Faculty & Research

Publications

Publications

Filter Results : (11) Arrow Down

Show Results For

Ethnic Networks Remove Ethnic Networks →

Page 1 of 11 Results

Are you looking for?

→ Search All HBS Web
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo
By: Stefan Dimitriadis and Rembrand Koning
Recent field experiments demonstrate that advice, mentorship, and feedback from randomly assigned peers improve entrepreneurial performance. These results raise a natural question: what is preventing entrepreneurs and managers from forming these peer connections...  View Details
Keywords: Social Skills; Communication Practices; Business Performance; Entrepreneurs; Peer Relationships; Field Experiment; Entrepreneurship; Communication; Performance; Developing Countries And Economies; Africa; Togo
Related
  • February 2017
  • Article

Resident Networks and Corporate Connections: Evidence from World War II Internment Camps
By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and Christopher J. Malloy
We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a firm’s location, we can predict, on average, which trade links are valuable for firms. Using customs and port authority data on the international shipments of all U.S. publicly traded firms, we show...  View Details
Keywords: Information Networks; Trade Links; Firm Behavior; networks; Geographic Location; ethnicity; Organizations; Trade
Related
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other...  View Details
Keywords: Self-employed; Occupation; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Industry Clusters; ethnicity; Immigration; networks; United States
Related
  • Article

Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach
By: Lakshmi Ramarajan
Psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers have long recognized that people have multiple identities—based on attributes such as organizational membership, profession, gender, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and family role(s) and that these multiple identities...  View Details
Keywords: networks; Research; Organizations; Identity
Related
  • July 2014
  • Article

Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India
By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Christopher Stanton
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name...  View Details
Keywords: Diaspora; Outsourcing; Odesk; networks; Job Cuts And Outsourcing; Diasporas; Online Technology; ethnicity; Service Industry; South Asia; India
Related
  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
By: William R. Kerr
This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The developed panel includes both emerging and advanced economies, and particular attention is devoted to the variation exploited in empirical tests. The elasticity of export...  View Details
Keywords: Trade; Immigration; Competitive Advantage; Integration; Technology; United States
Related
  • August 2008
  • Article

Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion
By: William R. Kerr
This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an...  View Details
Keywords: Technology; ethnicity; Production; Integration; Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Employment; Performance Productivity; Entrepreneurship; Change; Developing Countries And Economies; Immigration; China; United States
Related
  • August 2007 (Revised July 2008)
  • Background Note

Take Advantage of Your Diaspora Network
By: William R. Kerr and Daniel J. Isenberg
Diaspora networks (DNs) are an important resource for global entrepreneurs. Discusses several features of DNs, combining both academic and practitioner perspectives. Describes the history and prevalence of DNs in many ethnicities, documents the broad resources DNs can...  View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Markets And Industries; Social And Collaborative networks
Related
  • May 2005 (Revised December 2015)
  • Case

Aristotle Onassis and the Greek Shipping Industry
By: Geoffrey Jones and Paul Gomopoulos
Examines the career of Aristotle Onassis and his creation of one of the world's largest shipping companies between 1945 and 1973. Explores the role of ethnic and family networks in Greek shipping and how Onassis was able to penetrate this system despite being an...  View Details
Keywords: networks; ethnicity; Family Business; Innovation Strategy; Management Succession; Competitive Advantage; Personal Development And Career; Shipping Industry; Greece
Related
  • July 2004 (Revised October 2018)
  • Case

Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century
By: Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Koll and Alexis Gendron
Concerns the growth of multinational trading companies in the first global economy. Examines two Scottish-owned merchant houses, Jardine Matheson and James Finlay, and shows their changing trade and investment strategies as well as their use of an organizational form...  View Details
Keywords: History; Globalized Economies And Regions; ethnicity; Multinational Firms And Management; Groups And Teams; Trade; Social And Collaborative networks; China; United Kingdom
Related
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other...  View Details
Keywords: Self-employed; Occupation; Entrepreneurship; ethnicity; Immigration; networks
Related

Are you looking for?

→ Search All HBS Web