Description
The literature in 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 Companion to Global Female Entrepreneurship brings together the latest international research, concepts and thinking in the area. With a strong international dimension, this book will facilitate comparative discussion and analysis on all aspects of female entrepreneurship, including start-ups, socio-economic influences, entrepreneurial capital and minority entrepreneurship.
Reflecting the subject’s growing importance for researchers, academics and policy makers as well as those involved in supporting women’s entrepreneurship through training programmes, networks, consultancy or the provision of venture capital, The Routledge Companion to Global Female Entrepreneurship will be an invaluable reference resource.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Context and Practice of Female Entrepreneurship
Colette Henry, Teresa Nelson & Kate Lewis
Part 1: The Context for Female Entrepreneurship
- 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
