The study identifies the various reasons why women become entrepreneurs, considering their life cycle and the factors … that have encouraged them, using the qualitative paradigm based on case studies of twenty-four women entrepreneurs in Peru …. The research identified six profiles according to the different routes by which women choose entrepreneurship: Young Women …

This article investigates work–family conflict of women entrepreneurs in Israel. On the basis of the resource theory … through a questionnaire administered to a convenient sample of 111 women entrepreneurs in Israel. Degree of family support … influenced intensity of the work–family conflict for all three groups of women entrepreneurs, but those from the Former Soviet …

entrepreneurship. The analysis concludes that the empirical knowledge of entrepreneurs, in this case were not suffi cient to direct the … undertake this business, based on the theory of resources and skills of entrepreneurship and business. It is intended to answer … the question, what were the successes and failures committed by entrepreneurs to run the business plan in this particular …

This paper examines whether women entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector in the small island economy of …. Survey data of 158 women entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector in Mauritius is used to assess the impact of the … entrepreneurs have been affected by the global financial crisis in two ways. The first is that they have been affected through …

The field of Entrepreneurship is experiencing worldwide not only a renaissance but a revolution in which women tend to … play an important role. Are women entrepreneurs good for the economic development? What is their contribution to a … healthier economy? Is Entrepreneurship more suitable for males than females? How strong the gender stereotypes are and how can …

The Indonesian government has been trying to encourage entrepreneurship development by supporting the development of … entrepreneurs is low. Third, women entrepreneurs are less educated than their men counterparts. Fourth, the main constraints faced … by small entrepreneurs are lack of working capital and marketing difficulties. Finally, the majority of existing studies …

This study examines the demographic profile of "Tamil" women entrepreneurs in the North East of Sri Lanka who became … entrepreneurs as a result of war. Five main areas of interest were examined, namely, (i) characteristics of these women; (ii …) factors that spurred them into entrepreneurship; (iii) their challenges; (iv) their measures of success; and (v) their …

Small firms in general have limited access to funding, which is a major problem for entrepreneurs. In particular, this … variables influencing the access to external capital at the start-up stage. Entrepreneurs' age, experience of starting … which entrepreneurs finance their business. Moreover, firm characteristics in terms of personal start-up capital, firm size …

considered whether female entrepreneurs in India exhibit different economic behaviour to men. This involved in-depth qualitative … between male and female entrepreneurs (Taylor, 2008). The local economic impact of the businesses differed according to the … gender of the owner due to the different spending imperatives of male and female entrepreneurs and the women they employ. The …