Get IT going: new ethnic Chinese business. The case of Taiwanese-owned computer rms in Hamburg.
Drawing on qualitative, semi-structured interviews with Taiwanese entrepreneurs who operate mostly small- to medium-scale businesses in the computer sales sector in Hamburg (Germany), this paper brings out the diversity of `ethnic entrepreneurship', a notion which is conventionally used almost exclu...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 277 - 295 |
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Apr2001
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