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Female Entrepreneurship and the New Venture Creation : an International Overview.
Women represent the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs today. Despite the enormous economic contributions of this group, female entrepreneurship remains under-explored and inadequately covered in academic literature. Female Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation aims to address this gap by sh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; Personal Outlook; Contributors; Introduction: The Area of Female Entrepreneurship in the Initial Phases of the New Venture Creation; The Entrepreneurial Revolution and the Contributions of Female Entrepreneurship; The Area of Female Entrepreneurship; Female Entrepreneurship and Diversity; The Global Sphere in the Female Entrepreneurial Realm; The Book's Rationale; The Theoretical Framework of this Book; The Organization of the Book; The Book's Model; What Does the Book Not Entail?
- The Book's ContributionCase Study; Marie-Louise Roy: True Freedom through Entrepreneurship; PART 1 Female Entrepreneurship: What Makes this Area Unique?; 1 Female Entrepreneurship: Constraints and Opportunities-A General Overview; An International View; Directions in Female Entrepreneurship; Macro and Micro Perspectives on Female Venture Creation; Summary; Case Study; Female Entrepreneurship in France: Fighting against Socio-cultural Heritage; At a Glance; Comparing Paradoxes: The Cases of Norway and Thailand; 2 Motivations for Becoming Entrepreneurs: A Woman's Perspective.
- Motivation to Start a Business: A Female OutlookOpportunity and Necessity Motivations; The Female Entrepreneurial Mindset; Work-Family Topics; Summary; Case Studies; Marketing Women: A Sector Experience; Necessity Entrepreneurs in France: Women and Business Support Services; 3 Female Venture Creation Process in Emerging Markets: BRIC and MENA; The Emerging BRIC Markets; The Emerging BRIC Markets and the Female Perspective; The MENA Countries; Women's Entrepreneurial Perspective; Summary; Case Studies; China: The Rise of Select Female Entrepreneurs in the Economic Reformation.
- Russia: Marina Kretova and Deonis: Entrepreneurial Growth in the Russian ContextIndia: The Profits of Non-profits: Women Entrepreneurship of NGOs; Brazil: Balancing Work, Family and Social Entrepreneurship: A Woman Entrepreneur in Action; PART 2 The Venture Creation Process; 4 The Pre-venture Stages; A General Look into the Pre-launching Stages; The Woman's View; Communicating the Idea; Summary; Case Studies; Supply Chain Management in Sri Lanka; Inuit Women Entrepreneurs Recognizing Opportunities; At a Glance; Madame Vongpackdy Sithonh; 5 Personal Core Competencies in Starting a New Venture.
- Core Competencies and the Quest for CapabilityThe Competitive Advantage Brought by Women Entrepreneurs "To the Table"; Networking and Social Capital; The "Flip Side" of Social Capital in the Female Realm; The Function/Malfunction of Support Systems in the Woman Entrepreneur's Realm; Mapping the Fuzzy Zone of Ethics in Female Entrepreneurship; Summary; Case Study; Cristina Marques and the Instituto Evoluir: Start-up and Innovation in the Third Sector; At a Glance.
- Women's Empowerment and Poverty Reduction through Mobile Phone Micro-enterprise: A Follow-up Study of the Village Pay Phone Program of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.