Overseas Latino family business model in the United States Gupta Vipin, Ph.d., Professor and Co-director Global Management Center, College of Business and Public Administration, California State University – San Bernardino. Email: gupta05@gmail.com Abstract In this paper, we use a strategic management approach to construct a baseline business model of Overseas Family Businesses (OFBs), inspired by the historical experiences of the Asian OFBs in Asia and Africa. Though Asian OFBs have a long history of success in Asia and Africa, OFBs of many other ethnicities have also been pervasive for several generations around the world, including in the industrialized markets. In particular, Latino OFBs have long been prominent in the US, and a new wave of Latino OFBs is flourishing currently in the US. We review their experiences, in order to understand how they are creating, sustaining, sequencing, capturing, and championing value in the US. The analysis helps enrich our comparative knowledge of the OFBs, and has practical implications for the family businesses from the Asian region – both newly internationalizing as well as those aspiring to extend their internationalization into the industrialized markets. Top Keywords Ethnic entrepreneurship, Latino/Hispanic business, family business, business model. Top |