Developing Quality in Networks: The Experience of Male and Female Entrepreneurs in New Technology-Based Ventures

McGowan, Pauric; Cooper, Sarah; Hampton, Alison

doi:10.1108/s1876-0228(2013)0000010007

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“…At the macro-level , in the social feminist perspective, research shows that women technology entrepreneurs initially engage more in female-only networks to decrease isolation and increase confidence (McGowan et al ., 2013; Woodwark et al ., 2021). However, as they develop professionally, they take a more formal approach to networking to access useful information and enhance their legitimacy (McGowan et al ., 2013; Woodwark et al ., 2021). Furthermore, gender diversification in networking is achieved by women technology entrepreneurs with extensive prior industry experience (Tan, 2008) and by co-preneurial women able to penetrate male-dominated networks via their husbands and becoming the “honorary man” when participating in male-dominated networks (Martin and Wright, 2005).…”

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Feminist perspectives on gender and technology entrepreneurship in incubator settings

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Neergaard

2023

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PurposeThe objective of this article is to map and assess current evidence in women's technology entrepreneurship in business incubators with the aim of producing a conceptual framework that will allow us to understand how gender shapes the life of women technology entrepreneurs.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a systematic literature review. The data set comprises 49 publications, including peer-reviewed articles and prominent book chapters. These are first categorized according to their feminist approach and second analysed using an inductive thematic approach to map dominant concepts and research methods.FindingsThe authors develop a framework with four dimensions: (1) antecedents, (2) challenges, (3) outcomes and (4) solutions. The authors show that current literature mainly focuses on the challenges faced by women technology entrepreneurs in incubator settings. Although liberal feminist research is present, social feminist perspectives dominate, with poststructuralist research as a close second. Interestingly, current research has not focused much on individual characteristics; in other words, the baggage that women bring with them in terms of prior experiences is hardly investigated, even though there is general agreement that socialization shapes women's experiences of and responses to gender challenges.Originality/valueThe authors contribute to the literature in the following ways: The developed framework assists in understanding how gender is an overarching factor that shapes every facet of the life of a women technology entrepreneur, and how incubator environments intensify gender issues. Indeed, being in an incubator environment adds an extra layer of gendered conditions, thus intensifying the challenges that women meet, creating a “triple masculinity trap”. The review highlights that little is known about how early conditioning shapes women technology entrepreneurs' reactions to the gendered conditions they meet and that there is a lack of research on how women “do entrepreneurship”.

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Feminist perspectives on gender and technology entrepreneurship in incubator settings

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2023

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“…It highlights the importance of understanding network quality for female entrepreneurs in SET-based ventures, offering insights crucial for government interven�ons aimed at enhancing networking effec�veness and suppor�ng women in high-tech entrepreneurship, an area rela�vely unexplored in exis�ng research on female entrepreneurship. Moreover, McGowan et al (2013) highlights the significance of networking in high-tech entrepreneurship, especially for women who are underrepresented in technology-based sectors. It notes the lack of compara�ve research on how male and female entrepreneurs develop and u�lize networks, emphasizing the importance of understanding these dynamics for enhancing female engagement in high-tech entrepreneurship.…”

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Empowering Women for Technology Entrepreneurship: Opportunities and Challenges

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This paper aims to underline how the new emerging digital technologies could empower women entrepreneurship by supporting them in overcoming the constraints they face as well as in creating a more favorable network environment. We will do this by analyzing the state of the art of the research regarding entrepreneurship practices by women considering the literature that has focused on this theme up to now. Methodology - A structured literature review methodology is going to be applied to this paper. Through the use of specific keywords, we analyzed Scopus documents published up to now on the theme related to Women and technology entrepreneurship. Several steps have been followed to perform a systematic, transparent, and replicable study. We used the VOSviewer tool for bibliographic and cluster analysis. A final content analysis was performed to identify research areas. Findings - Specifically the contribution and the impact provided by the Digital Technologies is analyzed for women's entrepreneurship. A conceptual discussion on how the Digital Technologies opportunities in overcoming some of the constrains women tackle in their entrepreneurship process and which are the main research streams that emerge for future investigation on the theme, is provided. Practical implications – The major implication is to advance knowledge and practice in the area of gender in management and use of Digital Technologies by focusing upon empirical research, theoretical developments, practice and current issues. Benefits are related to a better understanding of the debate on “Gender and Management” themes by reconsidering networking activities with social media.

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“…Вопросы гендерных различий предпринимательства изучаются в педагогике с акцентом на возможности Женщины по-прежнему остаются собственниками гораздо меньшего количества компаний, чем мужчины. В исследовании P. McGowan, S. Cooper, A. Hampton на основе анализа природы и динамики предпринимательских связей мужчин и женщин показано, что способность развивать связи и управлять ими как важная компетенция, позволяющая собственникам бизнесов делиться опытом, идеями и знаниями для повышения эффективности компании, у женщин развита несколько слабее, чем у мужчин [29].…”

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“…По итогам проведенного анализа гендерных различий в развитии тех или иных компетенций студентов мы обнаружили, что у респондентов мужского пола значительно сильнее развита компетенция «планирование и управление», а также большие различия отмечаются по компетенции «мобилизация других», что характеризует респондентов-мужчин как более способных воодушевлять других, создавать связи и демонстрировать эффективные коммуникации с ориентацией на будущее. Полученный результат коррелирует с выводами, которые делают P. McGowan, , S. Cooper, A. Hampton: они отмечают, что женщины способны развивать эффективные связи и управлять ими, но используют это в меньшей степени, чем мужчины [29]. В то же время полученные результаты показывают, что женщины обладают для взаимодействия с другими людьми равными с мужчинами возможностями (компетенция «работа с другими» имеет равные средние значения -5,4 балла).…”

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Development of entrepreneurial competencies of Russian and Czech undergraduate students: Gender aspect

2022

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Introduction. Recently, university teachers have faced the task to develop not only professional knowledge, skills and abilities, but also universal and supra-professional competencies. The comprehensive development of university students influences the formation of a specialist’s personality, ensures his/her adaptability and resistance to the challenges of the external environment, the graduate’s readiness to demonstrate high performance indicators in the chosen field of activity. Among the supra-professional competencies, a separate cluster of entrepreneurial competencies can be distinguished, which ensure the deployment of commercial thinking and are the driver of the development of the state’s economy. Meanwhile, in some publications there are a number of facts, which illustrate the gender differences in entrepreneurship in the world. Official statistics demonstrate the relevance of the development of women’s entrepreneurship in the economies of countries. The prevailing number of studies is carried out among students enrolled in entrepreneurship training programmes. However, the indicators of the development of entrepreneurial competencies of students of non-core specialties (future human resource management specialists), taking into account the gender factor, have not been studied enough.The aim of the present research was to answer the question about the presence of a gender gap in the development of entrepreneurial competencies among university students enrolled in the training direction “Personnel Management” in the Russian Federation and the Czech Republic.Methodology and research methods. The methodological framework of the current research is based on the behavioural approach to the study of competencies, which suggests that success in professional activity is favoured by a high level of development. The literary analysis of relevant empirical studies was conducted to choose a research method and to develop a methodology for competencies assessment. The review makes it possible to assess the level of knowledge of the problem of gender differences in entrepreneurial competencies of university students at the international level. The empirical part of the work was attended by N = 582 students (n1 = 291 people of the Czech Republic (Ceske Budejovice), n2 = 291 people of the Russian Federation (Ekaterinburg), among them women – 70.1% n1, 74.2% n2 and men – 29.9% n1, 25.8% n2. Testing was carried out using the authors’ methodology “Assessment of Entrepreneurial Competencies of Students” for the 15 most important competencies in the field of entrepreneurship, which are associated with the manifestation of initiative, management of resources and people, decision-making and active action.The data obtained were processed using descriptive statistics, one-way analysis of variance, t-statistics.Results and scientific novelty. It is shown that the development of participants’ entrepreneurial competencies does not have a direct correlation with the gender of the respondents. When assessing the potential of women’s entrepreneurship, the opinion of society is influenced by the stereotyping of ideas about it as a traditionally masculine type of activity, while the development of these competencies in the university takes place without highlighting significant gender differences. Moreover, in a number of cases, women have higher indicators in the analysed range of competencies in comparison with men. We assume that gender does not have a decisive role in the implementation of business initiatives but there may be other factors: the environment, including the educational environment of the university, personal characteristics and motivation of a person.Practical significance. The research findings are expected to contribute to the debate on entrepreneurial competencies and provide useful data to be employed in learning with a focus on the development of internal entrepreneurship.

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Developing Quality in Networks: The Experience of Male and Female Entrepreneurs in New Technology-Based Ventures

Cited by 4 publications

References 44 publications

Feminist perspectives on gender and technology entrepreneurship in incubator settings

Feminist perspectives on gender and technology entrepreneurship in incubator settings

Empowering Women for Technology Entrepreneurship: Opportunities and Challenges

Development of entrepreneurial competencies of Russian and Czech undergraduate students: Gender aspect

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