? (2) What are their criteria for hiring new staff? and (3) how do women entrepreneurs train their staff …Objective - Women play a significant role in Malaysian economic development. FELCRA is a corporate organization wholly … owned by the Malaysian government agency entrusted with the initiative to increase the participation of women in the socio …

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 …

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. …

Women entrepreneurs are known not only to reimburse loans swifter than men, but also to receive smaller loans. However …, on average women have smaller-scope business projects and are poorer than men. A deeper investigation is thus required in …

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 …

social support that influence women entrepreneurs' managerial skills. Research Design & Methods: A conceptual model was … developed based on the literature review, and the data collected from 120 women entrepreneurs in Poland was utilised to … SPSS software. The final developed scale was validated among 140 women entrepreneurs in Malaysia and the data was analysed …

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 …

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …

, self-employment and entrepreneurship plays an important role, and in particular new venture creation by women. This chapter … aims to provide a snapshot on female entrepreneurship in Germany, with a focus on female immigrant entrepreneurship. We … analyze female immigrant entrepreneurship against its historical background as well as in the light of the recent ‘European …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … that it is primarily single women that drive the well-established empirical relationship between personal wealth and … business start-ups. Therefore, public policies specifically targeted at relieving the liquidity constraints of women could help …