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Gender and entrepreneurship
Susan Marlow,Maura McAdam +1 more
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In this article, the authors argue that women-owned businesses are frequently described as underperforming in that the majority remain small and marginal and that such performance profiles reflect the constrained performance of most small firms.Abstract:
Purpose – Women‐owned businesses are frequently described as under‐performing in that the majority remain small and marginal. The authors dispute this description; within this paper, it is argued that such performance profiles reflect the constrained performance of most small firms. The assertion that women owned firms under‐perform reflects a gendered bias within the entrepreneurial discourse where femininity and deficit are deemed coterminous. In addition, women‐owned firms are expected to under‐perform given expectations of female weakness in the context of male normativity and superiority. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to critically evaluate the association between gender and business performance suggesting that this critique has implications for the broader development of our understanding of entrepreneuring behaviours.Design/methodology/approach – This is a conceptual research note which explores the notion of performance and under‐performance in the context of gender.Findings – It is argued...read more
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Barriers to ethnic minority and women's enterprise: existing evidence, policy tensions and unsettled questions
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Entrepreneurship-Specific Education and Entrepreneurial Intention: Do Female Students Benefit?
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Gender and innovation: state of the art and a research agenda
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Don’t Pitch Like a Girl!: How Gender Stereotypes Influence Investor Decisions
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Entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention: Do female students benefit?:
Paul Westhead,Marina Solesvik +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored links between entrepreneurship education participation, alertness and risk-taking skills and the intensity of entrepreneurial intention relating to becoming an entrepreneur, and found that women were significantly less likely to report high intensity of intention than men.
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