REMINDER: Ethnicity, Cultural Diversity and Entrepreneurship (GBER)

[entrepreneurship-phd at lists.uni-due.de]

Call For Papers
Global Business and Economics Review  (GBER)
Special Issue: "Ethnicity, Cultural Diversity and Entrepreneurship"
Deadline: September, 15th 2009

Guest Editors:
Robert Anderson, University of Regina, Canada
Leo Paul Dana, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

The unit of analysis in traditional entrepreneurship was the entrepreneur. More recently, evidence has shown that individuals of different ethnic backgrounds react in unlike ways to opportunities for entrepreneurship (Dana, 1995). Therefore, entrepreneurship cannot be explained simply by individual level accounts. Furthermore, in some cultures, the backbone of the economy is community-based enterprise (Peredo & Chrisman, 2006), collective entrepreneurship (Dana, 2007), or subsistence self-employment (Meis-Mason et al, 2008).

Examples of ethnic entrepreneurs can include, among others, Native Americans (USA), Aboriginals (Australia), the Sami people (Finland) or immigrated ethnic groups (e.g. Pakistanis in UK, Algerians in France). This special issue will focus on entrepreneurship as a function of ethnicity, reflecting various contexts in which cultural diversity is an explanatory variable for the nature of the economy. Anthropological and sociological perspectives are welcome, as are economic studies.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:

* Indigenous people
* Immigrant groups
* Enterprise development and support
* Knowledge transfer
* Land rights
* Traditional knowledge
* Opportunity recognition
* Collective entrepreneurship
* Religion and entrepreneurship
* The Arctic

Notes for Intending Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written). 
All papers are refereed through a peer review process. 

Editors and Notes

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:

Professor Leo Dana
University of Canterbury
College of Business & Economics
Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
New Zealand
Email:
E-mail: leo.dana at canterbury.ac.nz

(please Cc the email to: Inderscience Editorial Office, E-mail: editorial at inderscience.com

More info at https://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1165