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).