Ethnicity And Entrepreneurship In America
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| Author | : Ivan Hubert Light |
| Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780202368443 |
The authors have assembled a vast body of census data to address cutting-edge issues in entrepreneurship, immigration, urban studies, economic sociology, and social policy. In a novel research formulation, they compare the 272 largest metropolitan regions of the United States in respect to the entrepreneurship of various ethno-racial groups. Such a method permits them to vary the local economic environment and resource profiles of all major categories. Virtually all previously available data on these issues relied upon averages and overlooked inter-local variation within and among groups. Interpreting the voluminous data, which summarize the economic behavior of 100 million people, Ivan Light and Carolyn Rosenstein first explain resources theory (a supply-side formulation), providing a complete review of the large theoretical literature on immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship. They then address the other major theoretical concerns in the existing literature of social science, among them the interactionist theory of entrepreneurship and the possible effect of disadvantage upon entrepreneurship. The latter issue, an important and long-standing one, receives careful and decisive examination that eventuates in a theoretically elegant solution. A final chapter discusses social policy. The authors contrast liberal and conservative assumptions about entrepreneurship, faulting both. Locating entrepreneurship outside the usual framework of manpower policy, the authors make a case for a supply-side policy science of entrepreneurship that is neutral in political implication. Light and Rosenstein then suggest how policy might proceed to integrate two generations of social science research. Their closing discussion relates policy implications to the economic development of inner cities in America.
| Author | : Monica DeHart |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2010-02-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0804769338 |
Ethnic Entrepreneurs examines how diverse groups, including indigenous communities in Latin America and Latino communities in the United States, have become visible and valuable as agents of economic development in Latin America in recent years.
| Author | : Zulema Valdez |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2011-02-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0804773211 |
With a focus on a diverse group of Latino entrepreneurs in the Houston area, Valdez explores how class, gender, race, and ethnicity shape Latino entrepreneurs' capacity to succeed in business in the United States.
| Author | : Juliet E. K. Walker |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0807832413 |
In this wide-ranging study Stephen Foster explores Puritanism in England and America from its roots in the Elizabethan era to the end of the seventeenth century. Focusing on Puritanism as a cultural and political phenomenon as well as a religious movement, Foster addresses parallel developments on both sides of the Atlantic and firmly embeds New England Puritanism within its English context. He provides not only an elaborate critque of current interpretations of Puritan ideology but also an original and insightful portrayal of its dynamism. According to Foster, Puritanism represented a loose and incomplete alliance of progressive Protestants, lay and clerical, aristocratic and humble, who never decided whether they were the vanguard or the remnant. Indeed, in Foster's analysis, changes in New England Puritanism after the first decades of settlement did not indicate secularization and decline but instead were part of a pattern of change, conflict, and accomodation that had begun in England. He views the Puritans' own claims of declension as partisan propositions in an internal controversy as old as the Puritan movement itself. The result of these stresses and adaptations, he argues, was continued vitality in American Puritanism during the second half of the seventeenth century. Foster draws insights from a broad range of souces in England and America, including sermons, diaries, spiritual autobiographies, and colony, town, and court records. Moreover, his presentation of the history of the English and American Puritan movements in tandem brings out the fatal flaws of the former as well as the modest but essential strengths of the latter.
| Author | : Zulema Valdez |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2018-10-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1351673947 |
Intersectionality and Ethnic Entrepreneurship brings together a group of eminent and up-and-coming young scholars who apply an intersectional perspective to the study of ethnic entrepreneurship. Against the traditional approach’s emphasis on ethnicity and its primacy, which tends to conflate ethnicity with other social groupings (i.e., social class), considers their effect as an additive or secondary consequence only (i.e., gender), or ignores their influence altogether (i.e., race), the studies in this volume recognize that multiple dimensions of identity intermix to condition entrepreneurial outcomes. Starting with the premise that systems of oppression and privilege, specifically capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy, are endemic to the American social structure, the works in this volume recognize that these interlocking systems of inequality condition the life chances of entrepreneurs from diverse social locations differently, even among members of the same ethnic group. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
| Author | : Ivan Hubert Light |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1973-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780520024854 |
| Author | : John Sibley Butler |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 16 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : M. Mark Stolarik |
| Publisher | : Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Toronto : Associated University Presses |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Twelve distinguished authors present some of the best current scholarship in the field of inter-group relations.
| Author | : Leo Paul Dana |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 856 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Explores the phenomena of immigration and ethnic minority entrepreneurship in light of marked changes since mid-twentieth century and the advent of easier, affordable travel, and open and integrated national economies. This book illustrates myriad ethnic minorities exist across the globe, and their entrepreneurship influence national economies.
| Author | : Robert W. Fairlie |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2010-08-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0262260670 |
A comprehensive analysis of racial disparities and the determinants of entrepreneurial performance—in particular, why Asian-owned businesses on average perform relatively well and why black-owned businesses typically do not. Thirteen million people in the United States—roughly one in ten workers—own a business. And yet rates of business ownership among African Americans are much lower and have been so throughout the twentieth century. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, businesses owned by African Americans tend to have lower sales, fewer employees and smaller payrolls, lower profits, and higher closure rates. In contrast, Asian American-owned businesses tend to be more successful. In Race and Entrepreneurial Success, minority entrepreneurship authorities Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb examine racial disparities in business performance. Drawing on the rarely used, restricted-access Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO) dataset compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, Fairlie and Robb examine in particular why Asian-owned firms perform well in comparison to white-owned businesses and black-owned firms typically do not. They also explore the broader question of why some entrepreneurs are successful and others are not. After providing new comprehensive estimates of recent trends in minority business ownership and performance, the authors examine the importance of human capital, financial capital, and family business background in successful business ownership. They find that a high level of startup capital is the most important factor contributing to the success of Asian-owned businesses, and that the lack of startup money for black businesses (attributable to the fact that nearly half of all black families have less than $6,000 in total wealth) contributes to their relative lack of success. In addition, higher education levels among Asian business owners explain much of their success relative to both white- and African American-owned businesses. Finally, Fairlie and Robb find that black entrepreneurs have fewer opportunities than white entrepreneurs to acquire valuable pre-business work experience through working in family businesses.
