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Kohnert, Dirk - 2010

The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chinese's supposed...

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Chinese Commodity Imports in Ghana and Senegal: Demystifying Chinese Business Strength in Urban West Africa

Marfaing, Laurence; Thiel, Alena - 2011

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, independent entrepreneurial migrants from China have been increasingly flocking to Africa in search of greener pastures. This paper scrutinizes the empirical foundations of the increasingly hostile discourses of African traders regarding the...

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Strategische Gruppen und Staatskapazität: Das Beispiel der Privatunternehmer in China

Heberer, Thomas - 2002

transformatorischen und strategischen Potenziale eingeht. Schließlich wird erörtert, in welcher Weise Unternehmer Staatskapazität … Kapazität beiträgt bzw. beitragen. Die Strategie der Unternehmer ist dabei interessengeleitet in dem Sinne, dass sie im … transformatorischen Potenzials der strategischen Gruppe(n) Unternehmer untersucht, ehe Rückschlüsse auf die Bedeutung des Agierens der …

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Migrant entrepreneurs and credit constraints under labour market discrimination

Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - 2011

We use a unique data of representative migrants and urban local workers in 15 Chinese cities to investigate entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one;...

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