Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Lessons for Local Liabilities in Globalization from the Prato Case Study - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Introduction.- Liabilities of native and immigrant entrepreneurship in the process of globalization.- Chinese immigration to Italy and economic relations with the homeland: A multiscalar perspective.- A social accounting matrix for Prato: Interrelating the Chinese migrant community and the provincial economy.- Ethnography of the fast fashion community:  Chinese entrepreneurs in Prato.- Italian-schooled Chinese migrant youth in Prato: The liability of outsidership and social identity formation.- Smartphones and outsidership in Prato's small business community.- Liabilities of foreignness and of outsidership in the evolution of immigrant Chinese entrepreneurship.- Liabilities in the Prato's industrial district: An analysis of Italian and Chinese firm failures.- The mechanism of sustained immigrant entrepreneurship: Wenzhounese immigrants in Italy.- Understanding Chinese immigrants in Prato's industrial district: Benefits to local entrepreneurs.- Concluding remarks: The benefits of overcoming local liabilities.

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