New urban economic agents: A comparative analysis of high-performance new entrepreneurs
| dc.contributor.author | Kourtit, Karima | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nijkamp, Peter | |
| dc.contributor.author | Suzuki, Soushi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-05T13:23:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-05T13:23:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | pl_PL |
| dc.identifier.citation | Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 35 (2), 2016, pp. 5-22 | pl_PL |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0137-477X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10593/17177 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pl_PL |
| dc.publisher | Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza | pl_PL |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | economic vitality | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | urban development | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | entrepreneurship | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | migrant entrepreneurs | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | diversity | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | global diaspora economy | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | economic spillovers | pl_PL |
| dc.title | New urban economic agents: A comparative analysis of high-performance new entrepreneurs | pl_PL |
| dc.type | Artykuł | pl_PL |