High‐Growth Women’s Entrepreneurship: Fueling Social and Economic Development

By Diana M. Hechavarría, A. Bullough, C. Brush, Linda F. Edelman. Social Science Research Network, 2018

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High‐growth firms, often referred to as “gazelles,” are equated with entrepreneurial success and celebrated as the key to growing economies, and women’s entrepreneurship is a vehicle of economic and social development. This special issue publishes papers that address the general lack of research on high‐growth women’s entrepreneurship. In this introduction paper, we offer an adapted framework for the factors driving high growth across multiple levels: individual (entrepreneur and entrepreneurial team characteristics), venture (strategy, organizational structures, and systems), resources, location, and environment. We also introduce the papers in this special issue and present an overview of the contributions to this issue.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/caed2547e7afd39a4431fb63818df8e7bc2b795e

Citations in the corpus

• Women entrepreneurship in developing economies: A gender-based growth model (2021, unknown): “Although these studies offer insight into how women manage their businesses, other scholarly research, including Hechavarria et al. (2019), reports a lack of theoretical perspectives accounting for business growth factors applicable to women-owned enterprises in the developing world.”