Desislava Yordanova

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a conceptual framework for understanding gender differences in entrepreneurial intentions and identify factors that may account for the gender gap in entrepreneurial intention in a sample of Bulgarian university students.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how digital technologies affect the international expansion of female-led small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and found that digital technologies have the potential to democratize entre...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the gender effects on risk propensity, risk perception, and risk behavior of entrepreneurs distinguishing between direct and indirect gender effects, finding that female entrepreneurs have a lower risk propensity than male entrepreneurs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between the adoption of HRM practices in SMEs and the characteristics of the firm and the person responsible for HRM, and proposed a conceptual model based on the resource-based view, which is tested with quantitative data from 164 tourism SMEs in Catalonia (Spain).

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors proposed that entrepreneurial firm growth is shaped by both etic and emic forms of entrepreneurial readiness, which is comprised of entrepreneurial capability and willingness, and collected self-assessed data from entrepreneurs in Shanghai (N = 200, Study 1) and Bulgaria (N= 117, Study 3) and multiple-source data from Hong Kong (NÂ=Â158, Study 2) and revealed insights into entrepreneurial readiness and firm growth in general and in the Chinese context in particular.