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Bank Loan Officers' Perceptions of the Characteristics of Men, Women and Successful Entrepreneurs.

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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.
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This article is published in Journal of Business Venturing.The article was published on 1988-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 339 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Loan & Entrepreneurship.

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Research on Women Business Owners: Past Trends, a New Perspective and Future Directions

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A theoretical overview and extension of research on sex, gender, and entrepreneurship

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored other potential differences related to discrimination and to socialization (which are hypothesized based on liberal and social feminism) and looked at their relationship to a more comprehensive set of business performance measures.
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Research on Women Entrepreneurs: Challenges to (and from) the Broader Entrepreneurship Literature?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors document the development of the body of work known as women's entrepreneurship research and assess the contributions of this work, specifically vis-a-vis the broader entrepreneurship literature.
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