Factors inhibiting the economic growth of female owned small businesses in North West England

Fielden, Sandra L.; Davidson, Marilyn J.; Dawe, A J.; Makin, Peter

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“…The high level of self-efficacy reported in the sample suggested that the respondents all had more than enough self-efficacy to be entrepreneurs, and they considered themselves to have the abilities to cope with the tasks that entrepreneurship might bring. We found these results to be somewhat surprising because the variable self-efficacy, in particular, has proven important in identifying nascent women entrepreneurs (Fielden et al, 2003;Kirkwood, 2009;Langowitz and Minniti, 2007;Wilson et al, 2007). Reflecting on this, we now hold that self-efficacy may be linked to entrepreneurial intent, but perhaps not necessarily to the start-up decision per se.…”

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“…Although Langowitz and Minniti (2007) suggested that self-efficacy is an important covariate for entrepreneurship, many different views have been expressed about the links among self-efficacy, start-ups and gender. Some prior studies have indicated that women tend to have lower self-confidence with respect to entrepreneurship, and this, in turn, affects their business performance and advancement (Dickerson and Taylor, 2000;Fielden et al, 2003;Kirkwood, 2009;Langowitz and Minniti, 2007;Wilson et al, 2007). Others (e.g.…”

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“…Perception of risk may be gender-related, but this area suffers from an under-developed conceptual basis, which may be problematic when attempting to understand how women make start-up decisions. In particular, women's views on risk -and the factors that influence their views -are crucial in understanding the development of women-owned and -operated businesses (Brindley, 2005;Fielden et al, 2003;Kirkwood, 2009). Furthermore, it seems that the characteristics associated with men's entrepreneurship are not consistent with women's (Delmar and Davidsson, 2000).…”

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Risk perception matters: why women’s passion may not lead to a business start-up

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Friedrichs

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2015

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.*Related content and download information correct at time of download. Purpose -This paper aims to explore whether nascent women entrepreneurs perceive more risks than men, and to determine how higher risk perceptions might limit start-up decisions by mediating the potential influence of passion and self-efficacy. Design/methodology/approach -This study surveyed 103 participants in Sweden -both women and men -who, in the period 2008 through 2011, intended to start a business. ANOVA tests and binominal logistic regression models were conducted to test hypothesized framework. Findings -The authors found that nascent women entrepreneurs perceive more risk than nascent male entrepreneurs, that risk perceptions influence start-up decisions and that risk preferences partial out the otherwise identified influence of passion on start-up decisions.Research limitations/implications -The authors reveal a consequence of gender socialization and how it impacts the start-up decisions of nascent women entrepreneurs. Support systems should consider developing activities that change the public's perception of who is an entrepreneur and seek ways to balance risk perceptions between men and women. Originality/value -The authors argue here that risk perceptions play a prominent role in start-up decisions. Specifically, they consider that nascent women entrepreneurs perceive more risks than men, and that their view of risk partials out any potential influence of their perceived passion and self-efficacy on their start-up decision.

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“…As women initiated ventures are reasonably very younger than their male counter-part and they do not have such successful history on business management experience (Lincoln, 2011). In addition, majority women entrepreneurs from unemployment or poorly paid employment, and as such they have low or no savings or no collateral for business financing (Fuller-Love, 2008;Fielden et al, 2003;Carter & Rosa, 1998). Alike, women entrepreneurs' in Bangladesh has no access or very limited access to get financial facilities from different Financial Institutes (FI) in the initial stage of the business.…”

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Working Environment for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries: An Empirical Study of Bangladesh

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Dewri²,

Ananna³

2016

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Women entrepreneurship is a very thorny task in Bangladesh like other developing nations. Generally, women entrepreneurs are facing number of hindrances during start-up to operating their enterprises though they have enormous contribution to the national economic growth and employment generation. The aim of this research study is to scrutinize the working environment for women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. To conduct the study 752 sample has been considered and examined to get research outcome. The research results reveal that Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs generally have very limited financial capabilities to initiate their business as well as inadequate of collateral facilities leads to discourage the financial institutions to offer credit facilities to them. Also women entrepreneurs face other social constrains to operate and manage their business those can be connected with gender discrimination, undermining as economic means, legal constrains and imperfect view by financial institutions that women are unable to manage their business.

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“…For example, are female entrepreneurs denied finance or are they discouraged from applying for finance to a higher extent than male entrepreneurs van Hulten, 2012)? Although merely implied rather than explicitly studied or stated, scholars have suggested that different perceptions of entrepreneurs' potential exist in financial decision making (Becker-Blease & Sohl;Fielden, Davidson, Dawe, & Makin, 2003;Kwong, Jones-Evans, & Thompson, 2012;Wu & Chua, 2012). Such gender constructions may impact allocations of financing (Ahl, 2006;Alsos & Ljunggren, 2016;Marlow & Patton, 2005).…”

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Gender Stereotypes and Venture Support Decisions: How Governmental Venture Capitalists Socially Construct Entrepreneurs’ Potential

Malmström

Johansson

Wincent

2017

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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In the present study, we conduct a discourse analysis on a set of longitudinal observations of government venture capitalists' decisions to identify how gender stereotypes are socially constructed and activated when assessing entrepreneurs' potential in the financial distribution of venture support. The present study finds that female entrepreneurs risk receiving significantly less venture capital, which is caused by the language and rhetoric used that relates to gender differences when funding decisions are made. We consider and discuss the implications of our results for related research about distributing venture capital and the social constructions of female and male entrepreneurs.

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Factors inhibiting the economic growth of female owned small businesses in North West England

Cited by 122 publications

References 11 publications

Risk perception matters: why women’s passion may not lead to a business start-up

Risk perception matters: why women’s passion may not lead to a business start-up

Working Environment for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries: An Empirical Study of Bangladesh

Gender Stereotypes and Venture Support Decisions: How Governmental Venture Capitalists Socially Construct Entrepreneurs’ Potential

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