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Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … various interventions suggest the need for more precise targeting. The multiple constraints faced by women entrepreneurs … highlights several interventions that show promise in supporting women entrepreneurs, significant gaps remain in the evidence …
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This policy brief on women in entrepreneurship was produced by the OECD and the European Commission. It explores the … Missing Entrepreneurs’. All these documents are available in English, French and German. They are available at http://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/inclusive-entrepreneurship.htm. … gender gap in entrepreneurship, the differences between male- and female-owned businesses, and the unique challenges that …
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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 … business sizes. We also highlight the agency of women entrepreneurs in influencing their spatial-institutional contexts. …
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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 … differences in personality. We show that women have markedly different psyche than men (11 out of 14 traits differ), and that …
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. We focus on the rise of female entrepreneurship in Serbia and collect an extensive biographical dataset of women, who … female empowerment is female entrepreneurship; however, the literature on the emergence of female entrepreneurship is scarce … took part in privatization. Although women enjoyed the same de jure rights as men, they faced a number of informal …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the correlation between female entrepreneurship and happiness within the … female entrepreneurship and five control variables measuring the determinants of happiness. The method used for analysis is …, making it suitable for studying the heterogeneous effects of female entrepreneurship on happiness across happiness quantiles …
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We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … and male entrepreneurs. Only male entrepreneurs seem subject to pressure to redistribute from the distant network. Our … findings are consistent with situations where women working at home would essentially feel negatively the burden of their own …
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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 …
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, context, and innovation performance among women entrepreneurs in Ecuador. Based on a sample of 45 women entrepreneurs, the … a key role in fostering innovation in women-led firms in Ecuador. This innovation is facilitated by establishing close … and frequent interpersonal connections, as well as by the age of the female entrepreneurs. Conversely, certain individual …
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entrepreneurs. Research Design & Methods: A qualitative research study was conducted among female entrepreneurs from different … profound effects on the respondents. The narrative surrounding female entrepreneurs is often presented in regards to the … challenges they face. However, it is necessary to comprehend the element regarding how women continue to be resilient in the face …
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