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Academic entrepreneurial intention: the role of gender

F. Javier Miranda (Department of Business Management and Sociology, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain)
Antonio Chamorro-Mera (Department of Business Management and Sociology, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain)
Sergio Rubio (Department of Business Management and Sociology, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain)
Jesús Pérez-Mayo (Department of Business Management and Sociology, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain)

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship

ISSN: 1756-6266

Article publication date: 13 March 2017

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is firstly to analyze whether the determining factors of the entrepreneurial intention of academics are the same for men and women and test whether their degree of importance varies depending on gender, and secondly to test whether the lesser entrepreneurial intention of women detected in previous studies is because of the lesser presence of the determining factors of entrepreneurial intention among women or, on the contrary, is determined by the existence of implicit barriers that do not depend on these factors.

Design/methodology/approach

After conducting a survey on a sample of 1,178 academics, the results of a linear regression model confirm the hypothesis that female academics have less of an entrepreneurial intention.

Findings

Moreover, through the Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition, it is observed that this lesser female entrepreneurial behavior is not because of the absence of any of the factors considered as determinants of entrepreneurial intention, but instead is related to the existence of implicit barriers for women that influence their entrepreneurial intention.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first time that a study of this nature has been conducted internationally. Unlike other studies on academic entrepreneurship, the authors do not restrict the sample to one or two universities but rather aim the study at all universities in Spain and, therefore, at all academics from all branches of knowledge.

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Acknowledgements

This research has been co-financed by the Extremadura Government and FEDER fund (European Regional Development Fund) (Code: GR10070).

Citation

Miranda, F.J., Chamorro-Mera, A., Rubio, S. and Pérez-Mayo, J. (2017), "Academic entrepreneurial intention: the role of gender", International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 66-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJGE-10-2016-0037

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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