The impact of gender difference on entrepreneurship: A literature review

With the development of world economy, it is more and more common for women to become self-employed. But there is little research on the female entrepreneurship in the academic field. We find that gender difference has a certain extent of impact on entrepreneurship after reading thoroughly the relev...

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Main Authors: Jia Li, Xiao Zhang, Junyan Xie, Zhong Yang
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Business
Education
Entrepreneurship
Gender Difference
Individual Characteristics
Industries
Innovation management
Interviews
Lead
Organizational Characteristics
Social network services
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Summary:With the development of world economy, it is more and more common for women to become self-employed. But there is little research on the female entrepreneurship in the academic field. We find that gender difference has a certain extent of impact on entrepreneurship after reading thoroughly the relevant literature both home and abroad. This paper analyze the influence of gender difference on the characteristics of entrepreneurship from such five aspects as the motivation of entrepreneurship, the leading style as the entrepreneur, the selection of the industry, the size of entrepreneurship, and the channel of financing. Wish to provide some theoretical help for the domestic deep research on the female entrepreneurship.
DOI:10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654428