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Immigrant entrepreneurs in advanced economies: mixed embeddedness further explored
A key statement of mixed embeddedness: immigrant businesses are shaped both by founders’ social networks and by the markets and institutions around them.
Kloosterman and Rath argue that explaining immigrant entrepreneurship means looking beyond the characteristics of immigrant groups to the opportunity structure — the markets, regulations and institutions — in which their businesses operate.
Why it’s on the shelf: the framework remains one of the most widely used lenses in the field. The Lab’s own review of how it has been used is in Research.