African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4193

Full Length Research Paper

Immigrant women’s entrepreneurship: Is there a development model in Italy?

Mauro Paoloni
  • Mauro Paoloni
  • Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics - Roma Tre University, Silvio D’Amico Street, 77 – Rome, Italy.
  • Google Scholar
Marco Valeri
  • Marco Valeri
  • Faculty of Economics - Niccolò Cusano University Rome, Don Gnocchi Street, 00166 Rome, Italy.
  • Google Scholar
Paola Paoloni
  • Paola Paoloni
  • Faculty of Economics - Niccolò Cusano University Rome, Don Gnocchi Street, 00166 Rome, Italy.
  • Google Scholar


  •  Received: 09 March 2017
  •  Accepted: 25 May 2017
  •  Published: 14 August 2017

References

Alder P, Kwon S (2002). Social capital: prospects for a new concept. Acad. Manage. Rev. 27:17-41.

 

Aviram A (2009). Socialization for entrepreneurship: the second generation. J. Dev. Entrepr. 14(3):311-330. 
Crossref

 

BarNir A, Smith K (2002). Interfirm Alliance in the Small Business: The role of Social Network. J. Small Bus. Manage. 40(3):219-232.

 

Butler JS, Kozmetsky G (2004). Immigrant and minority entrepreneurship Praeger, Westport.

 

Carter S, Mwaura S (2015). Barriers to ethnic minority and women's enterprise: Existing evidence, policy tensions and unsettled questions. Int. Small Bus. J. 33(1):49-69.
Crossref

 

Chaganti R, Greene PG (2002). Who are the ethnic entrepreneurs? A study of entrepreneurs-ethnic involvement and business characteristics. J. Small Bus. Manage. 40(2):126-143.

 

Clydesale G (2008). Business immigrants and the entrepreneurial nexus. J. Int. Entrepreneurship 6:123-142.
Crossref

 

Das TK, Teng BS (2002). The dynamics of alliance conditions in the alliance development process. J. Manage. Stud. 39(5):725-756.
Crossref

 

De Clercq D, Honig B (2011). Entrepreneurship as an integrating mechanism for disadvantaged persons. Entrepreneurship Regional Dev. 23(5-6):353-372.
Crossref

 

Dickson P, Weaver KM (1997). Environmental Determinants and Individual Level Moderators of Alliances. J. Bus. Ethics 17(9/10):987-994.
Crossref

 

Flap H, Kumcu A, Bulderl B (2000). The Social Capital of Ethnic Entrepreneurs and their Business Success. In: Rath J (ed) Immigrant Businesses and their Economic, Politico-Institutional and Social Environment, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Macmillan Press.
Crossref

 

Gulati R, Gargiulo M (1999). Where do inter-organizational networks come from? Am. J. Sociol. 104(5):1439-1493.
Crossref

 

Gulati R (1998). Alliances and networks. Strateg. Manage. J. 19:293–317.
Crossref

 

Gulati R, Singh H (1998). The Architecture of Cooperation: Managing Coordination Costs and Appropriation Concerns in Strategic Alliances. Admin. Sci. Quart. 43:781-814.
Crossref

 

Horwitz SK, Horwitz IB (2007) The Effects of Team Diversity on Team Outcomes: A Meta-Analytic Review of Team Demography. J. Manage. 33:987-1015.
Crossref

 

Kloosterman RC (2010). Ethnic Entrepreneurship. In: Hutchison R (ed) Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publications.

 

Kloosterman RC, Rath J (2001). Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Advanced Economies: Mixed Embeddedness Further Explored. J. Ethnic Migration Stud. 27(2):189-202.
Crossref

 

Labrianidis L, Hatziprokopiou P (2010). Migrant entrepreneurship in Greece: diversity of pathways for emerging ethnic business communities in Thessaloniki. Int. Migr. Integr. 11:193-217.
Crossref

 

Levie G (2007). Immigration, in-migration, ethnicity and entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom. Small Bus. Econ. 28:143-169.
Crossref

 

Light I, Bhachu P (2004) (eds.), Immigration and entrepreneurship. Culture, capital and ethnic networks. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick.

