Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners survey, we
examine why African American–owned businesses lag substantially behind white-owned …

We focus on the role of racial identity in the entrepreneurial journey, its antecedents and
expected outcomes. Building on entrepreneurial identity and racial identity literatures, we …

This book offers a fresh and uniquely sociological perspective on money and credit. As basic
economic institutions, money and credit are easy to overlook when they work well. When …

This chapter reviews theory and evidence on the financial returns to an individual from the
choice to be or become an entrepreneur in comparison to the best (or present) alternative …

We study the effects private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) financing have on small
and mid-sized single entity business establishments from 1995 to 2009. We focus on single …

In this study, we investigate the obstacles to growth and the mitigating strategies of high-
performing (over $1 million in revenues) entrepreneurial businesses, and how these differ …

Previous literature provides potential lending discrimination evidence of disadvantaged
women and minority entrepreneurs' high rate of business loan application denial and their …

In recent years, the field of regional economic analysis has focused on the social and
cultural environment of a place to explain variations in innovation activity, entrepreneurial …

Few researchers have explored the determinants of venture performance of firms owned by
African-American women. In recent years, the growth in the number of these firms have …

Scholars theorize that black–white disparities in self-employment persist because of racial
disparities in human capital (eg educational attainment) and financial capital (eg assets) …