Work-family interface experiences and coping strategies: Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice

The entrepreneurship literature has been criticized for providing inadequate accounts of business owners' actual experiences and challenges. Work-family interface (WFI) considerations in particular are noticeably absent from much theorizing and research - despite the importance of such consider...

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Published in:The Academy of Management review 2007-07, Vol.32 (3), p.747-760
Main Authors: Jennings, Jennifer E, McDougald, Megan S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Correlation analysis
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Family relations
Firm theory
Gender differences
Management science
Size of enterprise
Studies
Work life balance
Work place
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Summary:The entrepreneurship literature has been criticized for providing inadequate accounts of business owners' actual experiences and challenges. Work-family interface (WFI) considerations in particular are noticeably absent from much theorizing and research - despite the importance of such considerations to entrepreneurs themselves. We demonstrate how constructs from the WFI literature can help address an important entrepreneurship question that has not been answered satisfactorily to date: Why is there a persistent performance differential between male-headed and female-headed firms? [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0363-7425
1930-3807
DOI:10.5465/amr.2007.25275510