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Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs and Their Businesses
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 415

Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs and Their Businesses

The female entrepreneurship researchers community has to thank these women for their brilliant work in reviewing, revising and selecting the best papers from the second Diana International Conference that were finally edited for this volume. . . the book is a good compendium of female entrepreneurship circumstances in different countries that focuses specifically on the explanation as to why gender plays a role in the number of ventures started by women and why they are in general smaller and less growth-oriented. Manuela Pardo-del-Val, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal . . . this edited text draws upon a range of international contributors to present a comparative overvi...

Women Entrepreneurs and the Global Environment for Growth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383

Women Entrepreneurs and the Global Environment for Growth

Women's entrepreneurship research and the understanding of factors influencing the growth of women-owned business advanced significantly over the last decade. Yet, challenges remain. Women Entrepreneurs and the Global Environment for Growth provides wide-ranging insights on the challenges women entrepreneurs face growing their businesses and how these may be addressed. This volume is rooted in research and considers growth challenges both contextually and firm specific, provoking current thought and enriching the current literature on gender and entrepreneurship. Part one highlights how contextual factors, and especially social and familial settings of entrepreneurs, have a differential impa...

Handbook of University-wide Entrepreneurship Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Handbook of University-wide Entrepreneurship Education

. . . this Handbook is inspiring. It is designed to assist educators in developing new programmes and pedagogical approaches based upon the previous experiences of others who have forged this exciting new path. I recommend it highly for the inspired as well as for the disillusioned entrepreneurship educator. Howard H. Frederick, Journal of Educational Administration and History This Handbook explores the current state of university-wide entrepreneurship education programs and provides a comprehensive reference guide for the planning and implementation of an entrepreneurship curriculum beyond the business school environment. A variety of authors spanning five countries and multiple discipline...

Women’s Entrepreneurship in Global and Local Contexts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Women’s Entrepreneurship in Global and Local Contexts

Written by leading scholars from a wide range of countries, this book advances the understanding of women's entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the contexts in which they operate. With its impact on gendered institutions and gendered social forces, it will be of interest for researchers, faculty and students as well as policy-makers and practitioners. It is the fifth in the series of books produced in partnership with the Diana International Research Network.

Clearing the Hurdles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Clearing the Hurdles

If you're a woman entrepreneur, think big-and get funded! Clearing the Hurdles shows how to overcome the obstacles that face every entrepreneur, and the unique challenges women face in finding investors. Five experts on women entrepreneurship guide you every step of the way, through concept development, planning, strategy, resource acquisition, deployment, and growth. Discover how to align your business around your personal goals, fill "gaps " in your expertise-and access the money and networks you need to grow fast.

Women's Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Women's Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century

Women's Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century is the fourth in the series of books emanating from the DIANA International Research Network. the volume takes a multi-dimensional approach to coalesce a series of chapters around the central theme: gender and entrepreneurship today and in the future. the chapters span a diverse range of countries, methodologies, and levels of analysis - however, they all seek to contribute to an advancing understanding of women and their engagement with entrepreneurial endeavours.

Women’s Entrepreneurship and Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Women’s Entrepreneurship and Culture

Women’s entrepreneurship is an effective way to combat poverty, hunger and disease, to stimulate sustainable business practices, and to promote gender equality. Yet, deeply engrained cultural norms often prescribe gender-specific roles and behaviors that severely constrain the opportunities for women’s entrepreneurial activities. This excellent new volume of work from the Diana Group explores this paradox.

Female Entrepreneurship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Female Entrepreneurship

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-09-27
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This informative book is a comprehensive, research-based text on for educators, trainers and policy makers. It provides an insightful analysis into the range of issues facing female entrepreneurs around the world, along with recommendations as to how support agencies, educators and trainers can best respond to the challenge of encouraging more women to get involved in the new business creation. Based on a collection of research papers from international scholars based in the UK, mainland Europe, the USA and Australia, it provides a superbly comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities faced by female entrepreneurs worldwide. With contributors from Sara Carter, Candida Brush, John Watson and Elisabet Ljunggren, the book helps advance the general understanding of female entrepreneurship and helps set a research agenda on how best to promote female owned/led businesses nationally and internationally.

Women, Family and Family Businesses Across Entrepreneurial Contexts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Women, Family and Family Businesses Across Entrepreneurial Contexts

The expert contributors to this insightful book explore the latest research on women’s emancipation through entrepreneurship, specifically in relation to families and family businesses.

Gender and Entrepreneurial Activity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Gender and Entrepreneurial Activity

There is growing interest in the relationship between gender and entrepreneurial activity. In this book, 37 eminent scholars from diverse academic disciplines contribute cutting-edge research that addresses, from a gender perspective, three general areas of importance: key characteristics of entrepreneurs, key performance attributes of entrepreneurial firms, and the role of financial capital in the establishment and growth of entrepreneurial firms and in their growth.