Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship : Lessons for Local Liabilities in Globalization from the Prato Case Study

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- References -- 2 Liabilities of Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the Processes of Globalization -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Acculturation and Liabilities in Relationships Between Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship -- 2.1 Acculturation Process and Entrepreneurship -- 2.2 Liabilities Between Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurship -- 3 Impact of Migrant Entrepreneurship on the Evolutionary Processes of the Industrial District -- 4 Immigrants, Second Generation and Integration: Liabilities from a Sociological Perspective -- 5 Sociology of the Economics of Outsidership/Insidership and of Networks -- References -- 3 Chinese Immigration to Italy and Economic Relations with the Homeland: A Multiscalar Perspective -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 National Models and Rescaling Processes: Immigration and Globalization -- 2.1 Changes in Migration -- 2.2 Rescaling Processes -- 2.3 Rescaling and Transnationalism -- 2.4 Foreignness and Outsidership? Migration and Liabilities in Global Interconnections from a Sociological Perspective -- 3 Trade, Investments, and Remittances: Linking Countries Through Immigration -- 3.1 Immigration and Trade -- 3.2 Immigration and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) -- 3.3 Immigration and Remittances -- 3.4 The Italian Case -- 4 Immigration and (Co-) Development: The Italian Case -- 4.1 Putting the Italian Case in Context -- 4.2 Immigration in the Italian Production System -- 4.3 Chinese in Italy -- 4.4 Socio-economic Consequences -- 5 Bilateral Integration: Immigration, Trade, and Remittances Between Italy and China -- 5.1 Selecting the Factors -- 5.2 Remittances -- 5.3 Trade -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 4 A Social Accounting Matrix for Prato: Interrelating the Chinese Migrant Community and the Provincial Economy