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The answer is yes. By using a unique and large data set on overdraft contracts between banks and microfirms and self-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any evidence that women are riskier then men. The...
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Background: Economy, business, and entrepreneurship are related to the world of men. Home, nurturing, and the family … belong to women's world, so the story goes. On the other hand, family entrepreneurship and its outcome, the family business … other economic and entrepreneurial activities, the field of family entrepreneurship has been only recently addressed by …
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Entrepreneurship has been considered the route towards European recovery and growth. The contribution of female … entrepreneurship is of utmost importance as women bring into business ventures attributes such as team spirit, synergy, intuition … entrepreneurship, feel the mentoring© is not restrained to it. It can be successfully applied with male entrepreneurs, employees or …
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What is being done to support female entrepreneurship and in particular promote the ways in which information and …'s entrepreneurship and how ICT facilitates and fosters it. The European Commission is dynamically promoting, supporting, and encouraging … female entrepreneurship. Europe needs more women entrepreneurs and actions are being taken to overcome the obstacles and …
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This research presents an examination of familial influence on strategic entrepreneurial behaviors within a transitional economic context. Utilizing a large sample of women-led family businesses, the study investigates the relationships between risk-taking propensity, entrepreneurial intensity,...
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segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and …
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Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample...
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, Amhara, and Oromiya), marital status (divorced and widowed), entrepreneurship training, enterprise’s license, and lack of … parents’ education, providing entrepreneurship training, sharing business experiences, supporting entrepreneurs is the main …
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In the present era, women are recognized as successful entrepreneurs through their strong desire, qualities, and capabilities for robust economic development. Due to such an important contribution of women in economic development, we propose to investigate the factors which affect women...
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develop professionally and succeed as an entrepreneur? What are the major barriers to successful entrepreneurship preventing … spotlight gender gaps in entrepreneurship as well as the sovalued career-family balance, while still arguing that further … research is needed. They also agree that successful entrepreneurship requires digital skills along with the drive for …
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