Female entrepreneurship to date represents a key component of the business sector
worldwide as, in 2012 more than 187 million out of 400 million entrepreneurs were women …

The aim of the paper is to explore the published management research on women
entrepreneurs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (also known as …

This paper has three overarching objectives. The first is to document the development of the
body of work known as women's entrepreneurship research. The second is to assess the …

Prior studies examining the performance of female-and male-owned firms have generally
reported that female-owned firms underperform male-owned firms. However, it is …

The entrepreneurship literature has been criticized for providing inadequate accounts of
business owners' actual experiences and challenges. Work-family interface (WFI) …

Firm growth is widely considered to be a measure of success for entrepreneurial
businesses. Data indicate that there are systematic differences between minority and …

This paper examines the relationship between human and financial capital and firm
performance for women‐and men‐owned small firms in the service and retail sectors …

This study uses data from the new Kauffman Firm Survey to explore gender differences in
the use of start-up capital and subsequent financial injections by new firms. We find that …

This work examines gender differences among Canadian small and medium enterprise
(SME) owners seeking external financing, including commercial debt, leasing, supplier …

Building on research, we develop a multi‐level framework that draws on the notion of the
contextual embeddedness of entrepreneurship and institutional theory. We examine the …