New urban economic agents: A comparative analysis of high-performance new entrepreneurs
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2016
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Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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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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economic vitality, urban development, entrepreneurship, migrant entrepreneurs, diversity, global diaspora economy, economic spillovers
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 35 (2), 2016, pp. 5-22