Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan

Barrett Hazeltine Professor of the Practice of Engineering

Overview

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Ph.D., is the Barrett Hazeltine Professor of the Practice of Engineering at the School of Engineering and the Founder and Director of the Venture Capital Inclusion Lab at the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship at Brown University. The Lab focuses on understanding and solving funding inequities in the VC industry through data-driven research, education and advocacy. Banu’s research interests are mainly in the areas of organizational culture and inclusion in venture capital and innovation ecosystems. Based on her expertise, Banu was invited to provide testimony on women and minority investors and entrepreneurs at the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship hearing on SBIC program reauthorization and has been a speaker on topics related to inclusion and innovation at the Harvard Business School, Brookings Institution, and Oxford University, among others. Banu contributed her expertise to a Brookings Institution publication on why the CHIPS and Science Act won’t build inclusive innovation ecosystems on its own. She is currently a member of CNBC’s Disruptor 50 Advisory Council and the NASDAQ Venture Equity Project.

Banu has served as joint editor-in-chief at Gender, Work & Organization, the top academic journal within women’s studies. She is a prolific academic researcher and scholar, placing among the top 2% of scientists globally. She is the author of Transnational Migration and The New Subjects of Work: Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans. Banu has two books with Cambridge University Press titled Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Critical Gender Perspective (2021) and A Transnational Approach to Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (forthcoming). Banu is currently researching the backlash to DEI. She earned her MBA from Loyola College in Maryland and her Ph.D. in Organization Studies from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.

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Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "Childhood fairy tales and cross-cultural entrepreneurial schema formation: Unexplored intersections." Journal of Business Venturing Insights, vol. 26, 2026, pp. e00651.

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Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "Towards a multiparadigmatic approach in critical cross-cultural management research: Possibilities from transnational migration studies." International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, vol. 26, no. 1, 2026, pp. 109-126.

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Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "A reflection on governance, ethics and intellectual boundary enforcement in academic journals." Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, vol. 44, no. 7, 2024, pp. 1024-1036.

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"Modern Classics in Entrepreneurship Studies." [], 2022.

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Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "Rethinking Social Capital: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as Contested Communities." Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings, 2022, pp. 69-87.

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Motoyama, Yasuyuki, Muntean, Susan Clark, Knowlton, Karren, Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "Causes of the gender divide within entrepreneurship ecosystems." Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, vol. 36, no. 3, 2021, pp. 187-204.

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Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu, Clark Muntean, Susan. "Entrepreneurial Ecosystems." [], 2021.

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MacNeil, Heatherjean, Wiehe Lopes, Amanda, Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu, Douglass, Anne. "Winsome Joy: from educator to entrepreneur." The CASE Journal, vol. 17, no. 5, 2021, pp. 649-659.

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Plotnikof, Mie, Bramming, Pia, Branicki, Layla, Christiansen, Lærke Højgaard, Henley, Kelly, Kivinen, Nina, de Lima, João Paulo Resende, Kostera, Monika, Mandalaki, Emmanouela, O'Shea, Saoirse, Özkazanç‐Pan, Banu, Pullen, Alison, Stewart, Jim, Ybema, Sierk, van Amsterdam, Noortje. "Catching a glimpse: Corona‐life and its micro‐politics in academia." Gender, Work & Organization, vol. 27, no. 5, 2020, pp. 804-826.

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Özkazanç-Pan, Banu. "Feminist Writing in a Gendered Transnational World: Women on the Move?." Writing Differently, 2020, pp. 13-24.

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Meléndez, Georgianna, Özkazanç-Pan, Banu. "Gender, race and power: an intersectional reading of “opting out”." Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, vol. 16, no. 3/4, 2020, pp. 658-673.

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Pullen, Alison, Lewis, Patricia, Ozkazanc‐Pan, Banu. "A critical moment: 25 years of Gender, Work and Organization." Gender, Work & Organization, vol. 26, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-8.

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Vashist, Aditi, Hewlin, Patricia Faison, Wu, Tina, Emily, Emily, Harrison, David A., Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu, Perkins, Susan, Ponce de Leon, Rebecca, Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Rosette, Ashleigh Shelby, Zhou Koval, Christy. "An Interdisciplinary Path for Intersectional Research." Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2019, no. 1, 2019, pp. 11342.

