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New Urban Economic Agents : A Comparative Analysis of High-Performance New Entrepreneurs
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- Kourtit, Karima (author)
- KTH,Urbana och regionala studier,Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
- Nijkamp, P. (author)
- Suzuki, S. (author)
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- 2016-12-22
- 2016
- English.
- In: Quaestiones Geographicae. - : Adam Mickiewicz University Press. - 0137-477X .- 2081-6383. ; 35:4, s. 5-22
- Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- 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.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business (hsv//eng)
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- diversity
- economic spillovers
- economic vitality
- entrepreneurship
- global diaspora economy
- migrant entrepreneurs
- urban development
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