- Tytuł:
- New urban economic agents: a comparative analysis of high-performance new entrepreneurs
- Autorzy:
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Kourtit, Karima
Nijkamp, Peter
Suzuki, Soushi - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1052908.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2016-12-15
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
- Tematy:
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economic vitality
urban development
entrepreneurship
migrant entrepreneurs
diversity
global diaspora economy
economic spillovers - Opis:
- Migrants are often the carriers of new skills and original abilities. This study focuses on the importance of ‘new urban entrepreneurship’ – in particular, ethnic or migrant business firms – as a major driver of creative and urban dynamics and economic vitality in urban agglomerations. The paper offers a general account of both backgrounds and socio-economic implications of migrant entrepreneurship in large agglomerations and highlights the socio-economic heterogeneity in motivation and performance among different groups of migrant entrepreneurs. This demographic-cultural diversity prompts intriguing questions about differences in business performance among distinct groups of migrant entrepreneurs, even in the same ethnic group. In the paper, a recently developed and amended version of data envelopment analysis (DEA), viz. super-efficiency, is presented and applied to a group of Moroccan entrepreneurs in four large cities in the Netherlands. The main research aim is (i) to identify the best-performing firms (so-called ‘entrepreneurial heroes’) from a broad management and business perspective, while (ii) the background of our findings are more thoroughly analysed. The paper ends with some general concluding remarks on urban business strategies.
- Źródło:
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Quaestiones Geographicae; 2016, 35, 4; 5-22
0137-477X
2081-6383 - Pojawia się w:
- Quaestiones Geographicae
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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