Role theories examine how individual behavior is shaped by prevailing social roles and
provide insights into how behavior is perceived by others in light of such roles. Current …

A rapidly expanding body of entrepreneurship literature draws on signaling theory. Yet as
the field grows, common understanding of the theory's underlying constructs has become …

Purpose This paper aims to review the existing literature on the effects of the COVID-19
pandemic on gender and work roles to determine whether the pandemic has undermined …

Male entrepreneurs are known to raise higher levels of funding than their female
counterparts, but the underlying mechanism for this funding disparity remains contested …

Underlying entrepreneurship ecosystems is the implicit assumption that all entrepreneurs
have equal access to resources, participation, and support, as well as an equal chance of a …

Building new space for institutional theory, we propose how the severity of formal and
informal institutional voids shapes the productivity of entrepreneurial activities within society …

The use of signals to overcome information asymmetries and reduce the uncertainty
inherent in resource acquisition has become a prominent theme in new-venture financing …

We consider the role that gender-stereotyped behaviors play in investors' evaluations of
men-and women-owned ventures. Contrary to research suggesting that investors exhibit …

We examine investor stereotypes and implicit bias in crowdfunding decisions. Prior research
in formal venture capital settings demonstrates that investors tend to have a funding bias …

In the present study, we conduct a discourse analysis on a set of longitudinal observations of
government venture capitalists' decisions to identify how gender stereotypes are socially …