Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2-2022

Abstract

Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs were historically portrayed as a common prototypical example of middleman minorities, as they usually operate in the trading and commerce sector within a localised ethnic enclave in host countries. Framed within the context of the contemporary era, this study evaluated new immigrant entrepreneurs from mainland China in the Asia-Pacific region against the portrait of classic middleman minorities as their predecessors. Based on a typology model measured by ‘trader-innovator’ and ‘local-global’ dimensions, this study conducted a review of recent literature and supplemented with observations from the authors’ field studies. The results suggest that while most of the Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs today can still fall under the ambit of middleman minorities, three emerging types are identified and illustrated with cases, which are: neo-middleman minorities, transnational traders and global innovators.

Keywords

Middleman minority, Immigrant entrepreneurship, Chinese Immigrants, Global innovators, Transnational traders

Discipline

Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations | Strategic Management Policy

Research Areas

Strategy and Organisation

Publication

World Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship

Editor

DANA, Leo Paul

ISBN

9781839104138

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing

City or Country

London

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