Female Entrepreneurship: Implications for Education, Training and Policy (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)

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.

Over recent years, the promotion of female entrepreneurship has become a key area of debate amongst academics, policy makers and support agencies. Today, woman entrepreneurs represent a third of all business start-ups, and the need to understand the why, what and how of women entrepreneurs has increased the need for a well-researched, comprehensive publication on this important topic.
At last, this book presents the subject of female entrepreneurship in systematic way, capable of separate and detailed analysis. Featuring contributions by Sara Carter, Candida Brush, John Watson and Elisabeth Ljunggren, as well as international scholars based in the UK, mainland Europe, the USA and Australia, Female Entrepreneurship provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing female entrepreneurs worldwide. The book advances the general understanding of female entrepreneurship, and sets a research agenda on how best to promote female owned/led businesses both nationally andinternationally.
Providing a much-needed, insightful analysis into the complex range of issues facing female entrepreneurs throughout the world, this book also provides recommendations as to how support agencies, educators and trainers can best respond to the challenge of encouraging more women to get involved in new business creation. It will also be of benefit to those working in the areas of Business Studies, Entrepreneurship, Gender Studies and Business Development.

Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Series-Title......Page 3 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 Illustrations......Page 10 Contributors......Page 12 Reviewers......Page 14 Foreword......Page 15 Acknowledgements......Page 17 1 Introduction......Page 18 Part I: Understanding female entrepreneurship......Page 26 2 Female entrepreneurship: Theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence......Page 28 3 Gender differences in the goals of owner-operated SMEs......Page 54 4 Attitudes towards entrepreneurship among female and male undergraduates: A preliminary study......Page 86 5 Media expressions of entrepreneurs: Presentations and discourses of male and female entrepreneurs in Norway......Page 105 6 An exploration of networking practices of female entrepreneurs......Page 127 Part II: Promoting female entrepreneurship......Page 152 7 Women and new business creation: Breaking down the risk barriers......Page 154 8 Enhancing women’s financial strategies for growth......Page 168 9 Women in engineering and technological entrepreneurship: Exploring initiatives to overcome the obstacles......Page 185 10 Identifying good practice in the promotion of female entrepreneurship......Page 204 11 Conclusions: Implications for education, training and policy......Page 223 Index......Page 233 Female entrepreneurship : theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence / Sara Carter and Susan Marlow Gender differences in the goals of owner-operated SMEs / John Watson and Rick Newby Attitudes towards entrepreneurship among female and male undergraduates : a preliminary study / Shirley-Ann Hazlett ... [et al.] Media expressions of entrepreneurs : presentations and discourses of male and female entrepreneurs in Norway / Elisabet Ljunggren and Gry Agnete Alsos An exploration of networking practices of female entrepreneurs / Pauric McGowan and Alison Hampton Women and new business creation : breaking down the risk barriers / Claire Brindley Enhancing women's financial strategies for growth / Candida G. Brush ... [et al.] Women in engineering and technological entrepreneurship : exploring initiatives to overcome the obstacles / Ita Richardson and Briga Hynes Identifying good practice in the promotion of female entrepreneurship / Petra Puechner and Christine Diegelmann Conclusions : Implications for education, training and policy / Nancy M. Carter and Barra Ó Cinnéide "This volume takes both the sociology of social movements and the sociology of emotions in an exciting new direction. Truly international in scope, the contributions to this volume cover diverse issues such as the Women in Black in Israel, the Chinese student movement, care and feminism, and the techniques of the Adbusters Media Foundation. The contributions show how emotions connect macro- and micro-politics, examine highly emotional movement-staged public events and address the role of attempts to express, regulate and ignore emotions within social movements. Above all, this volume contributes to the general understanding of how emotions work in a social context Comprising three main sections, the work focuses on theoretical frameworks, movements that challenge states and state policies and movement consolidation and demise." "Sociologists and political activists around the world will find this volume to be of great interest given its wide-ranging approach and its heretofore unique emphasis on the role of emotion in protest, dissent and social movements."--Jacket "Most research on social movements has ignored the significance of emotions. This edited volume seeks to redress this oversight and introduces new research themes and tools to the field of emotions and social movements." Based on a collection of research papers from international scholars, this book provides an analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing female entrepreneurs worldwide