Banu's research interests focus on diversity and inclusion in technology and innovation ecosystems as well as in entrepreneurial ecosystems nationally and globally. Her research on networks in technology incubators and accelerators demonstrates how the benefits of social networks in such contexts may not benefit women entrepreneurs and how such organizations may end up playing a gatekeeping role in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Her current research focuses on the backlash to DEI.

Select journal publications:

Özkazanç-Pan, B. (2026). Childhood fairy tales and cross-cultural entrepreneurial schema formation: Unexplored intersections. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 26 (6), DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2026.e00651

Özkazanç-Pan, B. (2026). Towards a multiparadigmatic approach in critical cross-cultural management research: possibilities from transnational migration studies, International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, DOI: 10.1177/14705958261424655

Özkazanç-Pan, B. (2025). A reflection on governance, ethics and intellectual boundary enforcement in academic journals.  Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 44 (7): 1024–1036. DOI: 10.1108/EDI-09-2024-0421

Özkazanç-Pan, B. (2022), "Rethinking Social Capital: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as Contested Communities", Eberhart, R.N., Lounsbury, M. and Aldrich, H.E. (Eds.) Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 82), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 69-87. DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20220000082004

Motoyama, Y., Clark Muntean, S., Knowlton, K., and Özkazanç-Pan, B. (2021). Causes of the gender divide within entrepreneurship ecosystems. Local Economy, DOI: 10.1177/0269094221995783

Select book chapters:

Özbilgin, M., and Özkazanç-Pan, B. (forthcoming). “The Epistemic Violence of White Feminism in Social Sciences” in Decolonising Feminisms at times of Anti-Gender Movements

Özkazanç-Pan, B. (forthcoming). “Decolonial feminism and intersectionality” in Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Intersectionality 

Özkazanç-Pan, B. (forthcoming). “Gender and entrepreneurial ecosystems”in Stam, E., Wurth, B. & Mawson, S. (Eds), Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. 

Özkazanç-Pan, B. (forthcoming). “A Decade Later: Postcolonial Feminist Contributions to Cross-Cultural Management”, in Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management.

Özkazanç-Pan, B. (forthcoming). “Critical Innovation Studies”, in Verduijn, J. K., Berglund, K., Olsson, A., and Ozasir-Kacar, S. (Eds.), Research Handbook on Critical Entrepreneurship Studies. Edward Elgar.

Books:

Özkazanç-Pan, B. (Forthcoming 2027). Transnational Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Cambridge University Press.

Özkazanç-Pan, B. and Clark Muntean, S. (2021). Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Gender Perspective. Cambridge University Press.

Özkazanç-Pan, B., Dutta, D., Gupta, V., Guo, G., Javidan, G., and Osorio, A. (Eds).  (2021). Future Directions in Entrepreneurship Research: Defining the Future of the Field. Palgrave-MacMillan.

Özkazanç-Pan, B. (2019). Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work: Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans. Bristol University Press/University of Chicago Press.

G. Javidan, V. K. Gupta, D. K. Dutta, G. C. Guo, A. E. Osorio, and B. Özkazanç-Pan (Eds.)(2018), Foundational Research in Entrepreneurship Studies: Insightful Contributions and Future Pathways, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-73528-3_12 Palgrave Macmillan.

 

 

 

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