Immigrants from non‐industrialized countries have become part and parcel of the social fabric many advanced urban economies, including those in Netherlands. A significant number these migrants opt for setting up shop themselves. Lacking access to large financial resources mostly lacking educational qualifications, they are funnelled towards lower end opportunity structure economies. To survive cut‐throat markets, migrant entrepreneurs revert informal economic activities that strongly...

This paper introduces the JEMS special issue on immigrant entrepreneurship and mixed embeddedness. The has grown out of an EC-funded programme networking research entitled 'Working Fringes: Immigrant Businesses, Economic Integration Informal Practices'. Our opening provides a contextual overview for case-study papers which follow. We pay particular attention to mixed-embeddedness thesis especially focus demand side opportunity structures framework confronts potential entrepreneurs. propose...

In this article, an innovative analytical framework for the analysis of (migrant) entrepreneurship is presented. The approach combines micro-level individual entrepreneur (with his or her resources), with meso-level local opportunity structure and links latter, in more loose way, to macro-institutional framework. This insights on necessary resources (aspiring/nascent) views structures can be combined. A simple typology presented which distinguishes between different kind openings based, one...

Focuses on the polycentric urban region concept of city planning. Overview concept; Factors affecting growth cities and towns; Demise basic monocentric model at an intraurban level

The Ghanaian population in the Netherlands is relatively well-endowed terms of human capital. In addition, a large number them came when deindustrialisation had run its course and Dutch economy, service sector particular, started growing again after 1985. On basis Mixed Embeddedness model, we expected that combination of, on average, higher levels capital transformation (urban)economy, would lead to rather different patterns entrepreneurship compared their predecessors who as guest workers....

This essay concludes the Symposium on mixed embeddedness approach to migrant entrepreneurship by briefly outlining development of embeddedness, reflecting its position within international field research, and highlighting key elements. We first discuss how came into being. Thereafter we highlight basic components argue why such an should be preferred other, more mono-causal approaches. Our contribution pointing adjustments that has undergone since introduction in late 1990s.

Local contexts are becoming more important as the impact of process globalisation on spatial distribution economic activities seems to generate not so much processes homogenisation heterogenisation between regions in advanced economies. The combination specialisation and concentration activity economies has attracted attention from economists geographers. Here, we explore at what level aggregation contemporary tendencies clustering articulate themselves within archetypal polycentric urban...

"In this article, we [explore] the relationship between informal economic activities and recent immigrants in Netherlands.... We will give an overview of important trends on both demand supply side entrepreneurial economy. argue that potential for by large Dutch cities has been growing since early 1980s. After having outlined analytical framework, examine some evidence Netherlands, especially bakeries sector, before concluding discussion."

Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Acknowledgements POLYNET was funded by the European Union under INTERREG IIIB North West Europe programme and received additional support from a range of institutions in each participating country, all whom are thanked for making project possible. Thanks also contributors this special issue; manuscript reviewers; large number interviewees who participated study. Bart Lambregts provided helpful comments on an earlier version introductory paper....

Since the 1980s, subsequent Dutch governments have promoted self-employment of immigrants to reduce their unemployment rates. These policies been focused on (potential) actors themselves, i.e. who started or may want start a business. Taking mixed embeddedness as point departure, entrepreneurship and cannot be solely understood by focusing micro-level but has include larger macro meso structures that impact these actors' choices. In this paper, therefore, focus is opportunity structure...

Journal Article Walls and bridges: knowledge spillover between 'superdutch' architectural firms Get access Robert C. Kloosterman * *Amsterdam Institute of Metropolitan International Development Studies (AMIDSt), Universiteit van Amsterdam, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ, The Netherlands. email: <R.C.Kloosterman@uva.nl> Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Economic Geography, Volume 8, Issue 4, July 2008, Pages 545–563, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbn010...

Zhang X. and Kloosterman R. C. Connecting the 'workshop of world': intra- extra-service networks Pearl River Delta city-region, Regional Studies. Most research on globalization city-regions in developing countries has focused manufacturing activities, disregarding considerable growth producer services. Drawing Interlocking Network Model, this article presents a first analysis city-region China. The central question is how cities are (re)positioned regional urban which national global their...

ABSTRACT Cultural industries are becoming in general more important advanced economies as sources of employment and economic growth. In this paper, a quantitative exploration is given recent trends cultural the Netherlands. The data show rapid rise last decade. Moreover, four largest cities, although losing some terrain, sites for production. Furthermore, terms Amsterdam still turns out to be undisputed capital Dutch clearly has edge all but one selected industries. notable exception...

Abstract Many large European cities are now displaying clear social, ethnic and spatial divisions. These different types of cleavages tend to overlap. Governments try chase away this spectre an increasingly divided city by embarking on various policies. policies generally neglect the (potential) role immigrant entrepreneurs in improving neighbourhoods. In contribution, we have focused business start-ups Amsterdam Rotterdam. Neighbourhoods with high shares immigrants indeed turn out show...

Cultural industries are activities concerned with the production and marketing of goods services that have aesthetic or semiotic content (SCOTT 2004). Their emergence as engines economic growth reflects an cultural conjuncture where commodity has become tied in artistic experimentation. Research on industries, however, revealed a latent tension between artistic/l'art pour l'art commercial so-called humdrum considerations (Caves 2000; Cowen Tabarrok Kloosterman 2010a) As many can only survive...

KLOOSTERMAN R. C. (1996) Double Dutch: polarization trends in Amsterdam and Rotterdam after 1980, Reg. Studies 30, 467–476. The current changes the economic base of advanced cities – i.e. expansion producer consumer services on one hand, contraction manufacturing other are supposed to generate a notable among urban workforces. Here, this thesis is tested for two largest Dutch cities, Rotterdam. It shown that although has indeed occurred, fails identify correctly driving forces behind...

The turn of the century in Europe is marked by social changes that have affected immigration policies. In Netherlands, internal controls been tightened order to curb illegal residence and employment. On basis interviews with undocumented workers before after significant policy changes, shifts labour market position are observed. Matching strategies become less transparent conditions deteriorated. combination demographic i.e. arrival new groups immigrants, gap between immigrants receiving...

Cultural planning has been high on the agenda of many policy-makers. From an end in itself, it transformed into instrument to regenerate neighbourhoods and even whole cities as a means boost quality place attract high-skilled workers. With current crunch public spending, question arises what will happen cultural initiatives scope remain for them. To explore may this age austerity, we present concise typology amenities based two underlying, business model, dimensions. The first dimension...

Abstract In this article, we first seek to develop a more general framework understand differences in long-term trajectories of urban systems. We use model that has two dimensions: the level accumulation capital and concentration capital. then model, very much heuristic way, see what insights can be gained when applied concrete cases systems London Dutch Randstad. As data, especially for pre-industrial industrial era, are still scarce, mapping is highly conjectural. What emerges quite...