Women entrepreneurs who break through to equity financing: The influence of human, social and financial capital

By Nancy M. Carter, C. Brush, P. Greene, E. Gatewood, M. Hart. 2003

473 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Accounting

1. Colin Mason
2. Jeffrey E. Sohl
3. John R. Becker-Blease
4. Thomas M. Zellweger
5. C. Brush
6. Dilani Jayawarna
7. Richard T. Harrison
8. Nadine H. Kammerlander

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Colin Mason
2. C. Brush
3. Jeffrey E. Sohl
4. John R. Becker-Blease
5. Joakim Wincent
6. Dilani Jayawarna
7. P. Greene
8. Oswald Jones

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Thomas M. Zellweger
2. Nadine H. Kammerlander
3. C. Brush
4. Susan L. Coleman
5. Alicia Robb
6. Alfredo De Massis
7. Dilani Jayawarna
8. Joakim Wincent

Citations in the corpus

• The gender gap in venture capital- progress, problems, and perspectives (2018, background): “Several studies have compared male and female entrepreneurs, consistently finding that women tend to launch with lesser amounts of start-up financing (Verhuel and Thurik 2001; Carter et al. 2003; Alsos, Isaksen, and Ljunggren 2006; Fairlie and Robb 2009; Coleman and Robb 2012).”
• Resourcing new businesses: social networks, bootstrapping and firm performance (2010, methodology): “Although some scholars have studied the role of bootstrapping in business start-up (Winborg 2009; Carter et al. 2003) such techniques have not been linked to entrepreneurs’ social networks.”
• Women Entrepreneurs and Financial Capital (2006, background): “This logic provides two alternative explanations of the findings that women receive a disproportionate low share of capital (Brush et al., 2002; Carter et al., 2003; Greene et al., 2001; Industry Canada, 2005; Verheul & Thurik, 2001).”
• The use of bootstrapping by women entrepreneurs in positioning for growth (2006, background): “But emerging research shows that aspiring women who succeed in acquiring equity are those with high technology or biotechnology ventures, who have access to financial networks (Brush et al., 2003; Carter et al., 2003).”
• Struggling with social capital: Pakistani women micro entrepreneurs’ challenges in acquiring resources (2017, background): “…or actual and potential resources embedded in social ties (Nahapiet and Ghoshal 1998), is positively associated with venture outcomes (Stam, Arzlanian, and Elfring 2014), and is especially beneficial to female entrepreneurs (Carter et al. 2003; Farr-Wharton and Brunetto 2007; Tinkler et al. 2015).”
• Financing of women-owned ventures: The impact of gender and other owner -and firm-related variables (2006, background): “This could be linked with the low representation of women entrepreneurs in established networks, where they could find information on business financing possibilities (Carter et al., 2003).”
• Does Gender Matter? Women Business Angels and the Supply of Entrepreneurial Finance (2007, background): “8 labour market or domestic subordination, for work-family balance or as a feminist move – Goffee and Scase 1983) may play a role in accounting for these differences (Carter and Brush 2004).”
• Saudi women entrepreneurs: A growing economic segment (2014, background): “…2004 and Jennings and McDougal, 2007); and Meso/Macro Environment, with societal and cultural norms at the macro level (Carter et al., 2007, Kantor, 2002 and Peng and Heath, 1996), and structures and institutions that are intermediate at the meso level (Carter et al., 2003 and Shaw et al., 2006).”
• Stigma and business failure: implications for entrepreneurs’ career choices (2014, background): “A better understanding of the nexus between profitable opportunities and enterprising individuals calls for greater emphasis on certain supply- and demand-side explanations of entrepreneurial activity that have received little attention in the literature to date (Carter et al., 2003).”
• Determinants of women entrepreneurs' firm performance in a hostile environment (2017, background): “When women have access to networks, they are more likely to overcome the difficulties of obtaining funding for their ventures (Carter et al., 2003, Hodges et al., 2015, Kuada, 2009), which may result in better performance.”