Gender Stereotypes and Venture Support Decisions: How Governmental Venture Capitalists Socially Construct Entrepreneurs’ Potential

In the present study, we conduct a discourse analysis on a set of longitudinal observations of government venture capitalists’ decisions to identify how gender stereotypes are socially constructed and activated when assessing entrepreneurs’ potential in the financial distribution of venture support....

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Published in:Entrepreneurship theory and practice 2017-09, Vol.41 (5), p.833-860
Main Authors: Malmström, Malin, Johansson, Jeaneth, Wincent, Joakim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Decision making
Decisions
Discourse analysis
Entrepreneurial finance
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Entreprenörskap och innovation
Gender
Gender differences
Gender stereotypes
Rhetoric
Social capital
Social construction
Stereotypes
Venture capital
Venture capital companies
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