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Pisani, Michael

Professor / International Business

FACULTY

Biography

Dr. Pisani is a professor of international business, has taught collegiately for more than 33 years, and has been a faculty member at CMU since 2002. His research concerns the intersection of international business and development, and includes specific interests in economic informality, entrepreneurship, microenterprise development, sustainability, and international business and economic phenomena in the Americas (US-Mexico borderlands, Central America, Paraguay). Professor Pisani has authored or co-authored six books and more than 135 articles and book chapters. In 2019, Dr. Pisani served as a US Fulbright Scholar in Paraguay.

More about Michael Pisani

2025

  • Pisani, Michael J. (2025), “Formalidad/Informalidad y lenguaje en Paraguay” / “In/Formality and Language in Paraguay,” Nota de Política/Policy Note, Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguaya (CADEP), Asunción, Paraguay, May.

2024

  • Pisani, Michael J. (2024), “Scaled Latina Enterprises in the United States of America,” Administrative Sciences, 14(10), 245-257. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci14100245
  • Pisani, Michael J. (2024), “A National Profile of Latino Serial Entrepreneurs in the United States of America,” Businesses, 4(3), 426-437. https://doi.org/10.3390/businesses4030026
  • Pisani, Michael J., Alcides G. Cáceres-Zarate, José-Carlos Tello, and Silvio Eduardo Becker (2024), “An Emerging Economy Consumer View of Global Economic Rivals: Paraguay, China, and the United States of America,” AD-minister, 45, 93-115. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17230/ Ad-minister.45.6
  • Pisani, Michael J., Alcides G. Cáceres-Zarate, José-Carlos Tello, and Silvio Eduardo Becker (2024), “A Legacy of Animus in the Southern Cone of South America? Paraguayan Consumers’ Attitudes Towards Argentina and Brazil,” RAN – Revista Academia & Negocios, 10(1), 68-83. https://doi.org/10.29393/RAN10-5LAMS40005

2023

  • Pisani, Michael J. (2023), “Simplifying the Connection Between Acculturation and Ethnic Entrepreneurship Using Targeted Survey Questions for Quantitative Analyses,” Sage Research Method Cases in Business. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529667493
  • Pisani, Michael J., Alcides G. Cáceres-Zarate, José-Carlos Tello, and Silvio Eduardo Becker (2023), “Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side? Consumer Xenocentrism in Paraguay,” Fórum Empresarial, 27(2), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.33801/fe.v27i2.21137 

2022

  • Pisani, Michael J. (2022), “From Ethnic Market Niche to a Post-Ethnic Marketplace: A National Profile of Latino-Owned Business Market Orientation,” Latino Studies, 20(1), 94-117. DOI: 10.1057/s41276-022-00352-9.

2021

  • Pisani, Michael J. (2021), “New Age Informality: Hispanics and the Sharing Economy,” Administrative Sciences, 11(1), 23,1-23. doi.org/10.3390/admsci11010023

2020

  • Orozco, Marlene, Alfonso Morales, Michael J. Pisani, and Jerry I. Porras (Eds.), (2020), Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship: A New National Economic Imperative, West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
  • Pisani, Michael, Dionisio Borda, Fernando Ovando, and Diana García (2020), Emprendedurismo y Cuentapropismo en Paraguay (translated as Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in Paraguay), Asunción, Paraguay: Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (Inter-American Development Bank)/Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguaya, CADEP.
  • Pisani, Michael J. and Alfonso Morales (2020), “Informality and Latino-owned Businesses: A National Portrait of Unregistered Latino-owned Businesses,” Social Science Quarterly, 101(2), 588-603. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12763. 
  • Ph.D., International Business, University of Texas - Pan-American
  • M.A., Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico
  • M.B.A., International Management, University of New Mexico
  • A.B., International Relations & History, University of California, Davis

Courses Taught

ENT 213 Economics for Entrepreneurs
MBA 660 Global Business and Sustainability
MGT 360 Managing Cultural Differences and Diversity in a Global Economy
MGT 365 International Business

Integrate cross-cultural virtual learning in most classes with partners in Belize, Canada, Central America, Chile, Haiti, Mexico, Paraguay, and the USA. [Future partners include Brazil and South Korea.]