автор: Alfonso Morales

Marlene Orozco is the lead research analyst with the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI) and a Ph D candidate in sociology. She is trained in both qualitative and quantitative methods of research and is an Institute of Education Sciences fellow in quantitative education policy analysis. Alfonso Morales is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture. He is interested in the relationship among thinking, interaction, and social organization. He has authored, edited, or coauthored more than one hundred articles and book chapters and six books. Michael J. Pisani is a professor of international business at Central Michigan University. His research concerns the intersection of international business and development, with specific interests in entrepreneurship, economic informality, cross-border business, and economic phenomena. He has authored or coauthored more than one hundred articles and book chapters and four books. Jerry I. Porras is the Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He cofounded the Latino Business Action Network (LBAN), a nonprofit focused on promoting the growth of Latino-owned businesses. Subsequently, the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI), a collaboration between the Stanford Graduate School of Businesses and the LBAN, was created to conduct research on Latino entrepreneurship and offer educational programs to help Latino business owners scale their companies to become very large enterprises. Porras serves as faculty codirector of SLEI.