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Development and pilot evaluation of the Hands On Parent Empowerment (HOPE) project ‐ a parent education programme to establish socially disadvantaged parents as facilitators of pre...
Leung, Cynthia; Tsang, Sandra; Dean, Suzanne; Chow, Paully - In: Journal of Children's Services 4 (2009) 1, pp. 21-32
Socially disadvantaged parents often concentrate on providing for their children instead of stimulating them to learn because of their own low self‐efficacy as learning agents. This study describes the development and pilot evaluation of a programme designed to empower new immigrant parents in...
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Entrepreneurial migration: characteristics, causes and effects
Thi Thanh Thai, Mai; Turkina, Ekaterina - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 7 (2013) 3, pp. 188-195
essential steps of the entrepreneurial process by immigrants (i.e. host country choice, entrepreneurial engagement, new venture …
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The economic embeddedness of immigrant enterprise in Britain
Barrett, Giles; Jones, Trevor; McEvoy, David; … - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 8 (2002) 1/2, pp. 11-31
Immigrant‐owned business in Britain is reviewed in the light of both cultural and structural economic perspectives. The latter view is emphasised. Concentration in trades which are in decline, or are labour intensive, or both, creates acute competitive pressures which are exacerbated by the...
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Mixed embeddedness
Peters, Nonja - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 8 (2002) 1/2, pp. 32-53
Kloosterman, van der Leun and Rath assert they conceptualised the “mixed embeddedness” hypothesis to overcome the shortcomings characteristic of earlier theoretical models of immigrant business enterprise. This article assesses the relevance of this theoretical perspective to explaining...
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How innovative are Dutch immigrant entrepreneurs?
Engelen, Ewald - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 8 (2002) 1/2, pp. 69-92
Asks how innovative Dutch immigrant entrepreneurs are. Since the mid‐1980s the number of immigrant firms has more than tripled. This coincides with a huge increase in the number of start‐ups in the Dutch economy as a whole. However, international comparisons show that this increase has not...
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Economic associations of immigrant self‐employment in Canada
Hiebert, Daniel - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 8 (2002) 1/2, pp. 93-112
In the last 30 years or so we have seen a proliferation of research projects on immigrants and non‐white minorities in … correspondence between the niches where immigrants and minorities find work, and those where they become entrepreneurs. Immigrants …
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From four‐course Peking duck to take‐away Singapore rice
Leung, Maggi W.H. - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 8 (2002) 1/2, pp. 134-147
Draws on the concept of “mixed embeddedness” to challenge the popular culturalistic view that Chinese migrants enter the catering business simply because they are Chinese. Based on qualitative interview results and observations from fieldwork conducted in German cities, illustrates first the...
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Business opportunity or food pornography?
Lin Pang, Ching - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 8 (2002) 1/2, pp. 148-161
Chinese immigrant small businesses, predominantly clustered in the catering sector. Some studies examining Chinese immigrants … social mobility, thereby overcoming the general constraints facing immigrants such as insufficient financial capital, low …
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Conclusion The economic context, embeddedness and immigrant entrepreneurs
Razin, Eran - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 8 (2002) 1/2, pp. 162-167
Concludes that the impact of the economic context on entrepreneurship among immigrants is group specific. The concepts … embeddedness, which incorporates both roles of co‐ethnic networks and linkages between immigrants and the broader society, could …
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Immigrant transnational entrepreneurs in New York
Morawska, Ewa - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 10 (2004) 5, pp. 325-348
causality is applied to the analysis of the relationship between immigrants' transnational entrepreneurship and their … assimilation to the host society. Depending on immigrants' economic and sociocultural resources and their location in the economic … the types of business pursued by these immigrants (there are also in New York local Chinese and Dominican entrepreneurs …
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