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Women Entrepreneurs and the Global Environment for Growth: A Research Perspective
Author(s): Candida G. Brush (Editor), Anne de Bruin (Editor), Elizabeth J. Gatewood (Editor), Colette Henry (Editor)
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
- Publication Date: January 30, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 384 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847209149
- ISBN-13: 9781847209146
Book Description
Women’s entrepreneurship research and the understanding of factors influencing the growth of women-owned business have advanced significantly over the last decade. Yet, challenges remain. Women Entrepreneurs and the Global Environment for Growth provides wide-ranging insights on the challenges that women entrepreneurs face growing their businesses and how these may be addressed. This volume is rooted in research and considers growth challenges, provoking thought and enriching the current literature on gender and entrepreneurship. Part I highlights how contextual factors, and especially social and familial settings of entrepreneurs, have a differential impact on men and women. Part II examines strategies, constraints and enablers of growth and performance. The authors aptly demonstrate that a well-focused gender lens is necessary to better explain the phenomenon of women’s entrepreneurship. Extending previous studies about women’s entrepreneurship, this volume is unique in its application of research from the Diana Project, a path-breaking initiative dating from 1999 to study female entrepreneurial success. Contributions from an international cast of authors make this a comprehensive and broadly appealing reference work.Lending a fresh perspective to the field, this book will serve not only as a learning tool and teaching implement but will cultivate further progress in women’s entrepreneurship. As such, it is ideally suited for students and scholars of entrepreneurship and women’s studies, policy-makers, economic development analysts and gender researchers.
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About the Author
Edited by Candida G. Brush, Franklin W. Olin Professor of Entrepreneurship and Co-founder and Research Director- Diana International Research institute (DIRI) Babson College, US, Anne de Bruin, Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Finance and Director, New Zealand Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Centre, Massey University, New Zealand, Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Research Professor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, US and Colette Henry, Head of Department of Business Studies, Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), Ireland and Griffith University Australia