 

Lin X, Tao S (2012). Transnational entrepreneurs: characteristics, drivers, and success factors. J. Int. Entrepreneurship 10(1):50-69.
Crossref

 

Masurel E, Nijkamp P, Tastan M, Vindigni G (2002). Motivations and Performance Conditions for Ethnic Entrepreneurship. Growth Change 33(2):238-260.
Crossref

 

Paoloni P (2011). La dimensione relazionale delle imprese femminili. Franco Angeli, Milano.

 

Park SH, Zhou D (2005). Firm heterogeneity and competitive dynamics in alliance formation. Acad. Manage. Rev. 30(3):531-554.
Crossref

 

Parkhe A, Wasserman S, Ralston DA (2006). New frontiers in network theory development. Acad. Manage. Rev. 31(3):560-568.
Crossref

 

Powell W (1990). Neither market nor hierarchy: network forms of organization. In: Staw B, Cummings LL, Research in Organizational Behavior, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. 12:295-336.

 

Rajiman R, Tienda M (2000). Immigrants pathways to business ownership: A comparative ethnic perspective. Int. Migration Rev. 34(3):682-706.
Crossref

 

Rapporto Idos (2015). Rapporto Immigrazione e Imprenditoria. Idos edizioni.

 

Rath J (2000). Immigrant Businesses and their Economic, Politico-Institutional and Social Environment. In: Rath J (ed) The Economic, Political and Social Environment, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Macmillan Press.
Crossref

 

Rath J, Kloosterman R (2000). Outsiders' business: a critical review of research on immigrant entrepreneurship. Int. Migration Rev. 34(3):657-681.
Crossref

 

Rueda-Armengot C, Peris-Ortiz M (2012). The Emigrant Entrepreneur: a Theoretical Framework and Empirical Approximation. Int. Entrepr. Manage. J. 8(1):99-118.
Crossref

 

Rusinovic K (2007). Moving Between Markets? Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Different Markets. Int. J. Entrepreneurial Behav. Res. 14(6):440-454.
Crossref

 

Saxena G (2005). Relationships, networks and the learning regions. Tourism Manage. 26(2):277-289.
Crossref

 

Smallbone D, Bertotti M, Ekanem I (2005). Diversification in Ethnic Minority Business: the Case of Asians in London's Creative Industries. J. Small Bus. Enterprise Dev. 12(1):41-56.
Crossref

 

Soda G, Usai A, Zaheer A (2004). Network memory: The influence of past and current networks on performance. Acad. Manage. J. 47:893-906.
Crossref

 

Valenzuela A (2001). Day labourers as entrepreneurs? J. Ethnic Migration Stud. 27(2):335-352.
Crossref

 

Valeri M (2016). Networking and cooperation practices in italian tourism business. J. Tour. Heritage Serv. Market. 2(1): 30-35.

 

Valeri M, Baiocco S (2012). The integration of a Swedish minority in the hotel business culture: the case study Riva del Sole. Tourism Rev. 67(1):51-60.
Crossref

 

Valeri M, Paoloni P (2016). Capitale relazionale e sviluppo sostenibile nelle micro e piccole imprese di servizi. In: Paoloni (ed) Studi di genere: il mondo femminile in un percorso interdisciplinare, Edicusano editore, Roma.

 

Vinogradov E, Gabelko M (2010). Entrepreneurship among Russian immigrants in Norway. J. Dev. Entrepr. 15(4):461-479.
Crossref

 

Waldinger R (2000). The Economic Theory of Ethnic Conflict: a Critique and Reformulation. In: Rath J (ed) Immigrant Business: The Economic, Political and Social Environment, Macmillan, Basingstoke.
Crossref

 

Wang CL, Altinay L (2012). Social Embeddedness, Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Growth in Ethnic Minority Small Businesses in the UK. Int. Small Bus. J. 38(3):3-23.
Crossref

 

Watson R, Keasey K, Baker M (2000). Small Firm Financial Contracting and Immigrant Entrepreneurship. In: Rath J (ed) Immigrant Business: The Economic, Political and Social Environment, Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 70-90.
Crossref

 

Yin X, Wu J, Tsai W (2012). When Unconnected Others Connect: Does Degree of Brokerage Persist After the Formation of a Multipartner Alliance. Organ. Sci. 23(6):1682-1699.
Crossref

 

Zhou M (2004). Revisiting Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Convergencies, Controversies, and Conceptual Advancements. Int. Migration Rev. 38(3):1040-1074.
Crossref