A third of the world’s entrepreneurial activity is driven by women with the mass movement of people now commonplace, the role of female entrepreneurs in immigrant communities has become an
increasingly important component of the world economy, its productivity, and the struggle against poverty. Throwing light on the dynamics of entrepreneurship generally, and on immigrant and
female entrepreneurship in particular, the global Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship (FIE) project is a huge and exciting research undertaking.
Written by the project’s team of researchers based in prestigious business schools and universities on almost every continent, this important book begins the process of discovering why and how
female driven business start-ups often seem to spontaneously emerge in adverse environments. Is it randomness, luck, or chance that determine success or failure, or vital critical forces and
the inherent qualities of the women involved? The research emerging from the FIE project point to answers to questions about the integration of immigrant communities, their interaction with
host economic and business environments, and the role of women in that interaction.
With findings from more than fifteen countries from the USA. With some of the world’s oldest and largest immigratnt communities, to African countries that are the newest destination for Asian
migrants, this book will help inform social and economic policy in communities and countries searching for prosperity.
More than that, the book offers policy makers, business leaders, and those concerned with business development the chance to uncover some of the mystrey around the complex phenomenon of
entrepreneurship itself.
