Presently, there is no clarity on the complex relationship between entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and female entrepreneurial performance. Based on social cognition theory, this study reveals a ...multiple mediating model of female entrepreneur (FE) experiential learning and female entrepreneur (FE) opportunity recognition and development on the relationship between entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and female entrepreneurial performance. By analyzing the sample data of 558 Chinese female entrepreneurs through structural equation modeling, the results show that entrepreneurial team heterogeneity has a significant positive impact on female entrepreneurial performance; FE opportunity recognition and development play a partial mediating role in the relationship between entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and female entrepreneurial performance; FE experiential learning does not play a mediating role between entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and female entrepreneurial performance; FE experiential learning and FE opportunity recognition and development play a serial mediating role between entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and female entrepreneurial performance. The study provides theoretical and practical reference for the improvement of the entrepreneurial performance of female entrepreneurs' teams.
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•This bibliometric review focuses on the domain of Chinese women entrepreneurship.•A comprehensive intellectual landscape of this domain is depicted.•Co-citation analysis outlined the domain’s ...intellectual traditions.•Bibliographic coupling analysis identified five trending priorities.•Seven key directions were proposed to guide future research in this area.
Women entrepreneurship in China plays a pivotal role in social and economic advancement. Over recent decades, Chinese female entrepreneurs have significantly impacted national and global economies. However, despite increasing research efforts, our understanding of this domain remains fragmented. To offer a comprehensive overview, we conducted a bibliometric review of 85 primary articles and 5,010 secondary documents, unveiling the intellectual landscape of research in Chinese women entrepreneurship. Employing document co-citation and bibliographic coupling analyses, we delve into intellectual traditions/foundations and emerging research areas. By synthesizing these findings, the article outlines a research agenda aimed at advancing our scholarly knowledge of women entrepreneurship in China. We highlight that future women entrepreneurship research can delve deeper into theoretical roots in the Chinese context, effects of cultural values, intranational disparities, multi-level entrepreneurial barriers, digital entrepreneurship, gender differences in entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intention, and the roles of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
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This short article, based on a lecture, offers fragments for a genealogy of female entrepreneurship in the Global North. It argues that in business and management books and social texts, the ...entrepreneur has historically been overwhelmingly figured as male – as ‘entrepreneurial man’. Yet, over the past few decades, encouraged by both gender mainstreaming and neoliberal feminism, the symbolic locus of entrepreneurialism in popular culture has increasingly gravitated towards women. It shows how we might trace a mediatised evolution of female entrepreneurialism and its ideologies: from tragic 1950s entrepreneurial stars, through to the plucky shoulder-padded heroines of women’s magazines and films of the 1980s, through to the girlbosses, Instagram entrepreneurs and hustle culture of the present. What, it asks, is happening to the female entrepreneur in an era of neoliberal crisis? And what ‘left feminist’ alternatives to, or intersections with, this figure might be in our midst, or on the horizon?
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Female entrepreneurship has emerged as a matter of concern in recent years, making a significant contribution towards economic development, job creation and uplifting communities. However, the ...interplay and nuances of female entrepreneurship and social capital are currently understudied. In context of small island developing states, the present study investigates the role of structural social capital (SSC), relational social capital (RSC) and cognitive social capital (CSC) in shaping female cognitive mechanism which leads to entrepreneurial intention (EI) in Maldives. A total of 325 responses from ten tertiary educational institutions in Maldives were collected and subsequently analysed using partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The data subject to revealed that SSC and CSC play an important role in promoting female attitudes towards entrepreneurship (ATE), perceived subjective norms (SN) and perceived behavioural control (PBC), while RSC only promotes female ATE and SN, but it negatively affects females’ PBC. These findings provide policymakers and ecosystem players with important insights into social capital, highlighting the need for role models and mentorship in formulating the right environment for women entrepreneurs in Maldives. This study argues for the need to integrate the influence of social capital on female EI.
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The lack of resources and support for female entrepreneurs and their ventures lowers their chances of success and ultimately leads to the underrepresentation of female led ventures in the economy. ...Thus, to remedy this problem, it is crucial for female entrepreneurs to attract potential investors. The latter may use in their decision-making process cues such as the number of supporters, which provides social validation of the ventures. To test this, we analyze 2275 reward-based crowdfunding projects to investigate the effects of female entrepreneurs’ presence, and the consequences of social validation (i.e., number of supporters), on their crowdfunding success.
•The lack of resources for female entrepreneurs and their ventures lowers their chances of success.•Consequently, this leads to the underrepresentation of female led ventures in the economy.•We show that female led ventures are negatively associated with funding success in a reward-based crowdfunding platform.•However, this can be overcome by social validation of female led ventures (evident by the number of supporters).
