Michael J Pisani
Biographic Data
| ID | 82406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Pisani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Pisani |
| SIGNATURE | PISANI M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7773-5951 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From ethnic market niche to a post-ethnic marketplace: A national profile of Latino-owned business market orientation
Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship: A New National Economic Imperative
Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship examines business formation and success among Latinos by identifying arrangements that enhance entrepreneurship and by understanding the sociopolitical contexts that shape entrepreneurial trajectories. While it is well known that Latinos make up one of the largest and fastest growing populations in the U.S., Latino-owned businesses are now outpacing this population growth and the startup business growth of a…
Informality and Latino‐Owned Businesses: A National Portrait of Unregistered Latino‐Owned Businesses
Objective This study provides the first nationally representative portrait of unregistered (informal) Latino‐owned businesses (LOBs) in the United States. Methods We employ data from the 2018 Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative Survey of 4,024 U.S. LOBs. We estimate the determinants of unregistered LOBs through a set of independent variables derived from entrepreneur demographics/firm characteristics utilizing a binomial logistic regressi…
Off the Books’ Consumption: Determinants and Practice in Belize, Central America”
The purpose of this article is to explore the determinants, practice, and punishment risk of “off the books” consumption in Belize, Central America. We operationalize off the books consumption as market transactions that evade governmental oversight. Our data source is a 2014 random national sample of 1,534 Belizeans surveyed through the Latin America Public Opinion Project (LAPOP). An empirical model of off the books consumption explores the key…
Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados: Class and Culture on the South Texas Border
A classic account of life on the Texas-Mexico border, Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados offers the fullest portrait currently available of the people of the South Texas/Northern Mexico borderlands. First published in 1999, the book is now extensively revised and updated throughout to cover developments since 2000, including undocumented immigration, the drug wars, race relations, growing social inequality, and the socioeconomic gap between Lat…
Microfinance in Rural Haiti: A Case Study of Institutional Start-up & Microenterprise Development
HAPI-Kredi, a small not-for-profit microfinance institution (MFI), entered into the Haitian marketplace shortly after the devastating 2010 earthquake. HAPI-Kredi, with a mission to serve female entrepreneurs at the economic margins, emerged as a complementary financial service to HAPI, a young NGO with strong ties to the impoverished rural area of La Vallée, Haiti. This article highlights the challenges and opportunities of providing and growing …
Dollars and Scents: Alternative Currency Acceptance in Artisanal Markets in Guadalajara Mexico”
The recent globalization of tourism has connected international consumer and local artisan directly and more intensively. As foreign buyer and artisan seller interact, a variety of payment options and mechanisms may be considered, including cash transfers in the buyer's home currency. In this article, we report the findings of a June 2012 survey (n = 97) of U.S. dollar acceptance within inland artisanal markets in Guadalajara, Mexico. Even though…
Utilizing Informal Household-Work Substitutes along the US–Mexico Border: Evidence from South Texas
Utilizing a unique sample of 357 consumers from South Texas, this paper explores the informal or “off the books” consumption of house-work substitutes. Specifically, two ubiquitous house-work services, house cleaning and yard work, are examined. Regionally, these household maid and gardening services are typically exchanged within an informal cross-border market. As such the determinants of consuming these services are estimated from the perspect…
A matter of distance? Retailer acceptance of the US dollar in the Canadian plains
The continued economic integration of North America has connected cross-border shoppers along the US-Canadian border. This paper explores the use of the US dollar in Canadian retail establishments along a geographical spine in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada. We find that distance away from the border is inversely related to the rate of US dollar acceptance in Saskatchewan. More important to the acceptance decision, however, is business maturity…
Cross‐Border Consumption of Informal and Underground Goods: A Case Study of Alternative Consumerism in South Texas
Objective To explore the determinants of informal consumption of cross‐border goods from the South Texas‐Mexico border. Twelve select informal and underground goods are examined. Methods Derived from extensive interviews, a unique (and purposive) data set of 357 consumers from the South Texas borderlands was collected in the summer of 2010. Results Nearly two‐thirds (64.6 percent) of borderlands consumers have engaged in, at one time or another, …
A Study of Small Neighborhood Tienditas in Central America
