“…Diversity in bigger cities is seen as an asset that is connected to their wealth and long-term economic development (Jacobs, 1969;Florida, 2002). There are multiple levels and dimensions of diversity in regions including age, gender, nationality (Boone, Lokshin, Günter, & Belderbos, 2019), ethnicity (Gavious & Milo, 2020), education (Dutta, Li, & Merenda, 2010;, experience (Spanjer & Witteloostuijn, 2017), religion (Nikolova & Simroth, 2015), culture (Nathan & Lee, 2013), occupation (Roy & Basu 2018;. Diversity researchers find both positive and negative effects.…”
<p>There is contradictory and inconclusive evidence about the roles of gender, ethnic, and functional diversity in venture performance. Some studies show positive effects and others negative, but most studies use different venture performance measures, making it difficult to draw general conclusions. This thesis seeks to clear up contradictions and help explain prior findings by introducing a life-cycle stage perspective, using a variety of venture performance measures as integration points that map the different goals and objectives of ventures in each stage. Twelve hypotheses capture predictions about gender, ethnic, and functional diversity effects on venture performance through the dynamic effect of venture life-cycle stages (start-up, growth, maturity, and decline and/or innovation). I use a sample of high-tech ventures that participated in a Techstars accelerator program between 2007 and 2018 to test the hypotheses. Results suggest that looking at gender, ethnic, and functional diversity effects on venture performance through the dynamic lens of life-cycle stage theory makes it possible to generalize findings and come up with more precise conclusions about how each of the three types of diversity affects venture performance during each life-cycle stage.</p>
“…Diversity in bigger cities is seen as an asset that is connected to their wealth and long-term economic development (Jacobs, 1969;Florida, 2002). There are multiple levels and dimensions of diversity in regions including age, gender, nationality (Boone, Lokshin, Günter, & Belderbos, 2019), ethnicity (Gavious & Milo, 2020), education (Dutta, Li, & Merenda, 2010;, experience (Spanjer & Witteloostuijn, 2017), religion (Nikolova & Simroth, 2015), culture (Nathan & Lee, 2013), occupation (Roy & Basu 2018;. Diversity researchers find both positive and negative effects.…”
<p>There is contradictory and inconclusive evidence about the roles of gender, ethnic, and functional diversity in venture performance. Some studies show positive effects and others negative, but most studies use different venture performance measures, making it difficult to draw general conclusions. This thesis seeks to clear up contradictions and help explain prior findings by introducing a life-cycle stage perspective, using a variety of venture performance measures as integration points that map the different goals and objectives of ventures in each stage. Twelve hypotheses capture predictions about gender, ethnic, and functional diversity effects on venture performance through the dynamic effect of venture life-cycle stages (start-up, growth, maturity, and decline and/or innovation). I use a sample of high-tech ventures that participated in a Techstars accelerator program between 2007 and 2018 to test the hypotheses. Results suggest that looking at gender, ethnic, and functional diversity effects on venture performance through the dynamic lens of life-cycle stage theory makes it possible to generalize findings and come up with more precise conclusions about how each of the three types of diversity affects venture performance during each life-cycle stage.</p>
“…They were warmly welcomed back and the bachelors were very prospective grooms for the girls in China. When one went back to China, someone else took his place in the city concerned: thus securing the job out here in India (then Calcutta) returning usually back to the work when the money ran out at home (Roy and Basu 2020 ). Fig.…”
The contribution of migration to global demographic dynamics has resulted in a growing public and academic interest. The landscapes of Chinese overseas ethnic economy and associated migrant Diaspora networks require special scholarly attention from cross-disciplinary perspectives. The present study seeks to understand the same from geographical viewpoints and thus selected international migration theories have been applied upon the trajectory of Chinese overseas migration. For the last two centuries, this particular stream portrayed dimensional and structural shifts from single male sojourning to transnational family entrepreneurship. The global Chinese overseas associations promote ethnic solidarity, kinship ties and the sentiment of ‘Greater China’ over the foreign soils. The strategic geographical location of Calcutta, the then colonial capital of India played a vital role in the evolution of the ethnic enclave economic landscape in the spatial context. Hence, the authors by applying both theoretical and empirical methods have represented the Chinese migration to Kolkata (Calcutta) through twin Chinatowns as a case study with its varied dimensions to harness the perspective from spatial magnitudes.
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