International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship: Volume 7 Issue 1

Resilient gender order in entrepreneurship: the case of Swedish welfare industries

Birgitta Sköld, Malin Tillmar

The purpose of this article is to use quantitative empirical data to analyse the degree of resilience, as well as change or reproduction of the gender order, in the era of New…

Female directors and IPO underpricing in the US

Christopher R. Reutzel, Carrie A. Belsito

– The purpose of this study is to explore how initial public offering (IPO) investors view female presence on boards of directors in the USA.

Secular and Islamic feminist entrepreneurship in Turkey

Banu Özkazanç-Pan

This paper aims to highlight secular and Islamic feminist approaches to entrepreneurship as potential means to challenge gender inequality in the Turkish context. In Turkey…

Towards a gender-aware understanding of innovation: a three-dimensional route

Johanna Nählinder, Malin Tillmar, Caroline Wigren

The purpose of this study is to discuss the theory of gender bias in innovation studies, to illustrate the gender bias of innovation studies by using empirical means and to…

Risk perception matters: why women’s passion may not lead to a business start-up

Cecilia Dalborg, Yvonne von Friedrichs, Joakim Wincent

This paper aims to explore whether nascent women entrepreneurs perceive more risks than men, and to determine how higher risk perceptions might limit start-up decisions by…

Gender and the use of external business advice: a Swedish study

Darush Yazdanfar, Saeid Abbasian

– The aim of this study is to examine whether there are significant differences between female and male entrepreneurs’ use of consultation during business start-ups.