International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship: Volume 9 Issue 3

Women’s entrepreneurship policy: a 13 nation cross-country comparison

Colette Henry, Barbara Orser, Susan Coleman, Lene Foss

Government attention to women’s entrepreneurship has increased in the past two decades; however, there are few cross-cultural studies to inform policy development. This paper aims…

Gender and succession planning: opportunities for females to lead Indonesian family businesses

Veland Ramadani, Robert D. Hisrich, Grisna Anggadwita, Dini Turipanam Alamanda

This paper aims to identify the opportunities for them to manage this type of company within the Indonesian context.

How women entrepreneurs build embeddedness: a case study approach

Maria Aggestam, Caroline Wigren-Kristoferson

The purpose of this study is to examine how women entrepreneurs are building embeddedness into male-gendered fields and how they are creating embedding in such fields in practice.

An exploration of gender, interlocking directorates, and corporate performance

Sean B. O’Hagan

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact that women who sit on boards of directors, as well as women that are part of an interlocking directorate, have on corporate…

Personal wealth and perceptions of barriers to women’s entrepreneurship in the state of Alabama: The mediating effects of affordable child care

Ravi Chinta, Anthony Andall, Shawn Best

For women entrepreneurs, personal wealth is seen as a promoter, but lack of affordable child care is viewed as an inhibitor. Based on data from 1,284 nascent women entrepreneurs…