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  title info:
    title: Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs
  name:
    name part: Kwok-bun, Chan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Wai-wan, Chan.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2011
    edition: 1.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 165 p. online resource.
  abstract: From nomadic traders in the ancient world to peddlers on the American frontier, the immigrant entrepreneur is a timeless figure. In our current age of globalization and multinational corporations, however, this experience is complicated by patterns of adaptation and transformation,relocation and re-invention. Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs draws extensively on the narratives of sixteensmall-to-medium business owners, born on the mainland, who have immigrated to Hong Kong and returned to China to establish their enterprises.For these executives, business and social life alike are marked by constant interplay of identities, such as individual identity/group membership and ancestral/immigrant identity. Yet as often as this juggling of these “selves”can be beneficial in the economic sphere, it can also lead to feelings of rootlessness and alienation. Writing with rare sensitivity, the authors synthesize insights from economic sociology, psychology, ethnic relations, and social networks, creating an exploration of social capital and social identity comparable to similar groups of businessmen and –women in other areas of the world. Among the topics examined: Life/work balance and the role of family. Transient identities: local, Hongkonger, Chinese, international. Social organizations as drivers of public and private life. Clashes between managerial generations. Ethnic businesses and government policy: prosperity, marginalization, and points in between. Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs will interest researchers in family sociology, economic sociology, and psychology, not only those who focus on this particular population but also those seeking unique perspectives into immigrant experience.
  table of contents: Shuttling Nomads in Mobile Times -- Research Methodology.-Identity, Interpersonal Networking, and Enterprise Management.-Seven Vignettes -- The Spatial Triangulation of Immigrant Entrepreneurship -- Association: Mediating Self-Identities -- The Double-Edged Sword: Mobility and Entrepreneurship -- Conclusion.
  note: by Chan Kwok-bun, Chan Wai-wan.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Entrepreneurship
  subject:
    topic: Population
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Migration
  subject:
    topic: Population Economics
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  subject:
    topic: Entrepreneurship
  classification: GN370
  classification: HB1951-2577
  classification: 304.8
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: International Series on Consumer Science
  identifier: 9781441996435
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9643-5
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    record creation date: 110722
    record change date: 20151204140832.0
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