Why are Africa's Female Entrepreneurs Not Playing the Export Game? Evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, Cecília

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3708635

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…We find a direct negative impact of gender of the firm owner on a decision to exports in the sense that firms with the majority of female ownership are less likely to export. These findings are in line with those of Grondin and Grondin (1994), Grondin and Schaefer (1995) and Ackah et al (2020) who suggest a negative impact of having a female owner on export participation of the firm. The results, however, refute the findings of Reavley et al (2005), Shepherd and Stone (2017), Baur (2019) who do not find any adverse impact of having a female owner on the export participation of the firm.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…(2016) employ logistic regression analysis and find innovation and marketing capabilities to have mediation effects on the relationship between gender and export performance. Using probit analysis on a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms in Ghana, Ackah et al. (2020) find that female entrepreneurs are less likely to export than their male peers.…”

Section: Related Literature and Hypotheses Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Employing large-scale quantitative analysis using Korean data, Lee et al (2016) employ logistic regression analysis and find innovation and marketing capabilities to have mediation effects on the relationship between gender and export performance. Using probit analysis on a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms in Ghana, Ackah et al (2020) find that female entrepreneurs are less likely to export than their male peers. Although reduced access to finance seriously constrains the exports of female entrepreneurs, this limitation does not explain their relative inability to leverage value from exports.…”

Section: Exports and Gender Of Firm Ownermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Export behaviour of firms in India: does gender of the firm owner matter?

Garg

Shastri

2022

IJGE

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the gender of the firm owner on the export behaviour of firms in the Indian context.Design/methodology/approach The present study utilizes the data from World Bank’s Enterprise Survey. The survey provides information on 9,281 firms located in different regions in India. Binomial logistic regression is employed to examine if the owner’s gender matters for the firm’s export-related decisions (export propensity, export mode, export intensity and export market diversification) as a direct or moderating factor controlling for other possible determinants of export activity.Findings The findings of the study reveal that firms with a majority of female ownership are less likely to export. However, once the firms indulge in exports, their choice of export mode and export intensity is not affected by the owner’s gender. The gender of the firm owner plays an important role in export market diversification as it is observed that the firms owned by the majority of women have concentrated export markets.Practical implications The findings advocate the integration of gender perspective into export promotion policies in India. In light of the findings that the gender of the firm owner entails a heterogeneous impact on different dimensions of export, the key areas requiring policy interventions are female entrepreneur’s export participation and export market diversification.Originality/value This study augments the previous scholarship by focusing on the intersection of the gender of firm owner and export propensity along with other unexplored dimensions of export behaviour in female entrepreneurship literature viz. mode of export, export intensity and export market diversification.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%