International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship: Volume 7 Issue 2

The life cycle in women-owned businesses: from a qualitative growth perspective

Cecilia Dalborg

The purpose of this paper is to investigate women-owned businesses from a life cycle perspective and with a qualitative growth approach. Building on previous research that has…

The impact of gender diversity in foreign subsidiaries’ innovation outputs

Juan Fernández

This paper aims to examine the effect of R&D teams’ gender diversity on different innovation outputs. The paper argues that some innovations are best positioned to capitalize on…

Business advisory services and risk among start-ups and young companies: a gender perspective

Anna Kremel, Darush Yazdanfar

This study aims to investigate the demand for business advisory services by owners of start-ups and young companies by taking a gender perspective. The study also examines whether…

Women and apparel entrepreneurship: An exploration of small business challenges and strategies in three countries

Nancy Hodges, Kittichai Watchravesringkan, Jennifer Yurchisin, Elena Karpova, Sara Marcketti, Jane Hegland, Ruoh-Nan Yan, Michelle Childs

– The purpose of this study was to explore strategies used by successful female entrepreneurs to manage the challenges of running a small apparel business.

The research methods used in “doing gender” literature

Jatta Jännäri, Anne Kovalainen

This paper aims to study the kinds of methodologies used in studying “doing gender” in working life and organisations. To do so, articles that use empirical research materials…

Telling business stories as fellowship-tales

Robert A Smith, Helle Neergaard

This paper aims to explore the “Fellowship-Tale” as an alternative tale type for narrating entrepreneur stories. The authors illustrate this by telling the Pilgrim business story…