We describe and benchmark tienditas (in-home convenience-like retail stores) and the tiendita business sector using a large sample of 850 tienditas from Nicaragua and El Salvador. Three research questions concerning tiendita business dynamism, informality, and competitive scope shape our article. In general, we find that tienditas may range from subsistence operations to dynamic business enterprises primarily run by female microentrepreneurs; the…
Substitution of Formal Health Care Services by Latinos/Hispanics in the US-Mexico Border Region of South Texas
BACKGROUND: Pervasive poverty and high uninsurance rates in the US-Mexico border region coupled with rising US health care costs and the availability of alternatives to formal US health services-both in the United States and Mexico-have resulted in widespread use of alternatives to formal US health care. OBJECTIVES: We investigate variation in the purchase of substitutes for formal US health services among border residents reporting health-relate…
Exchange rate premia and discounts for retail purchases using Mexican pesos in El Paso, Texas
This paper studies the exchange rates at which Mexican pesos are accepted for retail purchases in El Paso, Texas. A stratified random sample of 586 participating firms is surveyed to examine two aspects of reverse dollarization in the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez border region. The first is to determine the percentage of retail businesses in El Paso that accept foreign currency in the form of Mexican pesos. The results suggest that just over 13.1% (77/5…
From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912-1982 by Anne S. Macpherson
Economic informality on the U.S.‐Mexican border: A (re)view from South Texas
In this paper, we review and extend previous work on U.S.‐Mexico border economic informality with a special focus on the South Texas borderlands. Specifically, we offer three conceptual models of economic informality relevant to South Texas: 1) the informal marketplace at the border; 2) the confluence of (in)formality through the possession of different forms of personal documentation including the relationship between earnings and individual doc…
Opportunity Knocks: Entrepreneurship, informality and home gardening in South Texas
This paper explores small‐scale and primarily informal entrepreneurship through the lens of self‐employed home gardeners in South Texas. Though the study site of Laredo, Texas lies within the southwestern border area of the United States, South Texas is best characterized by: the underdevelopment of basic infrastructure (e.g., physical, educational, and social), the inadequate development of human resources and income, and the degraded environmen…
Grass, Sweat, and Sun: An Exploratory Study of the Labor Market for Gardeners in South Texas
Objective. This article takes a first exploratory step in understanding the market for home gardeners in the southwest borderlands (Laredo, Texas). Methods. A questionnaire was administered by a household member familiar with the present study who employed at least one gardener utilizing the snowball method of sample selection. Usable data (surveys) were collected from 244 individuals: 122 gardeners and 122 employers. Results. Gardeners in Laredo…
The Maid Trade: Cross‐Border Work in South Texas
Objective . The primary objective of this article is to investigate the “informal” marketplace for domestic servants (maids) in a border community in South Texas (Laredo). Methods . A questionnaire was administered by a household member familiar with the present study who employed at least one maid utilizing the snowball method of sample selection. Usable data (surveys) were collected from 389 individuals—195 maids and 194 employers. Results . Fo…
Contemporary Evangelicalism and Catholicism in Comparative Perspective: A Case Study from a Rural Nicaraguan Village
We must stir up a new springtime of holiness... No more violence, terrorism, or drug trafficking. No more torture or other forms of abuse... No more exploitation of the weak, race discrimination or poor slums. Never again. These are intolerable evils. This is our cry: Life with dignity for all, for all who have been conceived in their mother's womb, for street children, for indigenous people and... for those who suffer any kind of marginalization…
Por Necesidad” ‐ Transnational labor movements, informality and wage determination: An exploratory study of maids on the U.S.‐Mexican border
This paper investigates the market for domestic servants (maids) in a region along the U.S.‐Mexico border (Laredo, Texas). Survey responses from 195 maids and 194 employers of maids indicate that the border environment plays a significant role in the movement of maid labor, the informality of maid labor as well as the wage determination of maid labor. Two distinct maid subgroups—live‐in maids and day maids—as well as employers are discussed in de…
The Grimace of Macho Ratón: Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua
Nicaragua of the late 1990s has returned to the “popular” and academic backwaters that characterized Nicaraguan studies prior to 1979. Since the electoral defeat of the Sandinistas in 1990, researchers and internacionalistas have moved on; laudably, anthropologist Les Field has remained. In his continuing ethnographic research on a handful of potters in San Juan de Oriente (just south of Masaya) and in the Matagalpa/Jinotega region in Nicaragua, …
