Immigrant Entrepreneurship and the Institutional Context: A Theoretical Exploration

By R. Kloosterman. 2000

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. E. Engelen
2. R. Kloosterman
3. D. Ley
4. J. Rath

In Sociology and Political Science

1. E. Engelen
2. R. Kloosterman
3. D. Ley
4. J. Rath

Citations in the corpus

• Immigrant entrepreneurs in advanced economies: Mixed embeddedness further explored (2001, background): “Although urban policy is usually launched as a national initiative, individual city governments often have considerable leeway to implement and to enforce these national urban measures in ways they see ® t (Dieleman and Kloosterman 2000; PoleÁ se 2000).”
• 'Breaking in' and 'breaking out': A Weberian approach to entrepreneurial opportunities (2001, methodology): “1 This approach was developed in close co-operation with Robert Kloosterman and Jan Rath (see Kloosterman 2000; Kloosterman and Rath 2000).”
• Matching opportunities with resources: A framework for analysing (migrant) entrepreneurship from a mixed embeddedness perspective (2010, methodology): “We are, hence, applying insights from comparative political economy to construct an approach of immigrant entrepreneurship that enables us to explain cross-border differences as well as changes over time (Kloosterman 2000; Engelen 2004).”
• Creating opportunities. Policies aimed at increasing openings for immigrant entrepreneurs in the Netherlands (2003, background): “Judging by these figures, a rather optimistic picture emerges of recent trends in immigrant entrepreneurship in the Netherlands (cf. Rath and Kloosterman 2000).”
• Explaining Variations in Business Performance Among Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Canada (2006, background): “This British experience is projected more broadly by Kloosterman (2000) to the Western European welfare states where a somewhat regulated institutional structure ‘funnels immigrant entrepreneurs towards sunset activities in vacancy-chain businesses, competing fiercely in shrinking markets with littl”