About Gender Differences and the Social Environment in the Development of Entrepreneurial Intentions

By Francisco J. Santos, M. Roomi, F. Liñán. 2016

320 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This study analyzes the interplay between gender differences and the social environment in the formation of entrepreneurial intentions. Data were obtained from two different European regions. The results show that the formation of entrepreneurial intentions is similar for men and women. At the same time, men consistently exhibit more favorable intentions than women do. Nevertheless, the perception of the social legitimation of entrepreneurship only serves to reinforce male entrepreneurial intentions, and not those of women. This holds for both regions and probably is a consequence of women feeling entrepreneurship to not be an acceptable career option for them. The implications of these results are discussed.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/77d926118dd2ff54d0515c97282d36e8ef8a1fff

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Management of Technology and Innovation

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

Social cognitive determinants of entrepreneurial career choice in university students (2016, background): “1 Although the effects of such dimensions on intentions have been widely documented (Liñán et al., 2011; Santos et al., 2014), the measures used in different studies are not always comparable and may refer to related, but different, dimensions (Chandler and Lyon, 2001; Liñán and Chen, 2009).”
Exploring the factors that mediate the relationship between entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intentions among undergraduate students in Ghana (2020, methodology): “Scales from Santos et al. (2016) for measuring entrepreneurial attitudes by using the theory of planned behaviour was adopted.”
Role of entrepreneurial education in shaping entrepreneurial intention among university students: Testing the hypotheses using mediation and moderation approach (2021, background): “The convenience sampling technique has been widely used in the field of entrepreneurial intention researches across the globe and fetched reliable results (Anwar, Jamal, et al., 2020; Anwar, Saleem, et al., 2020; Fayolle & Gailly, 2005; Li~n an & Chen, 2009; Roy et al. 2017).”
Entrepreneurial intentions and start-ups: Are women or men more likely to enact their intentions? (2018, background): “, 2013; Shane, 2008) and that men own more and larger businesses (Koellinger et al., 2013; Marlow, 2002; Santos et al., 2016; Westhead and Zolesvik, 2016).”
The moderating role of entrepreneurship education on the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention (2016, unknown): “Previous research has paid considerable attention to studying the direct effects of SN and entrepreneurship education on the attitude toward entrepreneurial behavior and perceived control over that behavior (Fayolle and Gailly 2015; Santos et al. 2014).”