Exploring the gendered entrepreneurial identity gap: implications for entrepreneurship education

Elliott, Catherine; Mantler, Janet; Huggins, Joie

doi:10.1108/ijge-04-2020-0048

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“…The role of interdisciplinary courses also provides a more sensible and gradual transition to an entrepreneurial career, alongside a more solid content that focuses on the different stages required for this practice (Morris, 2017). According to Burke’s identity theory (Burke, 2006; Burke & Stets, 2009), social expectations and the standards of behavior in a social context may affect an individual’s identity construction (Elliott et al, 2021). China’s “Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation” strategy and other policies of promoting entrepreneurship education positively affect students’ entrepreneurial identity formation.…”

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Students’ Entrepreneurial Identity Construction: Role and Social Identity Influences

Mei

Symaco

2022

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Identity directly impacts how university students behave and make decisions in entrepreneurial practice. Therefore, it is significant to explore the factors influencing the identity construction of student-entrepreneurs to understand how processes are internalized by students, which may then affect their entrepreneurial identity. This article interrogates the formation and transition of the entrepreneurial identity of student-entrepreneurs in a Chinese research university. This paper argues that identity formation is a dynamic and nonlinear process where both role and social identities are involved in its development. Factors that would promote the desired identity formation would include, among others, a tolerant atmosphere across universities, integrating identity issues into the process of entrepreneurship education, and providing university-wide support for entrepreneurship which will be beneficial to improving and sustaining entrepreneurial identity among students.

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Students’ Entrepreneurial Identity Construction: Role and Social Identity Influences

Mei

Symaco

2022

SAGE Open

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“…Women are often required to play the traditional role of housewives (Wannamakok and Chang, 2020), and more likely to be motivated by flexibility in work and family to engage in entrepreneurship than men (Holmquist and Sundin, 1990). The influence of external environment on the differences between female and male entrepreneurship has also been strongly emphasised over the past few decades, such as technological development, economic factors, demographic factors, institution, culture and education (Verheul et al , 2006; Elliott et al , 2021).…”

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How do institutional environment and entrepreneurial cognition drive female and male entrepreneurship from a configuration perspective?

Chen

Huang

2023

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the gender differences in entrepreneurship driven by configurations of institutional environment and entrepreneurial cognition, and provide theoretical guidance and practical reference for promoting female and male entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach Based on a configuration perspective, six antecedents of institutional environment and entrepreneurial cognition are integrated to explore multiple concurrent factors and causally complex relationships affecting female and male entrepreneurship. Findings This study indicates that the configurations of institutional environment and entrepreneurial cognition can achieve high female and male entrepreneurship. There are similarities and differences between female and male entrepreneurship from a configuration perspective. Perceived opportunity plays an important role in entrepreneurship for both women and men, and the absence of fear of failure is also important for male entrepreneurship. There is a complementary effect among entrepreneurial cognitions in the absence of institutional environment. In the configurations of institutional environment and entrepreneurial cognition, female entrepreneurship benefits more from informal institutions, whereas regulative and cognitive institutions play a greater role in male entrepreneurship. Practical implications Policymakers and individuals should take a holistic and complex view of the impact of institutional environment and entrepreneurial cognition, and differentiated measures should be taken for female and male entrepreneurship. Originality/value This research responds to the call for multilevel transnational entrepreneurship research, enriches research on institutional environment and entrepreneurial cognition, deepens the application of fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to the field of entrepreneurship and strengthens the understanding of the similarities, differences and complexities of female and male entrepreneurship.

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“…Meanwhile, under the influence of the social environment, to reduce the employment pressure of college students, college students can achieve short-term employment or entrepreneurship through a series of government assistance policies, so that the employment rate of graduates can be guaranteed. However, due to reasons such as the short time and excessive government support, college students are successful in entrepreneurship and employment in the early stage, but after reducing support in the later stage, innovation and entrepreneurship are weak and difficult to develop for a long time (Elliott et al, 2021 ; Peter et al, 2021 ). This kind of utilitarian educational method that ignores the cultivation of college students' own “spiritual” is not suitable for the general environment of social development.…”

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Cultivation Model of Entrepreneurship From the Perspective of Artificial Intelligence Ethics

2022

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Students are the backbone of national development and progress, and should stand at the forefront of the era of innovation and entrepreneurship. Cultivating the entrepreneurship of college students is not only a response to the national call, but also a basic requirement for implementing quality education and promoting the comprehensive development of college students. To better study the entrepreneurship of college students, cultivate a group of newcomers of the era who have patriotic feelings, dare to innovate, hardworking and sustainable struggle, and solve the problem of college students' employment difficulties from the root, the cultivation mode of college students' entrepreneurship is studied. Firstly, the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technology on social ethics is analyzed. Secondly, it analyzes the current situation of the cultivation of science and engineering college students' entrepreneurship from three aspects: Chinese traditional cultural thoughts influence the concept of career choice, enterprises emphasize utilitarianism, and colleges and universities attach importance to knowledge education and despise spiritual education. Finally, the data statistics on the cultivation of entrepreneurship of science and engineering college students are carried out in the form of questionnaires. The results demonstrate that among the students surveyed, 21.31% have a strong willingness to start their own business, and 72.84% have the idea of starting their own business, which means that most students still want to start a business through their own efforts, not blindly looking for jobs. Simultaneously, among many majors, 87.5% of students majoring in agriculture and medicine are better at finding new ways to solve problems, while the proportion of students majoring in literature and history is the lowest. It also indicates that most students believe that schools should add more seminar courses, internship courses, design courses, experimental courses, etc., and allow students to choose learning courses across colleges and majors, to cultivate college students' entrepreneurship. The proposed method provides some ideas for the application of AI technology in the cultivation of students' entrepreneurship.

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Exploring the gendered entrepreneurial identity gap: implications for entrepreneurship education

Cited by 18 publications

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Students’ Entrepreneurial Identity Construction: Role and Social Identity Influences

Students’ Entrepreneurial Identity Construction: Role and Social Identity Influences

How do institutional environment and entrepreneurial cognition drive female and male entrepreneurship from a configuration perspective?

Cultivation Model of Entrepreneurship From the Perspective of Artificial Intelligence Ethics

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