Does Gender Matter? Women Business Angels and the Supply of Entrepreneurial Finance

By Richard T. Harrison, Colin Mason. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The Effect of Gender Diversity on Angel Group Investment (2011, background): “Further, as discussed by Ahl (2004, 2006), Leitch and Hill (2006), and Harrison and Mason (2007), the dichotomous nature of the differences framework can contribute to perpetuating the perception or assumption of differences, despite empirical evidence to the contrary.”
Informal Sources of Venture Finance (2006, positive): “Examples of the former include identifying the characteristics of altruistic investors (Sullivan, 1994), women business angels (Brush et al, 2002; Harrison and Mason, 2005) and successful investors.”
Gender differences in the contribution patterns of equity-crowdfunding investors (2017, positive): “Traditional investors of venture capital firms significantly underrepresent women (Greene et al. 2001; Harrison and Mason 2007; Coleman and Robb 2009), which might lead to barriers in the exchange of information regarding investment opportunities for women investors not sharing the same social…”
Dynamics of Lending-Based Prosocial Crowdfunding: Using a Social Responsibility Lens (2018, background): “Early stage financiers often may want to assist certain people (Cardon et al. 2009; Mitteness et al. 2012; Sudek 2006) or support a specific product/service/sector (Brettel 2002; Brettel 2003; Harrison and Mason 2007).”
A Review and Road Map of Entrepreneurial Equity Financing Research: Venture Capital, Corporate Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Crowdfunding, and Accelerators (2017, background): “Here, research investigates gender differences in the supply of angel capital, noting the existence of systematic differences in how male and female angels both allocate funds and network with others within the marketplace (Harrison & Mason, 2007).”
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Financing: A Review of Literature (2013, background): “Explanations given in the literature for differences between men and women entrepreneurs with respect to access to finance can be categorised into discrimination, abilities and preferences, and competition (see Harrison & Mason, 2007).”
Determinants of individual investment decisions in investment-based crowdfunding (2018, neutral): “Hong et al. (2004) use church attendance, the number of neighbors that people visit on a weekly basis, and the number of neighbors they know. Ivković and Weisbenner (2007) consider households’ state of residence and assign them a sociability measure.”
Gender Dynamics in Crowdfunding (Kickstarter): Evidence on Entrepreneurs, Investors, Deals and Taste-Based Discrimination (2016, neutral): “Females have historically made up less than 15 percent of the angel investors in the United States (Harrison and Mason (2007); Padnos (2010 )).”
Strategic networks and entrepreneurial ventures (2007, background): “Consider, for instance, that most surveys report that less than fi ve percent of angel investors are women (Harrison and Mason, 2007).”