Disadvantaged Minorities in Business

Léo-Paul Dana is a professor at Dalhousie University, Canada, and affiliated with Sorbonne Business School, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.  A graduate of the Faculty of Management at McGill University and of HEC-Montreal, he has served as Marie Curie Fellow at Princeton University and visiting professor at INSEAD.  He has published extensively in a variety of journals and is the author of several books.Nada Khachlouf is Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Strategy at ICD Business School of Paris. She holds a Visiting Professor position at JAMK School of Business (Finland). Her research interests revolve around entrepreneurship, family firms, knowledge networks and collaborative relationships. She is also interested in the topic of people with disabilities’ Entrepreneurial entry.Adnane Maâlaoui is the director of entrepreneurship programs at IPAG Business School (Paris, France). His research focuses on entrepreneurship issues, especially on disadvantaged entrepreneurs (elderly, refugees, disabled entrepreneurs, etc.). He explores topics such as entrepreneurial intention and cognitive approach to entrepreneurship, in particular, diversity and social entrepreneurship. Adnan Maalaoui is the author of more than 20 articles published in academic journals and has published the book Handbook of Research on Elderly Entrepreneurship (Springer, 2019).  Vanessa Ratten is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She received her PhD from the University of Queensland, and has sole authored 7 books and co-edited over 30 books. She has more than twenty years university teaching experience and has taught a range of subjects including corporate venturing, innovation management and entrepreneurial business planning. Her recent co-edited books include Stakeholder Entrepreneurship (Springer) and Tourism Innovation in Spain and Portugal: New Trends and Developments (Springer).

• Introduction.- Job loss in the pandemic disruption in Egypt: A push to start a business?.- Disadvantaged migrant entrepreneurs and their selection of location.- Immigrant entrepreneurship and dynamics of being (dis)advantaged: An exploratory multi-case study of Eastern European origin immigrant Entrepreneurs in the Nordic context.- Exploring the Entrepreneurial Challenges of Disabled Entrepreneurs in a Developing Country.- Refugee Entrepreneurship in Germany: an Institutional Voids Perspective.- A disadvantage to an advantage? Immigrant entrepreneurs’ use of effectuation in business start-up and development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.- From retirement to entrepreneurship through skills, attitude and technological innovation.- Women and wealth creation:  investigating financial self-efficacy differences versus men as a barrier.- Home away from home: Displaced migrant entrepreneurship in times of Covid-19.- Intersectionality and minority entrepreneurship: at the crossroad of vulnerability and power.