Women home‐based business owners: insights from comparative analyses

Loscocco, Karyn A.; Smith‐Hunter, Andrea E.

doi:10.1108/09649420410529870

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“…The HBB literature argues that motivations for running a business from home are primarily related to cost minimization from low overheads (Loscocco and Smith-Hunter 2004;Mason, Carter, and Tagg 2011;Vorley and Rodgers 2014;Daniel, Di Domenico, and Sharma 2015). Business start-ups outside people's homes cluster in industries that are likely to require more start-up capital than an HBB (cf.…”

Section: Housing As a Financial Asset For Individualsmentioning

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The Importance of Housing for Self-employment

Reuschke

2016

Economic Geography

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Section: Housing As a Financial Asset For Individualsmentioning

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The Importance of Housing for Self-employment

Reuschke

2016

Economic Geography

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“…Research on home-based businesses suggests that using the home as business premises provides a cost-efficient and convenient way to run a business (Mason et al, 2011). Particularly for women with children running a business from home allows aligning employment with family responsibility (Loscocco & Smith-Hunter, 2004;Walker, Wang, & Redmond, 2008). However, most studies have only looked at whether businesses are based in the owner's home at one point in time so that little is known about how the home-business relationship evolves from start-up.…”

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The importance of housing and neighbourhood resources for urban microbusinesses

Reuschke

Houston

2016

European Planning Studies

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Economic research has rarely considered the significance of the home and neighbourhood context of where business owners live for their business. Conversely, urban and neighbourhood research has overlooked how housing and neighbourhood shape business and entrepreneurship outcomes. This paper investigates the importance of housing and neighbourhood resources for microbusinesses using a random sample of microbusinesses in Edinburgh (UK) including those that are informal and homebased, and various characteristics of the neighbourhood in which the business owner lives were attached to the survey records. The data capture whether business owners have business premises outside their homes, and have used neighbourhood contacts, housing equity or space in the house for their business. In short, housing and neighbourhood resources are used by a large majority (82%) of microbusinesses. The findings challenge a number of common assumptions on the separation of commercial and residential functions, how neighbourhoods feature in the evolution of businesses, the nested conceptualization of home within a neighbourhood and on the nature of home-based businesses. It is concluded that multi-use (rather than mixed-use) neighbourhood planning would help foster more flexible and dynamic use of neighbourhoods and urban districts, although recognizing that this is a political issue. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…It extends understanding of the under-research domain of home-based businesses (Di Domenico, 2008;Loscocco and Smith-Hunter, 2004;Walker and Webster, 2004), by focussing on the particular case of online home-based businesses and highlighting the salient characteristics of these sector of home-based businesses. It also brings together two domains of research that have not previously been combined; online home-based businesses and ethnic entrepreneurship.…”

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Ethnic entrepreneurs and online home-based businesses: an exploratory study

Anwar

Daniel

2017

J Glob Entrepr Res

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This exploratory, qualitative study considers how online home-based businesses offer opportunities for ethnic entrepreneurs to 'break out' of traditional highly competitive and low margin sectors. Previous studies have found a positive association between ethnic minorities' high levels of entrepreneurship and home computer use in ethnic groups. Despite these associations, previous studies have overlooked the particular opportunities offered by home-based online businesses to ethnic entrepreneurs. The study adopts mixed embeddedness as a theoretical lens to guide interviews with 22 ethnic entrepreneurs who have started online home-based businesses in the UK. We find online home-based businesses offer ethnic entrepreneurs novel opportunities to draw on their ethnic advantages and address the constraints they face. The unique affordances of this type of business allow entrepreneurs to develop the necessary IT skills by self-learning and experimentation and to sub-contract more difficult or time consuming aspects to others. The findings also show that, consistent with the theory of mixed embeddedness, whilst the entrepreneurs are influenced by social, economic and institutional forces, online businesses allow them to exert their own agency and provide opportunities to uniquely shape these forces.

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Women home‐based business owners: insights from comparative analyses

Cited by 85 publications

References 22 publications

The Importance of Housing for Self-employment

The Importance of Housing for Self-employment

The importance of housing and neighbourhood resources for urban microbusinesses

Ethnic entrepreneurs and online home-based businesses: an exploratory study

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