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Minority Entrepreneurship Research
2003 and 2005 National Minority Business Owners Surveys
The Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship established the Minority Business Research Group (MBRG) involving researchers from the Baruch Community, the larger City University of New York (CUNY) system and other researchers nationwide. The first priority of the MBRG is to analyze and disseminate the recently completed multi-year data-collection project focusing on minority entrepreneurship in the United States entitled, the National Minority Business Owners Surveys (NMBOS). The purpose of these studies is to explore minority entrepreneurship issues by examining the patterns of business ownership among White, African-American, Korean-American and Mexican-American business owner’s populations on various measures. The 2003 National Minority Business Owners Surveys on Whites and Blacks (2003 NMBOS) and the 2005 National Minority Business Owners Surveys on Koreans and Mexicans (2005 NMBOS) explored the issues which are hypothesized to have an impact on business ownership patterns are education, gender, family structure and responsibilities, access to capital, business experience, personal and family goals, and business management and performance. Future research efforts will attempt to link these data to a yet to be collected subsample from the regular GEM surveys but for U.S. minority entrepreneurs.
The 2003 and 2005 National Minority Business Owners’ Surveys (NMBOS) represent a concerted research effort to reach selected minority populations using nationally representative sampling frames targeted at those minority populations and their families as well as conduct in-depth interviews for both the business and the household. Using nationwide samples, the 2003 NMBOS concentrated on the African American and Whites and 2005 NMBOS sampled Korean and Mexican Americans. The purpose of the interviews was to systematically explore minority entrepreneurship issues to reveal the patterns of business ownership and to compare and contrast the minority group samples with a nonminority sample of white business owners. A distinguishing characteristic of these surveys is its emphasis on family owned businesses. This allows analysis of the interaction and influence of family owned businesses on household functions and activities and vice versa. At least 74% of all four samples considered themselves to be family owned businesses. This is similar to other comparable national surveys of family businesses. The 2003 and 2005 NMBOS data includes information about goals, attitudes, personal and business financial characteristics, family issues, management style, retirement plans, and social agenda, it can give us insight into the differences between these groups of entrepreneurs while providing detail about the characteristics of their businesses.
Minority Entrepreneurship Research Website
The Field Center has established a private website for researchers interested in the data, to access send an email to Lendynette Pacheco at Lendynette.Pacheco@baruch.cuny.edu. Please identify yourself, school affiliation, and area of expertise.
Publications
Cardon, M. S., R. S. Shinnar, M. Eisenman, & E. G. Rogoff. (2008). Segmenting the Population of Entrepreneurs: A Cluster Analysis Study. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 13(3), 293-314.
Danes, S. M., J. Lee, K. Stafford, and R. K. Z. Heck. (2008). The Effects of Ethnicity, Families and Culture on Entrepreneurial Experience: An Extension of Sustainable Family Business Theory. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 13(3), 229-268.
Haynes, G. W., J. I. Onochie, & Y. Lee. (2008). Influence of Family’s Social Relationships on the Debt Structure of Mexican and Korean American Small Businesses. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 13(3), forthcoming.
Heck, R. K. Z., Hoy, F., Poutziouris, P. Z., & Steier, L. P. (2008). Emerging paths of family entrepreneurship research. Journal of Small Business Management, 46(3), 317-330.
Heck, R. K. Z., & Mishra, C. S. (2008). Family entrepreneurship. Journal of Small Business Management, 46(3), 313-316.
Lee, M-S, A. N. Puryear, E. G. Rogoff, J, Onochie, G. W. Haynes, and R. Heck. (In press). Exploring the Impact of Education on Korean American Entrepreneurs. New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, forthcoming,.
Puryear, A. N., E. G. Rogoff, M-S. Lee, R. K. Z. Heck, E. B. Grossman, G. W. Haynes, & J. I. Onochie. (2008). Sampling Minority Business Owners and Their Families: The Understudied Entrepreneurial Experience. Journal of Small Business Management, 46(3), 422-455.
Rogoff, E. G., & Heck, R. K. Z. (2008). The empirical truths about minority entrepreneurs. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 13(3), 223-227.
Shelton, L., S. M. Danes, & M. Eisenman. (2008). Role Demands, Difficulty in Managing Work-Family Conflict and Minority Entrepreneurs. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 13(3), 315-342.
