What's Gender Got to Do with It? The Experiences of U.S. Women Entrepreneurship Students

Cochran, Sara L.

doi:10.1111/jsbm.12508

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“…Recent research on education and training of women entrepreneurs shows that factors influencing self-efficacy for women entrepreneurs is different than for men, in particular, when women interact and work with female entrepreneurs their selfefficacy is much higher, but the same is not true for men (Rosendahl-Huber and Bechtold, 2019). Also, there is a need to include female role models in classroom cases, panels and events, as well as ensure that programs are not "gendered" and male dominated (Cochran, 2017). Policy will not only have to adjust to the external economic conditions but also become more sensitive to differences in motivators for nascent entrepreneurs.…”

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Entrepreneurial intentions and gender: pathways to start-up

Nikou

Brännback

Carsrud

et al. 2019

IJGE

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to revisit the conceptualization and measurement of entrepreneurial intentions. Significant studies anchored in the Theory of Planned Behavior use causal statistical approaches to entrepreneurial intentions. This methodological approach, leads to the conclusion that there is a single pathway for all groups of people to achieve business start-up. Even though theory suggests approaches by women entrepreneurs to start a business may be influenced by different factors from those influencing men, results are inconclusive in these analyses. The authors argue that methodological preferences for linear, causal analytical approaches limit the understanding of gender similarities and differences in the business start-up process. The authors propose that when considering diverse samples, it is unreasonable to assume there is only a single pathway leading to business start-up. Design/methodology/approach Building on fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) and data set of 2,038 respondents, the authors investigate factors predicting the intentions to start a business and evaluate the alternative conjunctive paths that emerge. Findings The fsQCA results shows that the relationship among conditions leading to entrepreneurial intentions is complex and is best represented as multiple and conjectural causation configurations. In other words, there are multiple significant pathways (refers to equifinality) that predict intentions to start a business start-up, and there are significant differences by gender. Originality/value This study is one of the first to examine the roll of gender as a sperate condition in the analysis. This paper offers implications for theory and future research and highlights the complexity of this domain.

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Entrepreneurial intentions and gender: pathways to start-up

Nikou

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Carsrud

et al. 2019

IJGE

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“…These observations illustrate the crucial importance of equipping female students with entrepreneurship education and skills while pursuing their studies in STEM disciplines. A study based on an investigation in an American university found that female students struggled to become entrepreneurs and described the entrepreneurship environment as a “male-centered territory” (Cochran, 2019). The gender gap is clearly more apparent in the Middle East and North Africa region, where entrepreneurial activities and enterprises continue to be mostly male-dominated (Bastian et al, 2018).…”

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Assessing the enterprising tendencies of Arab female undergraduate engineering students in the Sultanate of Oman

Yasin

Khansari

Sharif

2020

Industry and Higher Education

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This study assesses the enterprising characteristics of first-year undergraduate Omani female chemical engineering students in Muscat, Oman. Pre and post surveys were conducted with 27 respondents from an entrepreneurship boot camp module mandated by the Oman Ministry of Higher Education. The variables, measured on a 10-point Likert scale, included need for achievement, need for autonomy, creativity, risk-taking, and locus of control. Statistical analysis was performed on the integrated data to measure the impact of student learning using a t-test approach and comparing mean averages. This was followed by qualitative semi-structured interviews that were examined using thematic analysis. The comparison of students’ enterprise tendencies before and after the module indicates minor to moderate improvements in their entrepreneurial abilities and their understanding of entrepreneurial behavior. The most noticeable impact was on students’ risk-taking abilities, followed by their creativity, need for achievement, need for control, and, lastly, their need for autonomy. The findings illustrate that students perceived entrepreneurship positively but were concerned about the scheduling of the module and its integration into their core program of study. Students may have benefited further from a module of extended duration as opposed to the block delivery “boot camp” mode of learning. Due to the limited number of participants and the focus on female students only, the results of the study cannot be generalized. However, the article presents an initial exploration of and offers insights into enterprising characteristics among an empirically underexplored demographic and nonbusiness group.

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“…They are less likely than men to have entrepreneurial intentions and to pursue an entrepreneurial career path (Dawson & Henley, 2015;Langowitz & Minniti, 2007;Santos et al, 2016). These differences have been mainly attributed to women's greater risk aversion (Mohammadi & Shafi, 2018), including fear of failure (Langowitz & Minniti, 2007), their lower levels of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (Wilson et al, 2007), and their more negative perception of the difficulties related to pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors (Cochran, 2019). Moreover, when it comes to financial products and services, women also show lower interest than men do (Greimel-Fuhrmann & Silgoner, 2018).…”

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Are you part of the crowd? The role of sex and environmental characteristics for crowdfunding awareness

Vaznyte

Andries

Manigart

2020

Journal of Small Business Management

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Crowdfunding has become an alternative source of financing for entrepreneurial new ventures and social projects. While identifying and "tapping the right crowd" of backers has been shown to be crucial for the success of crowdfunding campaigns, we still lack a basic understanding of why individuals become backers in the first place and why so many others do not. Building on information processing theory, we advance crowdfunding awareness as an important precedent to actual engagement as a backer. We hypothesize and-using a sample of 1,042 individuals in Flanders (Belgium)-show that individuals' crowdfunding awareness depends on whether they are male or female, as well as on the (perceived) socioeconomic environment they are in. Furthermore, our findings suggest that women tend to derive their crowdfunding awareness to a larger extent from these environmental characteristics than men. These results have important implications for theory and practice.

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What's Gender Got to Do with It? The Experiences of U.S. Women Entrepreneurship Students

Cited by 34 publications

References 42 publications

Entrepreneurial intentions and gender: pathways to start-up

Entrepreneurial intentions and gender: pathways to start-up

Assessing the enterprising tendencies of Arab female undergraduate engineering students in the Sultanate of Oman

Are you part of the crowd? The role of sex and environmental characteristics for crowdfunding awareness

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