Explaining preferences and actual involvement in self-employment: Gender and the entrepreneurial personality

By I. Verheul, Roy Thurik, Isabel Grilo, Peter van der Zwan. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Gender effects on entrepreneurial intention: a meta‐analytical structural equation model (2013, neutral): “(Verheul et al., 2012).”
Biology and Selection into Entrepreneurship—The Relevance of Prenatal Testosterone Exposure (2016, background): “…in risktaking and entrepreneurship can result from gender roles (socialization) that can significantly influence males’ and females’ willingness to take risks (Croson & Gneezy) and their selection into entrepreneurship (Minniti & Nardone, 2007; Guiso & Rustichini, 2011a; Verheul et al., 2012).”
Refining the linkage between perceived capability and entrepreneurial intention: roles of perceived opportunity, fear of failure, and gender (2016, result): “…higher self-efficacy, risk tolerance, and willingness to start up a business (Díaz-García and Jiménez-Moreno 2010; Fernández-Serrano et al. 2009; Verheul et al. 2012; Wilson et al. 2007; Zellweger et al. 2011); however, these results cannot illustrate that the relationship between perceived…”
Attitude Toward Entrepreneurship: Structure, Prediction from Behavioral Beliefs, and Relation to Entrepreneurial Intention (2016, background): “…as reflecting what Ajzen and Fishbein (1980) referred to as “choice intentions,” a direct path was postulated from opportunity costs to commitment to entrepreneurship, since the effect of choice intentions is predominant over behavioral intentions (Kolvereid 1996a; Verheul et al. 2012).”
The moderating role of gender on entrepreneurial intentions: A TPB perspective (2015, methodology): “Besides, there still persists traditional roles within families, where men are expected to take over the family business (Verheul et al., 2012).”
Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Role of Prior Learning Experiences and Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Competencies* (2018, background): “…that the preference for selfemployment is an important indicator of actual involvement in new venture creation (Kautonen, Gelderen, and Fink 2015; Verheul et al. 2012), studies addressed this research question by investigating both intrinsic-individual and extrinsic-environmental factors as…”
The entrepreneurial ladder, gender, and regional development (2012, methodology): “The data originate from the Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship 1 Two studies (Verheul et al. 2012; Van der Zwan et al. 2009) distinguish between stages in the quest for understanding gender differences in entrepreneurship.”
Emergence of entrepreneurial behaviour: The role of age-based self-image (2015, background): “…contexts (Ayala & Manzano, 2014), showing in particular that women are less likely than men to start a business, and associate having previous experience in starting and running businesses with a stronger entrepreneurial intention (Parker, 2009; Verheul, Thurik, Grilo, & van der Zwan, 2012).”
Age, culture, and self-employment motivation (2015, methodology): “First, we control for gender as women may differ from men regarding their feasibility beliefs and desirability to start a new business (Verheul et al. 2012).”
Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed (2013, positive): “…for differences in risk tolerance (in specification B) diminishes the gender effects on self-employment state and entry, which shows that gender differences in risk tolerance explain part of the gender gap in self-employment (see also Caliendo et al. 2009; Fossen 2012; Verheul et al. 2012).”
Individual Determinants of Self-Employment Entry – What Do We Really Know? (2013, neutral): “From the vast group of empirical studies analyzing the link between gender and selfemployment entry, it emerges as central result that women have a lower propensity to enter into self-employment than do men (e.g., Blanchflower, 2000; Wang and Wong, 2004; Parker and Robson, 2004; Moog and Backes-Gell”
Are the Intentions to Entrepreneurship of Men and Women Shaped Differently? The Impact of Entrepreneurial Role-Model Exposure and Entrepreneurship Education (2017, background): “…Parboteeah, and Walter 2013; Zhang, Duysters, and Cloodt 2014) and the influence of parental role models (Bagheri and Pihie 2014; BarNir, Watson, and Hutchins 2011; Cetindamar et al. 2012; Verheul et al. 2012) on the entrepreneurial intentions of men and women, the results were not conclusive.”
Gender differences in entrepreneurial intentions: A TPB multi-group analysis at factor and indicator level (2014, background): “Recent research has suggested that gender differences are more likely in the preference stage (intentions) than in the action stage (entrepreneurial activity) and that additional research on this topic remains necessary (Verheul et al., 2012).”