Post-disaster research is often plagued by displacement of subjects, loss of infrastructure, and the disruption of communication. Economic losses and business disruptions caused by a disaster tend to affect small businesses on a greater scale. With the majority of small businesses being operated...

This thesis focuses on women entrepreneurs' underperformance in terms of business performance, specifically addressing the question of whether the presence of children and a spouse impact self-employed men and women's wages differently. This study investigates the female underperformance...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of family businesses' strategic management practices and gender on goal orientation and financial success. In previous small business literature, women business owners and managers are often shown to underperform compared to their male...

This research focuses on the relationship between marriage and women’s self-employment earnings in the US. The basic proposition is that marriage poses an additional constraint on women entrepreneurs. By acknowledging the overlap of gender, family, and business we are able to observe the...

This study focused on the lifecycle income objective of business-owning (farm and nonfarm) households. We hypothesized that the complex relationship between household and business management decisions had the potential to challenge predictions from standard household savings theory....