Differences between women and men MBA entrepreneurs: exploring family flexibility and wealth creation as career motivators

By Richard DeMartino, R. Barbato. 2003

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

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An Empirical Analysis of Franchisee Value-in-Use, Investment Risk and Relational Satisfaction (2011, unknown): “Moreover, males are often depicted as valuing status-based career satisfiers more than females (DeMartino and Barbato, 2003), which suggests that male franchisees may place greater emphasis on the “social value” derived through franchise ownership.”
Living the Dream? Assessing the “Entrepreneurship as Emancipation” Perspective in a Developed Region (2016, background): “…revealing that many individuals in highly developed regions start their own businesses for work-life reasons are considerably more voluminous (e.g., Brush, 1990; DeMartino & Barbato, 2003; Goffee & Scase, 1985; Holmquist & Sundin, 1988; Hughes, 2005; Parasuraman & Simmers, 2001; Scott, 1986).”
GENDER-ROLE ORIENTATION AS A DETERMINANT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF-EFFICACY (2008, background): “Research has found that men and women differ in their motives and preferences for self- employment (Scherer, Brodzinski, & Wiebe, 1990; Buttner & Moore, 1997; DeMartino & Barbato, 2003), a particular job or occupation (Bigoness, 1988) or a profession (Valian, 1998).”
Self-employment, work-family time and the gender division of labour (2012, background): “For men, non-family motives are even more central: being their own boss and making money predominate (DeMartino and Barbato, 2003; Gurley-Calvez et al., 2009; Tuttle and Garr, 2009).”
The paradox of the contented female business owner (2008, background): “Women-owned businesses now make up approximately 40% of all businesses in the U.S. (DeMartino & Barbato, 2003).”
Gender study on the relationships between science interest and future career perspectives (2018, methodology): “According to DeMartino and Barbato (2003), women have, for instance, started their own business because of”
Effects of role models and gender on students’ entrepreneurial intentions (2014, background): “Moreover, research has shown that role models are especially important for women who are pursuing non-traditional careers (Gilbert 1985; McLure and Piel 1978; Smith and Erb 1986; Subotnik and Steiner 1992; Tidball, 1973) such as entrepreneurship (DeMartino and Barbato, 2003).”
Gender effects on entrepreneurial intention: a meta‐analytical structural equation model (2013, background): “Sullivan and Meek (2012) only found one study investigating gender as a dependent variable (DeMartino and Barbato, 2003).”
Culture and entrepreneurial orientation: a multi-country study (2011, background): “For example, many women start businesses to become self-employed to balance work and family demands, thus creating a more flexible work schedule (Lombard 2001; DeMartino and Barbato 2003; Georgellis and Wall 2004), like starting an in-home day care center.”