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Del Norte Meets Little Saigon: Ethnic Entrepreneurship on Broadway Avenue in Wichita, Kansas, 1970–2015

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2017

JAY M. PRICE ,
SUE ABDINNOUR  and
DAVID T. HUGHES
JAY M. PRICE
Affiliation:
Jay M. Price directs the Local and Community History Program at Wichita State University. His major publications include Temples for a Modern God: Religious Architecture in Postwar America and Gateways to the Southwest: The Story of Arizona State Parks. His other research has included books, articles, documentaries, talks, and exhibits that cover aspects of the local and regional story, including the history of the Lebanese community, the African American community, aviation, ethnic entrepreneurship, Tornado Alley, the oil industry, the Cherokee Strip, local rock bands, religious architecture, and regional identity. Several of these projects have involved students who serve as co-authors and co-researchers. E-mail: jay.price@wichita.edu
SUE ABDINNOUR
Affiliation:
Sue Abdinnour is Omer Professor and Kansas Faculty of Distinction in the Barton School of Business at Wichita State University, where she has been teaching at the undergraduate and the graduate levels since 1998. She received her Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington, and her M.Sc. from University of Southampton, UK. Her research interests include operations management, business modeling, information systems, and ethnic entrepreneurship. She publishes her research in elite academic and practitioner journals, such as Decision Sciences Journal and European Journal of Operations Research. She also consults with local businesses and trains executive professionals on various topics, including operations management strategy, lean principles, quality control, and capacity planning. E-mail: sue.abdinnour@wichita.edu
DAVID T. HUGHES
Affiliation:
David T. Hughes in an anthropological archeologist at Wichita State University; his primary focus has been on prehistoric trade and exchange networks across the southern Great Plains of the United States. His somewhat eclectic career as a field scientist has led him to explore Pleistocene Mammoth remains, middle-prehistoric bison kill sites, and late prehistoric village period sites (see www.texasbeyondhistory.net/villagers/buriedcity/index.html). He has also worked on ethnographic overviews of the Pipestone Quarries in Minnesota and the Agate Fossil Beds/Scotts Bluff National Monument. Over the past few years, he has begun to combine these disparate interests through analysis with geographic information systems, and was instrumental in beginning a GIS program at WSU. E-mail: david.hughes@wichita.edu
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Abstract

Since the 1970s, a stretch of Broadway Avenue in Wichita, Kansas, has seen the growth of both Latino and Asian businesses. Using mapping, data analysis, and historical research, this study compares the growth of ethnic entrepreneurship between both populations. The results not only reveal similarities but also illustrate the degree to which ethnic entrepreneurship varies, depending on a population’s situation in a given location.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , September 2017 , pp. 632 - 677
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