High-growth women's entrepreneurship programs, policies and practices
"Women's entrepreneurship is vital for economic and social development, yet female entrepreneurs worldwide are consistently found to have weaker sales and employment growth, fewer jobs, and lower profitability. This book was written to address this reality and focuses on the high-growth po...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Northampton
Edward Elgar Publishing
2019, 2019
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBooks Collection Business & Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: programs, policies and practices: fostering high-growth women's entrepreneurship / Amanda Bullough, Diana M. Hechavarría, Candida G. Brush and Linda F. Edelman
- 2. Networks, start-up capital and women's entrepreneurial performance in Africa: evidence from Eswatini / Zuzana Brixiová and Thierry Kangoye
- 3. Absence of opportunities can enhance women's high-growth entrepreneurship: empirical evidence from Peru / Miguel Córdova and Fátima Huamán / 4. Towards a typology of supports for enterprising women: a comparison of rural and urban Australian regions / Robyn Eversole, Naomi Birdthistle, Megerssa Walo and Vinita Godinho
- 5. Stem education and women entrepreneurs in technology enterprises: explorations from Australia / Dilek Cetindamar, Elayn James, Thorsten Lammers, Alicia Pearce and Elizabeth Sullivan
- 6. Exploring gender differences in entrepreneurship: how the regulatory environment mitigates differences in early-stage growth aspiration