't, to my mind, emphasize the unique contribution of this book which is looking at societal influences on immigrant entrepreneurship. There are oodles of studies of ethnic markets/ enclaves within societies, but this is one of the few that looks across societies. In particular, their result on the importance of red tape as a deterrent to ethnic entrepreneurship is striking and unique in the literature.
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- Ethnic Communities in Business: Strategies for economic survival (Comparative Ethnic and Race Relations) by Robin Ward in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Entrepreneurs in Cultural Context (School of American Research, advanced seminar series) by Sidney M. Greenfield in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- New Immigrants in New York by Nancy Foner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Between Two Cultures: Migrants and Minorities in Britain by James L. Watson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Black and African-American Studies) Volume 2 by Gunnar Myrdal in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Immigrant Business: The Economic, Political and Social Environment (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship) by Jan Rath in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York (Comparative and International Working-Class History) by Nancy L. Green in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Immigrants and the Industries of London, 15001700 by Lien Bich Luu on page 212, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Diasporic Citizenship: Haitian Americans in Transnational America by Michel S. Laguerre on page 128, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, And Technology In The Citrus Industry Of Palestine, 1890-1939 (Suny Series in Israeli Studies) by Nahum Karlinsky in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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