Business History: Immigrant entrepreneurs on world successful brands
1. Immigrant
Entrepreneurs on World
Successful Brands
Prepared by
Nur Suhaili Ramli
nbr500@York.ac.uk
THE YORK MANAGEMENT SCHOOL (TYMS)
The Centre for Evolution of Global Business and Institutions (CEGBI)
Supervisors: Professor Teresa Da Silva Lopes, Professor Bob Doherty
for
The CEGBI/CSWL Summer Conference 2013
2. Examples of research: A Report by the Partnership for a New American Economy (2011).
Wadhwa, Vivek, et al. "America's new immigrant entrepreneurs: Part I." Duke
Science, Technology & Innovation Paper 23 (2007).
Example of research: Teresa da Silva Lopes and Mark Casson (2007). Entrepreneurship and
the Development of Global Brands. Business History Review, 81, pp 651-680.
Example of research: Wadhwa, V., Saxenian, A., Rissing, B., & Gereffi, G. (2008). Skilled
immigration and economic growth. Available at SSRN 1141190.
Example: Saxenian, AnnaLee. "Silicon Valley’s new immigrant entrepreneurs." (2000).
Evolution of Research Field
Immigrant Entrepreneurs Economic Growth
Global Brands
Successful Global Brands
by Immigrant
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Economic Growth
Economic Growth
Successful Brands
3. Preliminary stage
Data analysis on top
500 most valuable
brands in the world
Trends
Industries
Immigrant and non
immigrant entrepreneurs
Regions
Brands
4. Australia, 7.0
Austria, 2.0 Brazil, 9.0
Canada, 14.0
Chile , 1.0
China, 27.0
Denmark, 2.0
Finland, 1.0
France, 35.0
Germany, 33.0
Hong
Kong, 3.0
India, 6.0
Ireland, 2.0
Italy, 7.0
Japan, 53.0
Luxembourg, 1.0
Malaysia, 2.0
Mexico, 4.0
Netherlands, 11.0
Norway, 3.0
Portugal, 1.0
Russia, 8.0
Saudi Arabia, 1.0
Singapore, 3.0
South Africa, 1.0
South Korea, 11.0
Spain, 10.0
Sweden, 5.0
Switzerland, 20.0
Taiwan, 2.0
UAE, 2.0
United Kingdom, 35.0
United States, 178.0
Australia
Austria
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Hong Kong
India
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Mexico
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Origin of the
top 500 successful
brands
Examples of brands :
5. Preliminary finding
Regions Total
Countries
(Out of 33)
Total Brands
(Out of 500)
Total
Industries (Out
of 50)
Africa 1 1 1
Asia 10 110 30
Europe 16 176 37
North
America
2 192 40
Oceania 1 7 3
South
America
3 14 7
Total 33 500 50
Combined revenues of 500 companies founded by
immigrants or children of immigrants would constitute the
third largest economy with ($4.25T), outside the US
($14.6T) itself and after Japan ($5.4T). However, companies
founded by purely immigrants contribute ($1.7T).
Table 1: Top 500 Most Valuable Brands 2012
Example from one country: USA
6. Expectations
1. The main different between immigrant and non-
immigrant entrepreneurs is their characteristic.
2. More successful global brands by immigrant
entrepreneurs.
3. Immigrant entrepreneurs created long lasting brands in
some industry.
4. North America and Europe are well-known regions of
producing successful global brands in the New World by
the immigrant entrepreneurs.
5. Each region has immigrant entrepreneurs.
6. Which industry is the most influential by immigrant
entrepreneurs in the New World?
7. So the interesting part in preliminary study is a clear
relationship between variables.