Globalization effects nearly everyone and everything; and so, it does for networks and its different dimensions. Anna-Lena Bunse explores the network structure of migrant entrepreneurs in Bremen-Gröpelingen, and asks how informal networks for migrant entrepreneurs are structured and how migrant...

Introduction -- Background for the Empirical Analyses: Institutional Details and Data -- Centralized versus Decentralized Welfare Administration -- The Employment Effects of an Intensified Use of Benefit Sanctions -- The Effectiveness of Temporary Extra Jobs and Short-Term Training Programs --...

This contributed volume focuses on diasporans, their characteristics, networks, resources and activities in relation to international business and entrepreneurship. It presents an overview of diaspora concepts from an economic perspective, and analyzes the global-economic and societal effects...

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...

Language policies are increasingly acknowledged as being a necessary component of many decisions taken in the areas of the labor market, education, minority languages, mobility, and social inclusion of migrants. They can affect the democratic control of political organizations, and they can...

This volume explores the reasons behind, and impact of, the migration of South Asian nationals (from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bhutan and Maldives, Afghanistan and Myanmar) in the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Bahrain). The authors provide a...

This book focuses on International migration among the Chinese long before European colonists set foot on the Asian continent. It reveals why the Chinese moved across sea and land, seasonally or permanently, to other parts of Asia and the rest of the world to pursue economic opportunities and...

Introduction -- Part I -- The Idea and Practices of Citizenship in South Korea -- Threats or Leverage for Korean Civil Society in Contesting Globalization -- Part II -- The Migration of Elites in a Borderless World: Citizenship as an Incentive for Professionals and Managers? -- A Comparative...

Family Business Around the World -- The Complexity of Family Business -- The Role of Values in Family Business -- The Entrepreneurial Origins of Family Business -- Italian Migration to Australia and its Descendants -- The Families in the Case Studies and Their Business -- Capturing the Life...

Würdigung der politischen Verdienste von Friedrich List zu Afrika, Asien, Ozeanien und Südamerika -- Die Meinung von Friedrich List zur Migration und Kolonialpolitik -- Zwei unbekannte Patentanmeldungen von Friedrich List -- Neue Erkenntnisse von Friedrich List durch Karl Marx und Friedrich...