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 …

A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … entrepreneurs have markedly different psyche than others (8 out of 14 traits differ). However gender differences in traits do not …

entrepreneurship can or cannot be gendered, using a sample of potential entrepreneurs. Based on the multivariate analysis of variance …Research dedicated to entrepreneurship has, from the very beginning, created a gender gap as it was mostly considered … to be the masculine one. Studies with the main focus on psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs are mostly based …

embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …

Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …