Do you See what I See? Signaling Effects of Gender and Firm Characteristics on Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures

By K. Eddleston, Jamie Ladge, C. Mitteness, Lakshmi Balachandra. 2016

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

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What signals matter for social startups? It depends: The influence of gender role congruity on social impact accelerator selection decisions (2019, background): “Powell and Graves, 2003) and while women are commonly associated with low-status, subordinate roles, and communal traits such as compassion and honesty, men tend to be associated with high-status, leadership-oriented roles, and agentic/Darwinian traits such as determination and competitiveness placi”
Gender Stereotypes and Venture Support Decisions: How Governmental Venture Capitalists Socially Construct Entrepreneurs’ Potential (2017, background): “In fact, Eddleston et al. (2016) recently found that gender did not affect the amount of financing received from banks.”
The Use of Signals in New-Venture Financing: A Review and Research Agenda (2021, background): “Eddleston et al. (2016) provide empirical evidence of the influence of gender on signaling effectiveness by demonstrating that information signals about venture characteristics conveyed by male entrepreneurs lead to greater amounts of funding than those conveyed by their female counterparts.”
Betting on the Coachable Entrepreneur: Signaling and Social Exchange in Entrepreneurial Pitches (2018, background): “During the pitch, entrepreneurs provide both information signals, which convey the underlying quality of the venture and their own abilities (Ahlers et al., 2015; Chen et al., 2009; Eddleston et al., 2014) and interpersonal signals, which convey insights into how committed the entrepreneur is (Busen”