Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship Lessons for Local Liabilities in Globalization from the Prato Case Study /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Guercini, Simone (Editor), Dei Ottati, Gabi (Editor), Baldassar, Loretta (Editor), Johanson, Graeme (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Entrepreneurship.; Globalization.; Markets.; Industrial organization.; Social policy.; Emigration and immigration.; Business and Management.; Emerging Markets/Globalization.; Migration.; Industrial Organization.; Social Policy.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the issue of “local liabilities”, drawing on close analysis of the case of Chinese migrants and the Italian industrial district of Prato in order to elucidate the problems, or liabilities, that derive from the separation between natives and immigrants...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Liabilities of native and immigrant entrepreneurship in the process of globalization
• Chinese immigration to Italy and economic relations with the homeland: A multiscalar perspective
• A social accounting matrix for Prato: Interrelating the Chinese migrant community and the provincial economy
• Ethnography of the fast fashion community: Chinese entrepreneurs in Prato
• Italian-schooled Chinese migrant youth in Prato: The liability of outsidership and social identity formation
• Smartphones and outsidership in Prato’s small business community
• Liabilities of foreignness and of outsidership in the evolution of immigrant Chinese entrepreneurship
• Liabilities in the Prato’s industrial district: An analysis of Italian and Chinese firm failures
• The mechanism of sustained immigrant entrepreneurship: Wenzhounese immigrants in Italy
• Understanding Chinese immigrants in Prato’s industrial district: Benefits to local entrepreneurs
• Concluding remarks: The benefits of overcoming local liabilities.