Online coaching: An alternative source of social support for female entrepreneurs during venture creation

Fielden, Sandra L.; Hunt, Carianne M.

doi:10.1177/0266242610369881

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“…; Cromie and Birley ; Katz and Williams ; Watson ) are overshadowed by a focus on differences in the composition and the quality of networking. There seems to be an apparent agreement in the literature that female entrepreneurs prefer to network with each other (Fielden and Hunt ; Verheul et al . ).…”

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confidence: 81%

“…see Aldrich et al 1989;Cromie and Birley 1992;Katz and Williams 1997;Watson 2011) are overshadowed by a focus on differences in the composition and the quality of networking. There seems to be an apparent agreement in the literature that female entrepreneurs prefer to network with each other (Fielden and Hunt 2011;Verheul et al 2002). Although this is also the case for men (as highlighted by Aldrich et al 1989), women's networks are thought to be less influential than 'old boys' networks'.…”

Section: Business Networking/social Capitalmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Female Entrepreneurship and the Metanarrative of Economic Growth: A Critical Review of Underlying Assumptions

Dean

Larsen

Ford

et al. 2017

Int J Management Reviews

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This critical review of the literature on female entrepreneurship problematizes the metanarrative of economic growth and the mechanisms through which it both operates and is maintained. Central to this is the axiomatic ‘underperformance hypothesis’, which states that ‘all else being equal, female entrepreneurs tend to be less successful than their male counterparts in terms of conventional economic performance measures’ (Du Rietz and Henrekson (2000, p. 1). As an axiom, the truth of the ‘underperformance hypothesis’ is taken for granted, and thus it invisibly serves as a starting point, delimiter and interpretive lens for analysis in this field. While it remains invisible, the hypothesis will continue to reproduce the differences between male and female entrepreneurs, and thus the subordination of women to men in the realm of entrepreneurship. The review illustrates how, by associating females with underperformance, the persistent influence of the metanarrative of economic growth has been masked and the image of the female entrepreneur as problematic and inferior to her male counterpart has been reinforced. The authors argue that a postmodern feminist epistemology will destabilize both the metanarrative of economic growth, and the axiomatic ‘underperformance hypothesis’ it supports, thus opening up space for a heterogeneous understanding of (female) entrepreneurship. By questioning accepted knowledge about female entrepreneurs, the review sets the platform for the exploration of new research questions and a broad agenda for future research. Such an agenda is crucial in order to move future research beyond the pervasive influence of the metanarrative of economic growth and its attendant underperformance hypothesis.

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confidence: 81%

Section: Business Networking/social Capitalmentioning

confidence: 96%

Female Entrepreneurship and the Metanarrative of Economic Growth: A Critical Review of Underlying Assumptions

Dean

Larsen

Ford

et al. 2017

Int J Management Reviews

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“…Second, to provide greater level of support for entrepreneurs, coaching programs can be introduced to render the required assistance for problem solving. For example, an online coaching program between established and young entrepreneurs in the north of England was found to furnish the required quality and quantity of support in all functional aspects [80].…”

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Mutual Support, Role Breadth Self-Efficacy, and Sustainable Job Performance of Workers in Young Firms

Cheah

2019

Sustainability

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Coworking space has flourished in the past decade. Unlike traditional shared services organizations, coworking spaces put a much greater emphasis on ‘sharing’. Members not only can share the physical office space, but also the virtual social spaces created by the coworking space operators managing the office. As coworking spaces provide a community to foster the culture of sharing, which gives rise to social interactions and thus knowledge and idea exchange, entrepreneurs favor such coworking spaces to achieve a higher level of job performance among their workers. Although it is generally accepted that a worker’s job performance varies over time within a job, there have been limited studies on within-person performance sustainability and its comparison with between-person sustainability. We sampled 101 workers of young firms operating in six coworking spaces in Singapore who completed daily surveys twice a day across ten consecutive workdays. By treating participants as the first level and daily observations as the second level, our study develops a dual-path model to explain how daily mutual support influences daily job performance. Our results indicated that daily mutual support is positively related to sustainable job performance after controlling for sleep quality, job requirements and workload stress. Within-person sustainability in mutual support was found to account for part of within-person variance in job performance. We established that mutual support not only predicts job performance, but also varies across workdays. As the collaboration of team members depends on cooperation rather than competition, mutual support is considered essential for team work and thus employees’ job performance. Our study also demonstrated the importance of role breadth self-efficacy as a moderator in the link between mutual support and sustainable job performance. Role breadth self-efficacy refers to the extent to which people feel confident that they are able to carry out a broader and more proactive role, beyond traditional prescribed technical requirements. The results revealed an enhancing moderation effect, where increasing the role breath self-efficacy would enhance the effect of the mutual support predictor on sustainable job performance of workers in young firms operating in the coworking space.

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“…) as well as the “ability to act as an entrepreneur” (Kent, Dennis, and Tanton ). Mentoring has frequently been acknowledged as a primary mode of knowledge transmission and acquisition (Fielden and Hunt ; Johnson ; Merriam and Mohamad ), with mentors supporting transformative experiential learning (Lee : 334).…”

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confidence: 99%

“How to Do Things with Words”: The Discursive Dimension of Experiential Learning in Entrepreneurial Mentoring Dyads

Lefebvre¹,

Redien‐Collot²

2013

Journal of Small Business Management

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Online coaching: An alternative source of social support for female entrepreneurs during venture creation

Cited by 55 publications

References 41 publications

Female Entrepreneurship and the Metanarrative of Economic Growth: A Critical Review of Underlying Assumptions

Female Entrepreneurship and the Metanarrative of Economic Growth: A Critical Review of Underlying Assumptions

Mutual Support, Role Breadth Self-Efficacy, and Sustainable Job Performance of Workers in Young Firms

“How to Do Things with Words”: The Discursive Dimension of Experiential Learning in Entrepreneurial Mentoring Dyads

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