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Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "Diversity and future of work: inequality abound or opportunities for all?." Management Decision, vol. ahead-of-print, no. ahead-of-print, 2019, pp. 2645-2659.

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Banu Özkazanç-Pan. Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans. Bristol University Press, 2019.

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Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work: Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans. Bristol University Press, 2019.

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Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "Superdiversity”: a new paradigm for inclusion in a transnational world." Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, vol. 38, no. 4, 2019, pp. 477-490.

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Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "Bowen and Hisrich (1986) on the Female Entrepreneur: 30 Years of Research and New Directions for Gender and Entrepreneurship Scholarship." Foundational Research in Entrepreneurship Studies, 2018, pp. 103-126.

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Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "CSR as Gendered Neocoloniality in the Global South." Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 160, no. 4, 2018, pp. 851-864.

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"Foundational Research in Entrepreneurship Studies." [], 2018.

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Gupta, Vishal K., Guo, Grace Chun, Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "Introduction." Foundational Research in Entrepreneurship Studies, 2018, pp. 1-12.

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Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu, Clark Muntean, Susan. "Networking towards (in)equality: Women entrepreneurs in technology." Gender, Work & Organization, vol. 25, no. 4, 2018, pp. 379-400.

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Ozkazanc‐Pan, Banu. "On agency and empowerment in a #MeToo world." Gender, Work & Organization, vol. 26, no. 8, 2018, pp. 1212-1220.

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"Women in tech suffer because of American myth of meritocracy." The Conversation, 2018.

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Cetindamar, Dilek, Ozkazanc‐Pan, Banu. "Assessing mission drift at venture capital impact investors." Business Ethics: A European Review, vol. 26, no. 3, 2017, pp. 257-270.

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Gupta, Vishal K., Dutta, Dev K., Guo, Grace, Javadian, Golshan, Jiang, Crystal, Osorio, Arturo E., Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "Classics in entrepreneurship research: Enduring insights, future promises." New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, vol. 19, no. 1, 2016, pp. 7-23.

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Clark Muntean, Susan, Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "Feminist perspectives on social entrepreneurship: critique and new directions." International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, vol. 8, no. 3, 2016, pp. 221-241.

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Pan, Banu Ozkazanc, Muntean, Susan Clark. "International high-technology entrepreneurs: hybrid identities and entrepreneurial activities." J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development, vol. 9, no. 1, 2016, pp. 23.

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Muntean, Susan Clark, Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "A Gender integrative conceptualization of entrepreneurship." New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, vol. 18, no. 1, 2015, pp. 27-40.

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Osorio, Arturo E., Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu, Donnelly, Paul F. "An entrepreneurial context for the theory of the firm: Exploring assumptions and consequences." New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, vol. 18, no. 1, 2015, pp. 71-85.

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Özkazanç-Pan, Banu. "Secular and Islamic feminist entrepreneurship in Turkey." International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, vol. 7, no. 1, 2015, pp. 45-65.

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Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu. "Postcolonial feminist analysis of high-technology entrepreneuring." International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, vol. 20, no. 2, 2014, pp. 155-172.

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Donnelly, Paul F., Gabriel, Yiannis, Özkazanç‐Pan, Banu. "Untold stories of the field and beyond: narrating the chaos." Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 2013, pp. 4-15.

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Ozkazanc‐Pan, Banu. "Postcolonial feminist research: challenges and complexities." Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, vol. 31, no. 5/6, 2012, pp. 573-591.

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Özkazanç-Pan, Banu. "Publishing without betrayal: Critical scholarship meets mainstream journals." Scandinavian Journal of Management, vol. 28, no. 3, 2012, pp. 209-217.

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Özkazanç-Pan, Banu. "International Management Research Meets “The Rest of the World”." Academy of Management Review, vol. 33, no. 4, 2008, pp. 964-974.

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Research

Research Overview

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.

Scholarly Work

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.

Background

Education and Training

Year	Degree	Institution
2009	PhD	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2000	MBA	Loyola University

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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan

Barrett Hazeltine Professor of the Practice of Engineering

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