Network Associations and Professional Growth among Engineers from India and China in Silicon Valley
Journal AbstractAuthors
Rafiq Dossani
Ashish Kumar
Published by
American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 55 no. 7
July 2011
The economic benefits attributed by the literature to ethnic networks include helping their members cope with social exclusion, mainstreaming, facilitating entrepreneurship, and providing access to transnational opportunities. In this article, the authors explore the benefits provided by participation in ethnic professional associations formed by Indian and Chinese engineers in Silicon Valley. We find that the ethnic professional associations offer several of these economic benefits. These benefits are complementary to the benefits from other ethnic ties and from nonethnic ties.



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