2019
DOI: 10.1108/jsbed-01-2018-0010
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Gender difference and informal competition: evidence from India

Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this paper is to document how male and female managers respond to competition posed by informal firms. Design/methodology/approach The methodology uses the ordered logistic regression and the data provided by the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey to test the arguments for firms headquartered in India. Findings The findings show that firms managed by females are more likely to consider informal competition as a bigger obstacle for their operations than firms managed by males. It also sho… Show more

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“…This conclusion contributes to support a different perspective to that of Liñán and Fayolle (2015). This is important as several new articles on these topics have been published since the presentation of their article, for instance, Ruiz-Alba et al (2015), Mehtap et al (2017) and Farooq et al (2019) on gender and EIs, Lortie and Castogiovanni (2015) and Zhang and Cain (2017) on the TPB applied to EIs or Rauch and Hulsink (2015), Fietze and Boyd (2017) and Pepin and Etienne (2019) on entrepreneurial education and EIs, and recently, Ruiz-Alba et al (2019) investigated the influence of gamification on EIs, to name but a few.…”
Section: Conclusion and Contributionsmentioning
confidence: 65%
“…This conclusion contributes to support a different perspective to that of Liñán and Fayolle (2015). This is important as several new articles on these topics have been published since the presentation of their article, for instance, Ruiz-Alba et al (2015), Mehtap et al (2017) and Farooq et al (2019) on gender and EIs, Lortie and Castogiovanni (2015) and Zhang and Cain (2017) on the TPB applied to EIs or Rauch and Hulsink (2015), Fietze and Boyd (2017) and Pepin and Etienne (2019) on entrepreneurial education and EIs, and recently, Ruiz-Alba et al (2019) investigated the influence of gamification on EIs, to name but a few.…”
Section: Conclusion and Contributionsmentioning
confidence: 65%
“…Last, with regard to entrepreneurship in under-represented and minority populations, the journal remains committed to proactively supporting the publication of scholarship in this critical area of need (e.g. Bongomin et al , 2020; Farooq et al , 2019; Gomez et al , 2020; Sultan and Sultan, 2020; Sabbaghi, 2019; Solesvik et al , 2019).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the other hand, some studies studied individual entrepreneurs. While studies such as Strohmeyer et al (2017) and Link and van Hasselt (2019) show a negative relationship between gender of the entrepreneur and innovation, studies such as Farooq et al (2019) andT.M. et al (2019) show that the gender of the entrepreneur has a positive influence on innovation.…”
Section: Gender and Firm Innovationmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…That is, all of the above studies try to establish discrimination of the women entrepreneurs to explain the difference in performance. However, two of the studies on Indian entrepreneurs show a positive influence on innovation performance (Farooq et al , 2019; T.M. et al , 2019) whereas one shows a negative influence due to institutional factors (Reutzel et al , 2018).…”
Section: Group C - Quantitative Empirical Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%