1st Edition

Women Entrepreneurs Developing Leadership for Success

By Sandra J. Wells, Stuart Bruchey Copyright 1998
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    190 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1998. Female entrepreneurs represent a rapidly growing element of corporate America, as evidenced in The National Women's Business Council's 1991 Annual Report to the President of the United States and Congress. Given that so much of the business of America is composed of organizations started and run by women, a sobering statistic presented in the same report attests to the failure rate of these businesses: women-owned businesses fail at a rate seven to eleven percent higher than businesses owned by men. Given the theoretical foundation of the nature of adult learning, this research explored the phenomenon of learning for a select group of adult learners, a group of successful female entrepreneurs.

    Chapter 1 The Study; Chapter 2 Review of the Literature; Chapter 3 Methodology of the Study; Chapter 4 The Data; Chapter 5 Discussion of Findings, Conclusions, and Implications of this Study;

    Biography

    Sandra J. Wells