Institutional Completeness and Interpersonal Ties among Japanese American Immigrants*

Abstract

The integration of immigrants is a multidirectional process. A web of social contacts with the larger society, within the ethnic fold, or away from either to remain as isolates can be established. It is argued that the direction of integration is determined by the ability of the immigrant community to contain within its ethnic boundaries the social ties of its members. This is accomplished by the development of institutional completeness.

Relationships among immigrant consumers' cultural orientation, innovativeness and opinion leadership

“…Noting Kizgin et al's (2018a) finding that influential immigrant consumers are particularly useful for appealing to consumers who feel connected to their heritage culture, in line with Moldovan et al's (2017) IMR 39,1 assertion that influential consumers are more effective in small, strong-tie groups, we find that heritage culture orientation to positively predict opinion leadership in relation to heritage culture peers. But we also show that host culture orientation positively predicts opinion leadership in relation to host culture peers, suggesting that immigrant communities are less able to remain contained within ethnic boundaries (Tsukashima, 1985), and knowledge of host culture products might be valuable and appreciated. Our finding of these positive effects of heritage and host country orientation on opinion leadership, among both host and heritage culture peers, suggests a viable means to market to immigrant consumers, who tend to rely on influential peers to deal with their limited knowledge of the host country and its marketplace (Pires and Stanton, 2000).…”

The management of austerity in higher education: an international comparison

“…Institutional completeness is at its extreme "whenever the ethnic community could perform all the services required by its members" (Breton, 1964, p. 194). Even if originally and in later studies (see among others, Driedger, 1973;Driedger & Church, 1974, Inglis & Gudykunst, 1982Tsukashima, 1985), this term has not been applied to such a macro level, it seems appropriate to use it to define Qu6bec's structurally and functionally independent system of higher education. It is in this sense that Qu6bec may properly be a unit of analysis capable of comparisons with national system.…”