High-growth women's entrepreneurship : programs, policies and practices / edited by Amanda Bullough, Diana M. Hechavarría, Candida G. Brush and Linda F. Edelman.

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"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 potential of...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing (Publisher)
Other Authors: Bullough, Amanda (Editor)
Hechavarría, Diana M. (Editor)
Brush, Candida G. (Editor)
Edelman, Linda F. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.
Subjects:
Businesswomen.
Leadership in women.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Elgar Online)
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages)
Format: Electronic eBook
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 aspirations / Christopher J. Boudreaux and Boris Nikolaev
  • 7. Gender gap in perceived financing opportunities for high-growth enterprises / Blaž Frešer, Karin Širec and Polona Tominc vi
  • High-growth women's entrepreneurship
  • 8. Women's awareness of financial policy and their debt financing activities: evidence from China / Juan Wu, Yaokuang Li and Shakeel Muhammad
  • 9. Where do we go from here? Summary of findings / Amanda Bullough, Diana M. Hechavarría, Candida G. Brush and Linda F. Edelman
  • Index.