Advancing theory development in venture creation: signposts for understanding gender

Brush, Candida G.; Bruin, Anne de; Welter, Friederike

doi:10.4337/9781782544616.00008

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“…Some studies, for example, those of Manolova, Brush, and Edelman () and Brush, De Bruin, and Welter (), showed that female entrepreneurs were more often motivated by noneconomic goals such as a desire for challenge, independence, self‐confidence, and ownership of businesses, whereas male entrepreneurs were more focused on monetary returns. Birley () and Eusuf et al () suggest the need for money is often the main motivation for women to become entrepreneurs.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Financing female entrepreneurs in cottage, micro, small, and medium enterprises: Evidence from the financial sector in Bangladesh 2010–2018

Shoma

2019

Asia & Pacific Policy Stud

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This article examines the challenges and obstacles faced by female entrepreneurs in the cottage, micro, small, and medium enterprise (CMSME) sector in Bangladesh and shows that a combination of legislatory and regulatory reform can mitigate many of the issues that prevent women gaining from, and contributing to, this vital economic sector. Access to finance is found to be the greatest challenge faced by women in starting and operating CMSMEs in Bangladesh. This article explores the significant gender gap in access to formal credit, a gap that impacts negatively on the sector's growth and development. The article uses liberal feminist theory as a framework for analysis of the reforms. Analysis of data collected from banks and financial institutions on CMSME loans (2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018) shows that female entrepreneurs are treated significantly differently from men by financial institutions in Bangladesh. K E Y W O R D Sbank and financial institutions, cottage, micro, small, and medium enterprise, female entrepreneurs, gender gap, liberal feminism

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Financing female entrepreneurs in cottage, micro, small, and medium enterprises: Evidence from the financial sector in Bangladesh 2010–2018

Shoma

2019

Asia & Pacific Policy Stud

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“…The remaining question is to determine the extent to which men and women might manage SMEs differently, particularly when producing financial information. Paradoxically, although the CEO is the primary decision‐maker concerning corporate strategic issues, the entrepreneurship literature highlights the lack of theoretical development regarding CEO gender (see, for instance, Brush, De Bruin, and Welter ; Henry et al ). The latter authors contend that studies in entrepreneurship mainly adopt an empirical gender‐as‐variable approach to compare male and female entrepreneurs and identify gender‐based differences.…”

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Earnings Quality in Private SMEs: Do CEO Demographics Matter?

Belot

Serve

2017

Journal of Small Business Management

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This study investigates the impact of CEO demographics on earnings quality for private SMEs. Using a 2012 sample of 30,476 French firms, we first find strong empirical support for a gender effect: female‐run firms engage in less earnings management than do male‐run firms. This result is consistent with female CEOs being more risk averse than their male counterparts are when making financial decisions. Second, CEO age is negatively correlated with the magnitude of discretionary accruals, and the relationship between gender and earnings quality is stronger for older CEOs. Overall, our findings suggest that CEO demographics affect the quality of accounting information.

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“…Although female entrepreneurship is growing increasing rapidly and plays an important role (Wilson et al 2007), female entrepreneurs still represent only half of the male entrepreneurs (Shinnar et al 2012) and this reality is consistent across different nations (Gupta et al 2009). Besides many studies evidenced that men, compared to women, acknowledge entrepreneurship more attractive than other professions (e.g., Díaz-García and Jiménez-Moreno 2010; Ahl 2006) and women are driven to entrepreneurship with the desire to better adjust work and family life (Brush et al 2014;Marques et al 2011b). Thus, it is imperative to identify factors responsible for this reality (López-Delgado et al 2019).…”

Section: Entrepreneurial Intention and Gendermentioning

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Physical activity level as a booster of entrepreneurial intention: a social innovation approach

Rodrigues

Marques

Esteves

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Int Rev Public Nonprofit Mark

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This study aims to investigate if engaging in physical activity (PA) and gender influences people's entrepreneurial intention (EI). A survey for measuring EI and PA was developed and administered to the general population. The data were collected with a questionnaire distributed across all continental Portuguese regions. A two-way analysis of variance was used to test the influence of PA level and gender in EI. The results highlight that PA and gender have an impact on EI. This study's main practical implication is that evidence was found that people need to be involved in more PA, especially in high PA level, because the results show that there is an association with increased levels of EI. This paper contributes to filling a gap in the literature by identifying the importance of PA for the increase of EI. This relationship may be a consequence of skills promoted by the practice of PA and also the development of some personal psychological and cognitive characteristics such as autonomy, risk tolerance, and leadership. The main implication resulting from this study is that it is essential to develop and booster PA into society, namely through PA programmes in organisations, not only for improving persons' health condition but also as a social benefit, that can promote social innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Advancing theory development in venture creation: signposts for understanding gender

Cited by 34 publications

References 76 publications

Financing female entrepreneurs in cottage, micro, small, and medium enterprises: Evidence from the financial sector in Bangladesh 2010–2018

Financing female entrepreneurs in cottage, micro, small, and medium enterprises: Evidence from the financial sector in Bangladesh 2010–2018

Earnings Quality in Private SMEs: Do CEO Demographics Matter?

Physical activity level as a booster of entrepreneurial intention: a social innovation approach

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