The number of women starting and owning their own businesses has grown dramatically over the past decade. Concurrent with this trend, there been an increase in research studies focusing on or including business owners samples. This paper reviews empirical ventures, classifies a framework, summarizes trends emerging from research. To guide future research, new perspective women-owned is proposed questions, methods, implications are discussed.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a new gender‐aware framework provide springboard for furthering holistic understanding women's entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach builds on an existing articulating the “3Ms” (markets, money and management) required entrepreneurs launch grow ventures. Drawing institutional theory, it argued that “3M” needs further development “motherhood” “meso/macro environment” are added extend mediate construct “5M” enable study entrepreneurship in...

Strategies for attaining competitive advantages emphasize developing and configuring existing resource strengths into a valuable unique base. But what if you do not yet have legacy of strengths? Entrepreneurs in emerging organizations must first assemble resources, then combine them to build platform that will yield distinctive capabilities. The case studies included this article illustrate the challenges entrepreneurs confront identifying, attracting, combining, transforming personal...

This paper has three overarching objectives. The first is to document the development of body work known as women's entrepreneurship research. second assess contributions this work, specifically vis-à-vis broader literature. third discuss how literature poses challenges (both difficulties well opportunities) for scholarship on female entrepreneurs. We approach these objectives from standpoint informed pluralism, seeking explore whether and research offers extensions to—and can be extended...

Most would agree that the dramatic growth and participation of women in entrepreneurship expanding body research creates a need for both generic specific theoretical perspectives approaches to better understand this phenomenon. To address need, we consider issues relevant advancing framework women’s research. However, it is not our intention establish some reduced parameters study entrepreneurship; rather, concur with Gartner “. . espouses diverse range theories applied various kinds...

Literature on the creation of organizations is often cast within a masculine gender framework. This paper draws from three theoretical perspectives to develop new perspective that broadens view organizational by encompassing relative balance feminine and in entrepreneur's venture start-up process attributes. We elaborate relatively less visible personal compare this with traditional or perspective. Important discussion distinction between biology (sex: male female, man woman) socialized...

This paper develops an organizational identity–based rationale for why family firms strive nonfinancial goals. We show that the visibility of in firm, transgenerational sustainability intentions family, and capability firm self–enhancement positively influence importance identity fit between as well family's concern corporate reputation. suggest reputation leads to pursue goals benefit nonfamily stakeholders. also discuss reinforcing feedback loops these processes.

This paper has three overarching objectives. The first is to document the development of body work known as women's entrepreneurship research. second assess contributions this work, specifically vis-à-vis broader literature. third discuss how literature poses challenges (both difficulties well opportunities) for scholarship on female entrepreneurs. We approach these objectives from standpoint informed pluralism, seeking explore whether and research offers extensions to—and can be extended...

The dramatic expansion of scholarly interest and activity in the field women's entrepreneurship within recent years has done much to correct historical inattention paid female entrepreneurs their initiatives. Yet, as continues develop mature, there are increasingly strong calls for scholars take research new directions. Within this introduction special issue, we expand upon reasons call, describe who responded, summarize frontiers explored work appearing another related collection. We...

This article examines individual factors influencing performance of 200 Israeli women-owned businesses. Whereas research on women entrepreneurs is extensive in developed countries, especially the United States and Europe, there are comparatively few studies businesses non-OECD countries. There evidence that social structures (work, family, organized life) vary among developing countries as these relate to entrepreneurs. However, differences have not been considered they may theories...

Dorothy P. Moore and E. Holly Buttner, in their book ‘Women Entrepreneurs: Moving Beyond the Glass Ceiling,’ explore increasingly popular choice of exiting organization creating one's own business by examining occupational transitions 129 highly accomplished women entrepreneurs from across United States. Although not intended as a study new boundaryless career concept (Arthur & Rousseau, 1996), provides detailed picture how some individuals are crossing organizational boundaries designing...

This is one of the first efforts to systematically study attributes women business owners and their equity financing strategies. The explored factors associated with use capital in led firms. Hypotheses examined influence human social on likelihood seeking funding, access funding sources, bootstrapping techniques development financial Data for this came from a survey 235 US conducted by National Foundation Women Business Owners sample identified Dun Bradstreet. Results showed only graduate...

Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes Note 1. The Diana Project was founded by Candida Brush, Nancy Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia Greene and Myra Hart in 1996. It is a multi-university longitudinal research programme determine influence the factors that lead high-growth, women-led ventures, investigating supply of demand for resources ventures comparing growth models male- female-led ventures. Further details on purpose publications can be found at http://www.dianaproject.org.

Firm growth is widely considered to be a measure of success for entrepreneurial businesses. Data indicate that there are systematic differences between minority and nonminority-owned firms with respect growth. Black entrepreneurs 50 percent more likely engage in start-up activities than white entrepreneurs, however, black-owned smaller less profitable their white-owned counterparts. Following the effort–performance–outcome–logic expectancy theory using data from Panel Study Entrepreneurial...

Entrepreneurship courses are vital components of a business school curriculum. Although existing studies examine teaching pedagogy, very few explore the content entrepreneurship courses. We compare start-up activities nascent entrepreneurs in Panel Study Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED) dataset to data collected from sample textbooks. Our findings indicate that while there is some overlap practiced by and those covered textbooks, several differences as well. Implications for discussed.

We consider the role that gender-stereotyped behaviors play in investors’ evaluations of men- and women-owned ventures. Contrary to research suggesting investors exhibit bias against women, we find being a woman entrepreneur does not diminish interest by investors. Rather, our findings reveal are biased display feminine-stereotyped entrepreneurs, men women alike. Our study finds investor decisions driven part observations implicit associations with entrepreneur’s business competency, rather than sex.

COVID-19 is unique in the severity of its impact as it a humanitarian disaster that has caused both supply and demand shock to global economic system. It disproportionately affected women entrepreneurs their firms are younger smaller. In this commentary, we contend while all businesses must pivot business models times tumultuous change, simultaneously reducing risk seizing new opportunities, particularly difficult for entrepreneurs, whose concentrated industry sectors most severely by...

High-growth firms, often referred to as “gazelles,” are equated with entrepreneurial success and celebrated the key growing economies, women’s entrepreneurship is a vehicle of economic social development. This special issue publishes papers that address general lack research on high-growth entrepreneurship. In this introduction paper, we offer an adapted framework for factors driving high growth across multiple levels: individual (entrepreneur team characteristics), venture (strategy,...

According to recent studies applying Resource-Based Theory [RBT] entrepreneurial firms (e.g. Chandler & Hanks, 1994; Brush Greene, 1996), in the early stages of new venture development it is identification and acquisition resources—rather than deployment or allocation activities—that crucial for firm's long-term success (Stevenson Gumpert, 1985). This study explores that relationship longitudinally, tracking salient resources three rapidly growing ventures, analyzing how these change...