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Cuban-American Entrepreneurs: Chance, Complexity and Chaos. e-journal

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Bouchikhi (1993) introduces themes from chaos and complexity theory to gain an understanding about chance in entrepreneurship. We expand on these themes using an example from the Cuban immigrants to South Florida to increase the dynamism of Waldinger et al.'s (1990) model of immigrant entrepreneurship. These complexity and chaos themes are: (I) large differences in outcomes can come from small differences in initial conditions; (2) largely unpredictable, radical changes can be intermixed with and become directly dependent on incremental, predictable changes; (3) short-term predictability can accompany long-term nonpredictability; (4) seemingly random patterns can show an apparent attraction to specific configurations; and (5), mutual influence among a small number of predictors can appear to be random. An example from among the leading Cuban-born entrepreneurs illustrates three levels of generality in entrepreneurship theory. Most generally, this person's career reflects abstract conclusions about entrepreneu rship in the larger community. At a second level, it illustrates the uniqueness in the pattern of entrepreneurship for one sub-group, a specific age cadre. At a third level, it illustrates the uniquenesses of an individual's personal history. Insights at these three levels of generality appear as we follow a systematic, theory-based, case-study method.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

338.04 PET c

Penerbit

London : Sage Publications Ltd. (UK)., 2001

Deskripsi Fisik

31-57 hlm ; 164 lembar

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0170-8406

Klasifikasi

338.04

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

Vol. 22, Issue 1

Subjek

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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Document Type: Article

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