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In this present paper, we investigate gender-related differences in the survival of ventures financed through equity crowdfunding. Based on a study of 220 enterprises that pursued equity crowdfunding in Germany between January 2011 and November 2017, we find that the presence of females in the...
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This study explores success rates in angel financing based on the gender composition of entrepreneurial teams using unique, hand-collected data from the television program Shark Tank. We find that the likelihood of a team receiving an offer from an angel investor is independent of the...
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This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favourable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk differs significantly between genders, but has not addressed the question of whether this contributes...
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Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …
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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …
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context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
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Studying women's entrepreneurial intentions is critical not only for encouraging women's entrepreneurship but also for …
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entrepreneurship varies in different parts of the world depending on the economic development of the region. However, the engagement of … entrepreneurship. …
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