Fertala, Nikolinka (2005) Do birds of a feather flock together and perform economically better? A study of the homophily paradox among imigrant entrepreneuers in Germany. In: Entrepreneurship and macroeconomic management, April, 28-30, 2005., Pula, Croatia.
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In the current research we explore whether the homophily as an organising principle impacts the performance of immigrant entrepreneurs in Germany. The empirical analysis is based on a detailed survey of 500 immigrant entrepreneurs from six different countries. The survey was conducted during the period September-October 2002 in Hamburg city by means of face-to-face interviews. The main finding suggests that the process of composing a working team within a venture is likely to follow the principle of homophily. The gender-based honophily raises significantly the volume of sales by 8.31 while increasing the male dominance by 10 per cent. The nationally homogenous working teams are the regular case in our study. In 72.3 per cent of the companies, the working team is composed of mainly employees from the same country of origin as the entrepreneur. Surprisingly, the so formed team structure causes decline in the sales per employee by 5.14 per cent while increasing the dominance of co-nationals by 10 per cent. Additionally, cooperating mostly with co-nationals as suppliers improves the economic performance of immigrant entrepreneurs by 4.78 per cent. As apposed to, serving mainly German customers increases significantly the volume of sales per employer.
| Tip objekta: | Materijal konferencije ili radionice (Paper) |
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| Mentor: | NIJE ODREĐENO |
| Dodatne informacije: | 3/2005, Vol. 1 |
| Ključni pojmovi: | Homophily, Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Economic Performance, Applied Econometrics, homofilija, imigrantsko poduzetništvo, praktična ekonometrija |
| Teme: | 6 Tehnologija (primijenjene znanosti) > 65 Menadžment i organizacija industrije, trgovine i komunikacija > 65.01 Metode i metodologija. Teorija i praksa organizacije |
| Odjeli: | Odjel za ekonomiju i turizam "Dr. Mijo Mirković" |
| Datum pohrane: | 17 Oct 2012 11:23 |
| Zadnja promjena: | 19 Nov 2012 13:05 |
| URI: | http://eknjiznica.unipu.hr/id/eprint/1428 |
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