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Author: Ivan Light Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520365054 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 236
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
Author: Ivan Light Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520365054 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 236
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
Author: Ivan H. Light Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Examines the sociological causes for differences in small business formation and other personal finance trends among Chinese and Japanese immigrant communities and African-Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Incorporating both a broad overview of the experience of these minority groups in the face of discriminatory practices with an examination of historical data, the authors review the role played by special consumer demands, informal credit facilities and formal banking operations, and features of immigrant and African-American social organizations on rates of small business ownership, representation in professions, and insurance subscription. The unique consumer demands of immigrant communities, demands that were not shared by the native African-American community, is held to explain some of the increased rates of business ownership by Asian immigrants in light of their pre-existing understanding of that consumer demand. Nevertheless, the author notes that roles of traditional Asian forms of business organization had been overlooked and these modes of organization also help explain the higher rates of ownership. Similarly, traditional credit practices, in particular, the Chinese hui, the Japanese ko or tanomoshi, and the West African esusu, are investigated. These credit arrangements aided disfavored minority groups in obtaining credit for business operations that were otherwise unavailable to them in the formal capital markets. The socioeconomic circumstances of African slaves in the Caribbean is contrasted with that in North America to trace the disappearance of the esusu among African-Americans. The salubrious effect of informal credit facilities is further supported by an examination of the successes of Afro-Caribbean immigrants who retained the esusu in their cultural repertoire. Minority-operated banks met with less success and diminished investment opportunities is determined to be a significant cause of the problem. The latter half of the book affords an extensive treatment of the historical facts of minority social and religious organizations and the sociological theories that may explain the variety of forms those organizations took. The effect that these organizations had on trends regarding mutual aid, recourse to public assistance, and insurance purchases is an additional focus. (CAR).
Author: Robert Mark Silverman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000526143 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 185
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First Published in 2000. The invisible hand of the market cannot conceal color. This study contends that the economy is an extension of society’s system of racial and ethnic stratification. The central argument of this study is that the internal colonial paradigm should be used as a guiding principle in the analysis of minority business development in minority markets. Through the use of this paradigm, the institutional constraints of doing business in a minority market can be identified. The ethnic beauty aids industry was selected as the subject of this case study because it is embedded in the context of minority markets, which entail high concentrations of minority entrepreneurs and consumers. Minority entrepreneurs enter minority markets to avoid racial barriers they perceive in the mainstream economy, and minority consumers find minority markets more accessible and responsive to their consumption needs.
Author: David Fu-Keung Ip Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000160645 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 294
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This title was first published in 2000: The Asian financial crisis and its aftermath provide a crucible in which Chinese diaspora capitalism has been tested, and a prism through which its strengths and weaknesses may be seen in a different light. The papers collected in this volume are in many ways still tentative. Some represent work-in-progress reports on as yet uncompleted research. In other cases, outcomes explored are still unclear or have not even yet fully unfolded. The aim is to focus on the consquences for diaspora Chinese capitalists and to start trying to identify losers and winners in the new landscape, re-evaluating their business culture, strategies and modes of operation, and their likely future direction and potential. The book begins by setting the scene for the Asian crisis and the achievements of the "Asian miracle". It then goes on to examine the causes of the financial crash, the firms that were able to ride the crisis, the Taiwanese economy as a whole, the fortunes of diaspora ventures in China, the small and medium enterprises at the heart of Chinese diaspora capitalism, the impact of the crisis on large Chinese business groups, and finally, the book debunks the theory that the rise of East Asia was initiated by Japan.
Author: Léo-Paul Dana Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030970795 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 240
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This book features contributions by international scholars who have worked to establish a theory- and empirics-based discussion on disadvantaged minorities and long-term economic development. Depending on their socio-demographic characteristics, minorities have long lived under the shadow of the groups, categories, or communities they presumably belong to. Despite the obstacles they have to face, they manage to demonstrate that, above all, they are entrepreneurs capable to start, run, and successfully complete their venture. Their motivations are often assimilated by the research community into “necessity entrepreneurship.” In addition to the external barriers they face, they have to overcome endogenous cognitive factors that hinder their entrepreneurial intention: anxiety before the future, the anguish of death, generativity, health condition as perceived by others, subjective age, and the cultural gap as viewed by natives, among others. The book integrates a diversity of challenges and disadvantages faced by entrepreneurs, allowing the reader to have a renewed understanding of entrepreneurial behavior. On the theoretical level, the chapters emphasize the need for integrating entrepreneurship theory with multidisciplinary approaches, such as the Theory of Cumulative Disadvantage/Advantage (CDA), cultural and geographical theories, and psychological theories. On the practical level, this book would raise the awareness of policy makers, mainly governmental and nongovernmental organizations concerning the disadvantages, and helping them adjust their actions either for local or international programs. Chapter "Intersectionality and Minority Entrepreneurship: At the Crossroad of Vulnerability and Power" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author: Ivan Light Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520322886 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 236
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
Author: Ivan Light
Author: Ivan Light
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Author: Ivan Hubert Light
Author: Ivan Hubert Light
Author: Ivan Hubert Light
Author: Robert Mark Silverman
Author: David Fu-Keung Ip
Author: Léo-Paul Dana
Author: Ivan Light