Recent research about women entrepreneurs isreviewed, key research questions are identified, and databases are evaluatedthat may facilitate exploration of these issues. Much of the currentliterature focuses on individual women business owners, and the theories mostoften applied to women...

More than half of all attempts to start a business fail. In a quest to help explain the variance in this phenomenon, we develop and test hypotheses related to the role that the objective environment, entrepreneurial perceptions, and start-up activities play in the new venture creation process....