The Routledge Companion to Global Female Entrepreneurship

ISBN-13: 9781032242231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 416 str.

Colette Henry; Teresa Nelson; Kate Lewis

Opis

The literature on female entrepreneurship has witnessed significant development in the last 30 years, with the research emphasis shifting from purely descriptive explorations towards a clear effort to embed research within highly informed conceptual frameworks.

With contributions from leading and emerging researchers, the Routledge Com

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Introduction: The Context and Practice of Female Entrepreneurship

Colette Henry, Teresa Nelson & Kate Lewis

Part 1: The Context for Female Entrepreneurship

1. Women Entrepreneurs and Their Ventures: Complicating Categories and Contextualising Gender

Angela Martinez-Dy & Susan Marlow

2. Experiences of Women Entrepreneurs in Family Firms

Mary Barrett & Ken Moores

3. Women, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

Kate Kearins & Katrin Schaefer

4. Saudi Women’s Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Social Construction of Norms and Perceptions

Renaud Redien-Collot, Laurice Alexandre & Wassim J. Aloulou

5. Female Academic Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation: Reviewing the Evidence and Identifying the Challenges

Helen Lawton Smith, Henry Etzkowitz, Viviana Meschitti & Alex Poulovassilis

Part 2: The Ecosystem for Female Entrepreneurs

6. Strategies to Redress Entrepreneurship Gender Gaps in Canada

Barbara J. Orser

7. U.S. Women Entrepreneurs and Their Access to Early-Stage Financing

Linda Edelman, Tatiana Manolova & Candida Brush

8. Financing High-Growth Women-Owned Firms in the United States: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications for Public Policy

Susan Coleman & Alicia Robb

9. Gender Differences in New Venture Funding: Supply-Side Discrimination or Demand-Side Disinclination?

John Watson, Michael Stuetzer & Roxanne Zolin

Part 3: Supporting Female Entrepreneurs

10. Supporting and Training Female Necessity Entrepreneurs

Walid A. Nakara, Nerine Bouguerra & Alain Fayolle

11. Entrepreneurial Role Models: An Integrated Framework from a Constructionist Perspective

Maria Cristina Díaz-García & Janice Byrne

12. Female Entrepreneurship, Role Models and Network Externalities in Middle–Income Countries

Maria Minniti

13. Revisiting Research on Gender in Entrepreneurial Networks

Lene Foss

Part 4: Identity

14. Identity Work, Swift Trust and Gender: The Role of Women-Only Leadership Development Programmes

Claire Leitch, Richard Harrison & Maura McAdam

15. Postfeminism and Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Identity of the ‘Mumpreneur’

Patricia Lewis

16. Female Lifestyle Entrepreneurs and Their Business Models

Helle Neergaard & Dorthe Refslund Christensen

17. Tales of Heroine Entrepreneurs

Karin Berglund, Helen Ahl & Katarina Pettersson

18. Perceived Legitimacy of Women Entrepreneurs in France: Between Identity Legitimacy and Entrepreneurial Legitimacy

Philippe Pailot, Corinne Poroli & Stéphanie Chasserio

Part 5: Demography

19. Women, Disability and Entrepreneurship

Kate Caldwell, Sarah Parker Harris & Maija Renko

20. Female Immigrant Global Entrepreneurship: From Invisibility to Empowerment?

Maria Villares-Varela, Monder Ram & Trevor Jones

21. Entrepreneurial Activity Among Irish Traveller Women: An Insight into the Complexity of Survival

Thomas M. Cooney & Denis Foley

22. Entrepreneurship, Age and Gender: The Swedish Case

Carin Holmquist & Elisabeth Sundin

Index

O autorze

Edited by Colette Henry, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland and UiT-The Arctic University of Norway; Teresa Nelson, Simmons College, Boston, USA, and Kate Lewis, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.