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora: Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana
Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700
The Paris Codex: Handbook for a Maya Priest
Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence
Preface *1. The Nahua Concept of Time and Space *2. Representation and Uses of the Past *3. The Conquest: A New Historical Protagonist and a New Historical Discourse *4. Transformation of Indigenous Memory and Resurgence of Mythic Memory *5. Creole Patriotism, Independence, and the Appearance of a National History * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography * Index
Grass, Sweat, and Sun: An Exploratory Study of the Labor Market for Gardeners in South Texas
Objective. This article takes a first exploratory step in understanding the market for home gardeners in the southwest borderlands (Laredo, Texas). Methods. A questionnaire was administered by a household member familiar with the present study who employed at least one gardener utilizing the snowball method of sample selection. Usable data (surveys) were collected from 244 individuals: 122 gardeners and 122 employers. Results. Gardeners in Laredo…
Economic informality on the U.S.‐Mexican border: A (re)view from South Texas
In this paper, we review and extend previous work on U.S.‐Mexico border economic informality with a special focus on the South Texas borderlands. Specifically, we offer three conceptual models of economic informality relevant to South Texas: 1) the informal marketplace at the border; 2) the confluence of (in)formality through the possession of different forms of personal documentation including the relationship between earnings and individual doc…
The Maid Trade: Cross‐Border Work in South Texas
Objective . The primary objective of this article is to investigate the “informal” marketplace for domestic servants (maids) in a border community in South Texas (Laredo). Methods . A questionnaire was administered by a household member familiar with the present study who employed at least one maid utilizing the snowball method of sample selection. Usable data (surveys) were collected from 389 individuals—195 maids and 194 employers. Results . Fo…
Por Necesidad” ‐ Transnational labor movements, informality and wage determination: An exploratory study of maids on the U.S.‐Mexican border
This paper investigates the market for domestic servants (maids) in a region along the U.S.‐Mexico border (Laredo, Texas). Survey responses from 195 maids and 194 employers of maids indicate that the border environment plays a significant role in the movement of maid labor, the informality of maid labor as well as the wage determination of maid labor. Two distinct maid subgroups—live‐in maids and day maids—as well as employers are discussed in de…
Opportunity Knocks: Entrepreneurship, informality and home gardening in South Texas
This paper explores small‐scale and primarily informal entrepreneurship through the lens of self‐employed home gardeners in South Texas. Though the study site of Laredo, Texas lies within the southwestern border area of the United States, South Texas is best characterized by: the underdevelopment of basic infrastructure (e.g., physical, educational, and social), the inadequate development of human resources and income, and the degraded environmen…
Exchange rate premia and discounts for retail purchases using Mexican pesos in El Paso, Texas
This paper studies the exchange rates at which Mexican pesos are accepted for retail purchases in El Paso, Texas. A stratified random sample of 586 participating firms is surveyed to examine two aspects of reverse dollarization in the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez border region. The first is to determine the percentage of retail businesses in El Paso that accept foreign currency in the form of Mexican pesos. The results suggest that just over 13.1% (77/5…
Informality and Latino‐Owned Businesses: A National Portrait of Unregistered Latino‐Owned Businesses
Objective This study provides the first nationally representative portrait of unregistered (informal) Latino‐owned businesses (LOBs) in the United States. Methods We employ data from the 2018 Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative Survey of 4,024 U.S. LOBs. We estimate the determinants of unregistered LOBs through a set of independent variables derived from entrepreneur demographics/firm characteristics utilizing a binomial logistic regressi…
Cross‐Border Consumption of Informal and Underground Goods: A Case Study of Alternative Consumerism in South Texas
Objective To explore the determinants of informal consumption of cross‐border goods from the South Texas‐Mexico border. Twelve select informal and underground goods are examined. Methods Derived from extensive interviews, a unique (and purposive) data set of 357 consumers from the South Texas borderlands was collected in the summer of 2010. Results Nearly two‐thirds (64.6 percent) of borderlands consumers have engaged in, at one time or another, …
Utilizing Informal Household-Work Substitutes along the US–Mexico Border: Evidence from South Texas
Utilizing a unique sample of 357 consumers from South Texas, this paper explores the informal or “off the books” consumption of house-work substitutes. Specifically, two ubiquitous house-work services, house cleaning and yard work, are examined. Regionally, these household maid and gardening services are typically exchanged within an informal cross-border market. As such the determinants of consuming these services are estimated from the perspect…
Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence
Preface *1. The Nahua Concept of Time and Space *2. Representation and Uses of the Past *3. The Conquest: A New Historical Protagonist and a New Historical Discourse *4. Transformation of Indigenous Memory and Resurgence of Mythic Memory *5. Creole Patriotism, Independence, and the Appearance of a National History * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography * Index
Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence
Sack of Veracruz
The Paris Codex: Handbook for a Maya Priest
Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora: Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana
Contemporary Evangelicalism and Catholicism in Comparative Perspective: A Case Study from a Rural Nicaraguan Village
We must stir up a new springtime of holiness... No more violence, terrorism, or drug trafficking. No more torture or other forms of abuse... No more exploitation of the weak, race discrimination or poor slums. Never again. These are intolerable evils. This is our cry: Life with dignity for all, for all who have been conceived in their mother's womb, for street children, for indigenous people and... for those who suffer any kind of marginalization…
Por Necesidad” ‐ Transnational labor movements, informality and wage determination: An exploratory study of maids on the U.S.‐Mexican border
This paper investigates the market for domestic servants (maids) in a region along the U.S.‐Mexico border (Laredo, Texas). Survey responses from 195 maids and 194 employers of maids indicate that the border environment plays a significant role in the movement of maid labor, the informality of maid labor as well as the wage determination of maid labor. Two distinct maid subgroups—live‐in maids and day maids—as well as employers are discussed in de…
The Grimace of Macho Ratón: Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua
Nicaragua of the late 1990s has returned to the “popular” and academic backwaters that characterized Nicaraguan studies prior to 1979. Since the electoral defeat of the Sandinistas in 1990, researchers and internacionalistas have moved on; laudably, anthropologist Les Field has remained. In his continuing ethnographic research on a handful of potters in San Juan de Oriente (just south of Masaya) and in the Matagalpa/Jinotega region in Nicaragua, …
The Maid Trade: Cross‐Border Work in South Texas
Objective . The primary objective of this article is to investigate the “informal” marketplace for domestic servants (maids) in a border community in South Texas (Laredo). Methods . A questionnaire was administered by a household member familiar with the present study who employed at least one maid utilizing the snowball method of sample selection. Usable data (surveys) were collected from 389 individuals—195 maids and 194 employers. Results . Fo…
Grass, Sweat, and Sun: An Exploratory Study of the Labor Market for Gardeners in South Texas
Objective. This article takes a first exploratory step in understanding the market for home gardeners in the southwest borderlands (Laredo, Texas). Methods. A questionnaire was administered by a household member familiar with the present study who employed at least one gardener utilizing the snowball method of sample selection. Usable data (surveys) were collected from 244 individuals: 122 gardeners and 122 employers. Results. Gardeners in Laredo…
Opportunity Knocks: Entrepreneurship, informality and home gardening in South Texas
This paper explores small‐scale and primarily informal entrepreneurship through the lens of self‐employed home gardeners in South Texas. Though the study site of Laredo, Texas lies within the southwestern border area of the United States, South Texas is best characterized by: the underdevelopment of basic infrastructure (e.g., physical, educational, and social), the inadequate development of human resources and income, and the degraded environmen…
Economic informality on the U.S.‐Mexican border: A (re)view from South Texas
In this paper, we review and extend previous work on U.S.‐Mexico border economic informality with a special focus on the South Texas borderlands. Specifically, we offer three conceptual models of economic informality relevant to South Texas: 1) the informal marketplace at the border; 2) the confluence of (in)formality through the possession of different forms of personal documentation including the relationship between earnings and individual doc…
From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912-1982 by Anne S. Macpherson
Exchange rate premia and discounts for retail purchases using Mexican pesos in El Paso, Texas
This paper studies the exchange rates at which Mexican pesos are accepted for retail purchases in El Paso, Texas. A stratified random sample of 586 participating firms is surveyed to examine two aspects of reverse dollarization in the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez border region. The first is to determine the percentage of retail businesses in El Paso that accept foreign currency in the form of Mexican pesos. The results suggest that just over 13.1% (77/5…
A Study of Small Neighborhood Tienditas in Central America
