1st Edition

Female Entrepreneurship Implications for Education, Training and Policy

    224 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    240 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This informative book is a comprehensive, research-based text on for educators, trainers and policy makers.  It provides an insightful analysis into the range of issues facing female entrepreneurs around the world, along with recommendations as to how support agencies, educators and trainers can best respond to the challenge of encouraging more women to get involved in the new business creation.

    Based on a collection of research papers from international scholars based in the UK, mainland Europe, the USA and Australia, it provides a superbly comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities faced by female entrepreneurs worldwide. With contributors from Sara Carter, Candida Brush, John Watson and Elisabet Ljunggren, the book helps advance the general understanding of female entrepreneurship and helps set a research agenda on how best to promote female owned/led businesses nationally and internationally.

    Contents

    Acknowledgements i

    List of Contents ii

    List of illustrations iv

    Notes on Contributors vi

    Notes on Reviewers xi

    Foreword by Julie Kenny - Chair of the Small Business Council (SBC) x

    1. Introduction

    COLETTE HENRY and KATE JOHNSTON 1

    Part I

    Understanding Female Entrepreneurship 12

    1. Female Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence 13

    SARA CARTER and SUSAN MARLOW

    3 Gender Differences in the Goals of Owner-Operated SMEs 52

    JOHN WATSON and RICK NEWBY

    1. Attitudes Towards Entrepreneurship Among Female and Male 90 Undergraduates: A Preliminary Study
    2. SHIRLEY-ANN HAZLETT, JOAN HENDERSON,

      FRANCES HILL and CLAIRE LEITCH

    3. Media Expressions of Entrepreneurs: Presentations and Discourses of 120

    Male and Female Entrepreneurs in Norway

    ELISABET LJUNGGREN and GRY AGNETE ALSOS

    1. An Exploration of Networking Practices of Female Entrepreneurs 157
    2. PAURIC MCGOWAN and ALISON HAMPTON

      Part II

      Promoting Female Entrepreneurship

    3. Women and New Business Creation – Breaking Down the Risk Barriers 199
    4. CLAIRE BRINDLEY

    5. Enhancing Women’s Financial Strategies for Growth 222
    6. CANDIDA G. BRUSH, NANCY M. CARTER,

      ELIZABETH J. GATEWOOD, PATRICIA G. GREENE and

      MYRA M. HART

       

       

    7. Women in Engineering and Technological Entrepreneurship: Exploring 249
    8. Initiatives to Overcome the Obstacles

      ITA RICHARDSON and BRIGA HYNES

       

    9. Identifying Good Practice in the Promotion of Female Entrepreneurship 280
    10. PETRA PUECHNER and CHRISTINE DIEGELMANN

       

    11. Conclusions - Implications for Education, Training and Policy 313

    NANCY M. CARTER and BARRA ÓCINNÉIDE

    Biography

    The Editors: Nancy M. Carter is Vice President of Catalyst Inc., and was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the London Business School. Colette Henry is Head of the Department of Business Studies, and Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research at Dundalk Institute of Technology in Ireland. Barra Ó Cinnéide is Professor Emeritus, University of Limerick. Kate Johnston is Senior Researcher – also at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, Dundalk Institute of Technology.

    "Female Entrepreneurship advances understanding and effect change in the field of female entreprenership...[It provides] a much-needed, insightful analysis into the complex range of issues facing female entreprenership throughout the world."--SirReadaLot.org, December 2006