E. Holly Buttner

TL;DR: Shane, Kolvereid, and Westhead as discussed by the authors investigated four important issues: (1) What motivational influences affect former managerial or professional women's entrepreneurial decisions; (2) What role family concerns play in these former corporate women's entrepreneurship motivation; (3) How these female entrepreneurs measure success in their ventures; and (4) Whether the women entrepreneurial motivation is related to the ways they measure success.

TL;DR: This article examined factors that enhance the perceived adequacy of explanations for bad news and found that the specificity of the explanation's substance accounted for more variance in judgments of explanation adequacy than did the interpersonal sensitivity of explanation's delivery.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that women are perceived as less like successful entrepreneurs compared to men, while men were more likely to possess the characteristics necessary for successful entrepreneurship, such as leadership, autonomy, risk taking, readiness for change, endurance, lack of emotionalism, low need for support, low conformity, and persuasiveness.

TL;DR: Moore and Buttner as mentioned in this paper explored the increasingly popular choice of exiting the organization and creating one's own business by examining the occupational transitions of 129 highly accomplished women entrepreneurs from across the United States.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the results of a qualitative analysis of female entrepreneurs' accounts of their role in their organizations using Relational Theory as the analytical frame, finding that women used a relational approach in working with employees and clients.