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Female tourism entrepreneurs in Bali, Indonesia Tajeddini, Kayhan; Ratten, Vanessa; Denisa, Mela
Journal of hospitality and tourism management,
June 2017, 2017-06-00, Volume:
31
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Bali is one of the most popular islands in Indonesia for tourism due to its beaches, nightlife and religious sites. Female tourism entrepreneurs are a growing segment of the hospitality industry in ...Bali due to their involvement in food stalls and small restaurants. This paper will focus on the strategic decisions of female Balinese tourism entrepreneurs by utilizing a purposeful sampling method in which in-depth interviews were carried out over a six-month period. Meaning units (MUs) were abstracted, which were compared and discussed with the interviewees until a basic agreement of terms could be made. Using in depth interviews and other supplemental evidence, this trend was examined in order to explore how women were influenced by environmental factors, in additional to their culture and heritage. The findings from this paper will help other tourism entrepreneurs how to develop their businesses using limited resources and financial capital but also provide suggestions about how female entrepreneurs can succeed in the globally competitive tourism industry.
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Prosocial crowdfunding was originally conceived as a financial mechanism to assist vulnerable unbanked populations, typically excluded from formal financial markets. It subsequently grew into a ...billion-dollar scheme (Kiva 2020a,
https://www.kiva.org/blog/1-billion-in-life-changing-loans
) in the multi-billion-dollar crowdfunding industry. However, recent evidence claims prosocial crowdfunding may be shifting away from its goal to support the poor and underserved. Drawing on a composite social responsibility and framing theory framework, we examine the role that vulnerability plays in successfully raising funds in a prosocial crowdfunding context. We conduct multilevel logistic regressions on a sample of microloans allocated to 105,727 ventures in 64 countries. Our results indicate that applying for funds through a field partner which caters to vulnerable populations may in fact have a negative effect on the entrepreneur’s request to be fully funded. Notwithstanding, framing the entrepreneur as being female or rural as key characteristics of individual vulnerability increases the project’s likelihood to be fully funded. This conflict offers noteworthy theoretical and practical implications for ethics in prosocial crowdfunding, an understudied field of research.
This study, based on Bem's (1974) gender schema theory, investigates gender differences in and the relationship between gender role characteristics and entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) of 261 ...female and 265 male entrepreneurs in China. The results show that male and female entrepreneurs did not differ significantly in ESE or in masculine gender role characteristics, but differed significantly in feminine gender role characteristics. Examining four different stages in the entrepreneurial life cycle, we find that for female entrepreneurs, feminine characteristics had a positive influence on ESE in the searching and planning stages of entrepreneurship, and masculine characteristics had a positive influence on ESE in the searching stage. For male entrepreneurs, feminine characteristics had a positive influence on ESE in the searching and planning stages, and masculine characteristics had a positive influence on ESE in the marshaling and implementing stages. In addition, one feminine characteristic, "Friendly," showed a positive association with male entrepreneurs' ESE in the marshaling stage. Overall, the feminine gender role factor of "Friendly" and the masculine gender role factor of "Compete" played a greater role on ESE than other characteristics. Implications of the findings are discussed. This study contributes a new perspective to extant research on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and female entrepreneurship.
The culinary business today is one of the most sought-after business alternatives in Depok. This can be seen that out of 1000 business actors in Depok in 2018, most of them are doing business in the ...culinary sector. Because the development of the culinary business is increasing rapidly, culinary entrepreneurs, especially women, need various information related to this business. This study aims to find out the communication channels used by women culinary entrepreneurs in Depok to meet their information needs. This study uses a quantitative approach with a survey method. The sample was chosen using a purposive sampling technique based on the characteristics of women who have culinary business, both online and offline. Data were collected by sending questionnaires online through a google form. Within two weeks, as many as 96 respondents were willing to fill out and return the questionnaire. The results of the study show that in the current technological development, the role of communication channels is crucial to support culinary business activities. Various types of culinary information are obtained very quickly when smart business actors utilize the right communication channels. The majority of women culinary entrepreneurs in Depok use communication channels through group chat and interpersonal communication channels, such as friends and family.
This study evinced the cruciality of female entrepreneurial experience as a gainful propeller of start-up educational institutions in North-Central Nigeria. The focal aim of this study is to ...ascertain the effect of female entrepreneurial experience on start-ups specifically in the educational sector, which over the years recorded a tremendous influx of female entrepreneurs. A descriptive research design was adopted as the framework for this study and the population of the study comprised 43,470 female educators within the North-Central region of Nigeria. The Cochran sample size determination technique was used to obtain the sample size of 385 respondents. Bowley's allocation formula was adopted to determine the sample size of each North-Central state while simple random and purposive sampling was used to select participants. The questionnaires were structured in a 5-point Likert scale as a validity and reliability test was conducted to ensure their credibility. Data retrieved were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics via the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25 statistical tool. The results of the regression analysis validated the data at a 0.05 significance level. The findings revealed that socio-cultural expectations, exceptional economic support, social networking, innovation, and self-efficacy have a significant effect on the growth of educational institutions in North-Central Nigeria. Hence the study concludes that female entrepreneurial experience adversely affects the growth of educational institutions and start-ups in North-Central Nigeria. The study recommends that good government policies geared towards equal support of female entrepreneurs as endorsed by the liberal view of the feminist-based entrepreneurship theory.
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