Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conceptually and empirically explore issues that explain why women … is on the situations women entrepreneurs face, and the strategies they adopt, to successfully fund their high …‐growth businesses with venture funding. Rather than looking for answers at the individual level (men v women), the authors focus on the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer an account of women business owners in the Middle East and North Africa …. Design/methodology/approach – This five‐country research study included face‐to‐face interviews with women entrepreneurs in … Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. Findings – The findings revealed that the women surveyed were …

Women Presidents' Organization (WPO), to elicit her expert views on the support available to women entrepreneurs and the … women‐led enterprises. She identifies the common trait of entrepreneurial women as the drive to succeed, often breaking the … rules and coming up with better ways of doing things. Support for women entrepreneurs comes from role models and from …

Purpose – Studies have concluded that men tend to have higher self‐confidence than women and that this affects their … 50 entrepreneurs (25 women and 25 men) in New Zealand were interviewed in a semi‐structured format. Findings – Women … prior research. Once in an established business, women relate to entrepreneurship less than men and do not feel comfortable …

business” programme that was delivered in Ireland to 12 women from the traveller community. Findings – Four distinct categories …, plus it highlights the future steps that need to be taken to bring appropriate entrepreneurship support to traveller women … who experience triple discrimination – discrimination as women, as travellers and as traveller women. Originality …

how successful women are portrayed. The paper adds incremental credence to power of male‐dominated journalistic practices … tell and decode entrepreneur stories. As researchers, we need to recognise that there are other avenues for women to become … entrepreneurs than to become businesswomen and that it is alright for women to reject the “entrepreneur” label. Originality …

‐context, which is characterized by the long history of women's economic activity and bank‐based capital markets. Design … multivariate tests. Findings – The funding patterns of women‐owned SMEs (WOS) and men‐owned SMEs (MOS) in the data are different …

upon their levels of social capital. Findings – Women who operate firms in traditionally female sectors are found to have … the highest levels of social capital. In stark contrast, those individuals – men and women – working in traditionally male … conducted on women in atypical enterprises, or on the nature of their activities. This paper is a preliminary step towards …

evident in the fact that men and women seek it in large numbers, although few studies consider it within the resources … provided by the entrepreneurial networks, since it is normally attributed to women and the private sphere. Research limitations …/implications – It seems that women business owners, through their embeddedness in networks, can build a bridge between their agency and …

development programme for female entrepreneurs. The programme targets those women who already have a business and wish to grow it …