National Minority Business Owners Surveys Key Personnel Edward Rogoff Co-Principal Investigator Baruch College, CUNY
[email protected] (646) 312-3632 Myung-Soo Lee Co-Principal Investigator Baruch College, CUNY
[email protected] (646) 312-3048 Ramona Heck Professor Baruch College, CUNY
[email protected] (646) 312-3649
URL www.zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/fieldcenter-forum/
Funding Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Type of Data Non-government survey data
Availability of Data Set Restricted, off-site access provided upon request
Activity Measured 2001 through 2005
Data Collected 2003 through 2005
Related Past Data 1997 and 2000 National Family Business Surveys
OVERVIEW The National Minority Business Owners Surveys (NMBOS) constitute a multi-year data collection effort supported by the Minority Business Research Group (MBRG)—a consortium of researchers from Baruch College, the larger City University of New York system, and other schools nationwide. NMBOS’ purpose is to explore minority entrepreneurship issues by examining business ownership patterns among African-American, Korean-American, and Mexican-American populations, and White populations. The 2003 NMBOS (Whites and Blacks) and the 2005 NMBOS (Koreans and Mexicans) explored the impact of education, gender, family structure, family responsibilities, capital access, business experience, personal goals, family goals, business management, and business performance on business ownership patterns.
PROCEDURES FOR ACCESSING THE DATA SET To access the NMBOS data set, researchers should first request a user ID and password from Lendynette Pacheco (
[email protected]). Researchers can thereafter access the MBRG Web site, download codebooks, view working papers, and initiate paper declarations (www.zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/ field-center-forum/declarations). Completed declarations should be submitted to Ed Rogoff for approval; an original research team member must be included as a co-author. After a declaration is approved and posted to the Web site, researchers can request data analysis or raw data.
METHODOLOGY The 2003 and 2005 NMBOS represent a concerted research effort to use nationally representative sampling frames to reach select minority populations and their families, and to use in-depth interviews for both the business and the household. Telephone interviews were completed between 2003 and 2005 with African-American, KoreanAmerican, Mexican-American, and White American business owners, with at least 200 responses from each group. To qualify for the survey, an owner-manager had to have: (1) been in business for at least one year; (2) worked at least 320 hours per year in the business; (3) been involved in the day-to-day management of the business; and (4) resided with another family member. The interviews’ purpose was to systematically explore minority entrepreneurship issues to reveal patterns of business ownership, and to compare and contrast the minority group samples with a non-minority sample of White business owners. Because telephone interviews with Mexican-American and KoreanAmerican entrepreneurs were conducted in their native languages, if requested, the survey instrument was translated into Spanish and Korean. Following the research design of interviewing household managers and business managers separately, along with initial screening questions of ethnicity and eligibility for family business NATIONAL MINORITY BUSINESS OWNERS SURVEYS
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definition, four sets of instruments were used: a screening questionnaire, a household questionnaire, a business manager questionnaire, and a combined questionnaire (to be used when one person managed both household and business). This combined questionnaire was most often used with the White and African-American samples. Data in both the Korean-American and Mexican-American minority samples were gleaned from a combined questionnaire only.
SURVEY INSTRUMENT(S) Survey questions and research code books are available at www.zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/field-centerforum/meeting-minutes after sign-up with the Web site administrator (
[email protected]).
BIBLIOGRAPHY Puryear, A., E.G. Rogoff, R.K.Z. Heck, E.B. Grossman, G.W. Hayes, and J. Onochie. Sampling minority business owners and their families: The understudied entrepreneurial experience. Conditional acceptance at Journal of Small Business Management. Lee, M.-S. Exploring the impact of education on Korean-American entrepreneurs. Under journal review. Onochie, J. Financial intermingling in Korean-American and Mexican-American small business. Under journal review. Blockson, L.C. A profile of women business owners (WBMK): An exploratory study. Cardon, M., R. Shinnar, M. Eisenman, and E. Rogoff. Human capital, goals, and outcomes for minority entrepreneurs. Danes, S.M., A.N. Puryear, E. Grossman, K. Stafford, M.-S. Lee, E.G. Rogoff, and R.K.Z. Heck. The minority entrepreneurial experience: An adaptation of the sustainable family business model. Grossman, E., and R. Nahata. Minority business owners: Bootstrapping their way to success. Lee, Y.G. Intermingling of time, labor, and money in farm and non-farm family-owned businesses. Lee, Y.G. Cash flow problems among minority-owned family business. Lee, Y.G. Succession planning in minority-owned family business. Onochie, J. What is the influence of financial structure on ethnic family business success? Onochie, J. What is the influence of social networks on debt structure of ethnic family business? Shelton, L., S. Danes, and M. Eisenman. The impact of work-family conflict on the business performance of minority entrepreneurs. Shinnar, R., M. Cardon, M. Eisenman, and R. Heck. Mexican immigrant and Mexican-American entrepreneurs: Motivations, goals, and self-assessments of success.
UNDERUTILIZED TOPICS The size and scope of the data set are such that numerous topics remain unaddressed and available for analysis.
FUTURE Future plans include longitudinal elaboration of the current work and expansion to address more ethnic groups. Data collection efforts with respect to respondent financial information also need be revisited.
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