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Female Entrepreneurship.
Female entrepreneurship, and, in particular, the contribution of their ventures to aggregate economic activity has gained increasing attention over recent years in terms of theory, practice and policy. This concise book explores how women fit into the contemporary entrepreneurial discourse by recogn...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge-ISBE masters in entrepreneurship.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Female Entrepreneurship; Copyright; Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Setting the scene; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Statement of aims; 1.3 Female entrepreneurship defined; 1.4 Before we start
- a few statistics; 1.5 The lure of business ownership; 1.6 Profile of women-owned businesses; 1.7 Typology of female entrepreneurs; 1.8 Book structure; Chapter 2 The socio-economic context of female entrepreneurship; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Learning objectives; 2.3 Labour market structure; 2.4 Occupational segregation; 2.5 Gender pay gap.
- 2.6 Work-life balance2.7 Workplace discrimination and the glass ceiling effect; 2.8 An alternative perspective
- preference theory; 2.9 Segregated employment patterns and female entrepreneurship; 2.10 Policies to encourage female entrepreneurship; 2.11 Summary; 2.12 Discussion points; Chapter 3 Entrepreneurship as gendered; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Learning objectives; 3.3 The question should not be 'who is an entrepreneur?' but rather 'who is an entrepreneuse?'; 3.4 Bem's sex-role inventory; 3.5 Societal gendered expectations; 3.6 Gender stereotypes and entrepreneurial intentions.
- 3.7 The implications of the androcentric entrepreneurial mentality3.8 The female underperformance hypotheses; 3.9 Summary; 3.10 Discussion points; Chapter 4 Feminist methodological approaches; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Learning objectives; 4.3 What is gender?; 4.4 Is gender a performance or a performative?; 4.5 Gender blindness; 4.6 Feminist empiricism; 4.7 Using gender as a lens to explore female entrepreneurship; 4.8 Feminist research methodologies; 4.9 Intersectionality of gender; 4.10 Queer theory; 4.11 Feminist sensitive approaches
- life story approach; 4.12 Summary; 4.13 Discussion points.
- Chapter 5 Family in women-owned businesses and women in family businesses5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Learning objectives; 5.3 The double shift; 5.4 Impact of family on business; 5.5 Market work versus housework; 5.6 Family embeddedness; 5.7 The '5M' framework; 5.8 Family business; 5.9 Succession; 5.10 Copreneurship; 5.11 Summary; 5.12 Discussion points; Chapter 6 Non-financial entrepreneurial capital; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Learning objectives; 6.3 Entrepreneurial capital accrual; 6.4 Human capital; 6.5 Financial capital; 6.6 Social capital; 6.7 Female networking; 6.8 Formal networking mechanisms.
- 6.9 Symbolic capital6.10 Summary; 6.11 Discussion points; Chapter 7 Financing women-owned businesses; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Learning objectives; 7.3 Accessing finance; 7.4 Challenges faced by female entrepreneurs; 7.5 Pecking order hypothesis; 7.6 Bank finance; 7.7 Demand-side risk aversion; 7.8 Venture capital; 7.9 Business angels; 7.10 The Diana Project; 7.11 Summary; 7.12 Discussion points; Chapter 8 New sites of women's entrepreneurship: high technology entrepreneurship; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Learning objectives; 8.3 Science, engineering and technology enterprise; 8.4 The pipeline effect.