Who are the heavyweights of the academic ethnic entrepreneurship field?

December 21, 2005 12:36 PM

Who are the heavyweights of the academic ethnic entrepreneurship field?

I'm in the process of doing a lit review type of thing for ethnic entrepreneurship. Thus far my research has focused on company examples for successful ethnic entrepreneurs. I'm about to delve into the academic part of the research and the amount of information is a little overwhelming. Who should I investigate and read to get a real feel for the field?

Thanks!

posted by tozturk to Work & Money (5 answers total)

Best answer: What exactly do you mean by ethnic?

Roberto C. Goizueta, a Cuban, was CEO of Coke until his death in 1997.
posted by Alison at 12:52 PM on December 21, 2005

Response by poster: Folks who have traveled to the US and started their own business - or folks who have a specific/strong non-US national background (that maybe lives in an ethnic community) that has started their own business. Researchers on minority entrepreneurs as well would be useful.
posted by tozturk at 1:09 PM on December 21, 2005

Best answer: N.R. Narayana Murthy, the CEO of InfoSys?
posted by chunking express at 1:45 PM on December 21, 2005

Who doesn't count? White middle-aged heterosexual protestant males?
posted by scheptech at 1:48 PM on December 21, 2005

Best answer: Anousheh Ansari. She fled the Iranian mullahs as a teenager (who forced her to be veiled and who wouldn't let her take science courses), started college in the US at 16, founded a semi-conductor chip company, and put up most of the millions for the Ansari X-Prize to develop a resuable sub-orbital vehicle.
posted by Asparagirl at 6:48 PM on December 21, 2005