Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs

• Main Authors: Kwok-bun, Chan (Author), Wai-wan, Chan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: International Series on Consumer Science
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Entrepreneurship.; Population.; Sociology.; Emigration and immigration.; Social Sciences.; Migration.; Population Economics.; Sociology, general.

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-...

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.