Journal article
Social Capital, Geography, and Survival: Gujarati Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the U.S. Lodging Industry
Management science, Vol.52(2), pp.233-247
02/2006
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1050.0481
Abstract
Immigrant entrepreneurs often rely on their group’s local social capital in their new home market to establish and maintain their businesses. In particular, immigrant entrepreneurs with few resources of their own receive help from those possessing more resources. Supporting these arguments using the empirical setting of Gujarati immigrant entrepreneurs in the lodging industry, we find that the likelihood of survival of an immigrant entrepreneur’s hotel increases when surrounded by higher counts of branded hotels (representing high-resource establishments) owned by individuals from their ethnic group but is unaffected by unbranded motels (representing low-resource establishments) owned by members of their ethnic group or by branded hotels owned by individuals from other ethnic groups. These results isolate and reinforce the importance of social capital not only for immigrant entrepreneurs but also more generally for any entrepreneurs belonging to ethnic, professional, religious, or social groups.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Social Capital, Geography, and Survival: Gujarati Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the U.S. Lodging Industry
- Creators
- Arturs KalninsWilbur Chung
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Management science, Vol.52(2), pp.233-247
- DOI
- 10.1287/mnsc.1050.0481
- ISSN
- 0025-1909
- eISSN
- 1526-5501
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2006
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984083241602771
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