We describe and benchmark tienditas (in-home convenience-like retail stores) and the tiendita business sector using a large sample of 850 tienditas from Nicaragua and El Salvador. Three research questions concerning tiendita business dynamism, informality, and competitive scope shape our article. In general, we find that tienditas may range from subsistence operations to dynamic business enterprises primarily run by female microentrepreneurs; the…
Substitution of Formal Health Care Services by Latinos/Hispanics in the US-Mexico Border Region of South Texas
BACKGROUND: Pervasive poverty and high uninsurance rates in the US-Mexico border region coupled with rising US health care costs and the availability of alternatives to formal US health services-both in the United States and Mexico-have resulted in widespread use of alternatives to formal US health care. OBJECTIVES: We investigate variation in the purchase of substitutes for formal US health services among border residents reporting health-relate…
Cross‐Border Consumption of Informal and Underground Goods: A Case Study of Alternative Consumerism in South Texas
Objective To explore the determinants of informal consumption of cross‐border goods from the South Texas‐Mexico border. Twelve select informal and underground goods are examined. Methods Derived from extensive interviews, a unique (and purposive) data set of 357 consumers from the South Texas borderlands was collected in the summer of 2010. Results Nearly two‐thirds (64.6 percent) of borderlands consumers have engaged in, at one time or another, …
Dollars and Scents: Alternative Currency Acceptance in Artisanal Markets in Guadalajara Mexico”
The recent globalization of tourism has connected international consumer and local artisan directly and more intensively. As foreign buyer and artisan seller interact, a variety of payment options and mechanisms may be considered, including cash transfers in the buyer's home currency. In this article, we report the findings of a June 2012 survey (n = 97) of U.S. dollar acceptance within inland artisanal markets in Guadalajara, Mexico. Even though…
Utilizing Informal Household-Work Substitutes along the US–Mexico Border: Evidence from South Texas
Utilizing a unique sample of 357 consumers from South Texas, this paper explores the informal or “off the books” consumption of house-work substitutes. Specifically, two ubiquitous house-work services, house cleaning and yard work, are examined. Regionally, these household maid and gardening services are typically exchanged within an informal cross-border market. As such the determinants of consuming these services are estimated from the perspect…
A matter of distance? Retailer acceptance of the US dollar in the Canadian plains
The continued economic integration of North America has connected cross-border shoppers along the US-Canadian border. This paper explores the use of the US dollar in Canadian retail establishments along a geographical spine in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada. We find that distance away from the border is inversely related to the rate of US dollar acceptance in Saskatchewan. More important to the acceptance decision, however, is business maturity…
Microfinance in Rural Haiti: A Case Study of Institutional Start-up & Microenterprise Development
HAPI-Kredi, a small not-for-profit microfinance institution (MFI), entered into the Haitian marketplace shortly after the devastating 2010 earthquake. HAPI-Kredi, with a mission to serve female entrepreneurs at the economic margins, emerged as a complementary financial service to HAPI, a young NGO with strong ties to the impoverished rural area of La Vallée, Haiti. This article highlights the challenges and opportunities of providing and growing …
Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados: Class and Culture on the South Texas Border
A classic account of life on the Texas-Mexico border, Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados offers the fullest portrait currently available of the people of the South Texas/Northern Mexico borderlands. First published in 1999, the book is now extensively revised and updated throughout to cover developments since 2000, including undocumented immigration, the drug wars, race relations, growing social inequality, and the socioeconomic gap between Lat…
Off the Books’ Consumption: Determinants and Practice in Belize, Central America”
The purpose of this article is to explore the determinants, practice, and punishment risk of “off the books” consumption in Belize, Central America. We operationalize off the books consumption as market transactions that evade governmental oversight. Our data source is a 2014 random national sample of 1,534 Belizeans surveyed through the Latin America Public Opinion Project (LAPOP). An empirical model of off the books consumption explores the key…
Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship: A New National Economic Imperative
Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship examines business formation and success among Latinos by identifying arrangements that enhance entrepreneurship and by understanding the sociopolitical contexts that shape entrepreneurial trajectories. While it is well known that Latinos make up one of the largest and fastest growing populations in the U.S., Latino-owned businesses are now outpacing this population growth and the startup business growth of a…
Sociology (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Geography (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (9 works) · Taxation and Compliance Studies (9 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · History (7 works)