Social inequality not only shapes resource access for minority entrepreneurs but also limits their dreams and aspirations. While scholars have argued that entrepreneurship education can play an important role by facilitating individual identity transformation, the potential of community-based identity transformation remains largely unexplored. Through an ethnographic exploration of a Detroit-based entrepreneurship education program for Black women tech founders, this study examines the pivotal role of the communal liminal experience in production of alternative entrepreneurial identities of minority entrepreneurs.

This study reveals the intricate relationships that Black female founders maintain with money and capitalism. These complexities manifest in moral quandaries related to fundraising and distrust in outsourcing financial management, emanating from a long-standing scepticism towards capitalism and intertwined with historical traumas. The research emphasizes the significance of comprehending minority entrepreneurs’ historical inequalities and lived experiences with capitalism to discern their diverse attitudes and performances in entrepreneurship – an aspect frequently neglected in entrepreneurship scholarship.

In Hard Reset: Framing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as the New Normal, inclusion expert and business anthropologist Dr. Marlo Rencher and two-time Fortune 500 Chief Diversity Officer Marlin Williams leverage fifty years of professional experience to guide you as you build equity and inclusion into your day-to-day operations.

Tech entrepreneurship is a powerful force for addressing societal problems and opportunities. Generally speaking, underrepresented tech entrepreneurs are inadequately recruited, developed and supported. TechTown Detroit has benchmarked some of the best practices for creating inclusive tech entrepreneurship environments in three distinct locations: Atlanta, Georgia; Memphis, Tennessee; and Miami, Florida.

This article chronicles an organizational-wide change at a private Midwestern university and the development of a new “artifact”—the dynamic case study—to complement a new approach to business and entrepreneurial education. After reviewing the function of case studies in a teaching and research context, I consider this new kind of case study as a boundary object and means for making sense of early stage entrepreneurial activity.

#ProjectDiane is digitalundivided's proprietary research study about the state of Black women in tech entrepreneurship in the United States.

The intention of this research is to reveal the humanity of the startup experience for American growth companies. This study is an ethnographic account of three Detroit-based entrepreneurial communities and the people within them. The dissertation findings reveal insights about organizational culture, representation, kinship, magic and faith.

From Fear to Faith: 10 Steps on the Spiritual Path of the Entrepreneur blends conversations about business ownership and spirituality in the context of the entrepreneurs' journey from fear to faith.