Overview
- Analyzes the phenomenon of immigrant entrepreneurship
- Draws on a detailed empirically based case study on Chinese immigrant firms in an Italian industrial district
- Presents the concept of local liability, which offers an original perspective on globalization
- Adopts a multidisciplinary approach, with perspectives from business and industrial economics, anthropology, and sociology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About the editors
Gabi Dei Ottati is a Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Florence and a member of the European Research Centre on Regional and Local Development. Her main research interests include industrial organization and economic development, with a special focus on Italy and industrial districts. Having collaborated for many years with Giacomo Becattini, the revitalizer of the Marshallian industrial district concept, she is part of the Florence school of local development.
Loretta Baldassar is a Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia, and Adjunct Principal Research Fellow at the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. Her research interests focus on transnational migrants, families, and caregiving, including the question of generations. Loretta received her PhD from the University of Western Australia.
Graeme Johanson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Monash University. His research interests include social informatics, virtual communities, and e-democracy, with a focus on migration and transnationalism. Graeme received his PhD in economics from Monash University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Book Subtitle: Lessons for Local Liabilities in Globalization from the Prato Case Study
Editors: Simone Guercini, Gabi Dei Ottati, Loretta Baldassar, Graeme Johanson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44111-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44110-8Published: 09 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82986-9Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44111-5Published: 31 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 217
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Emerging Markets/Globalization, Entrepreneurship, Migration, Industrial Organization, Social Policy, Regional and Cultural Studies