Entrepreneurial Women and Men: Two Different Species?

By Marc Cowling, Mark P. Taylor. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Job satisfaction and self-employment: autonomy or personality? (2012, background): “Cowling and Taylor 2001; Smallbone and Welter 2001), relatively little is known about the impact of personal values, personality traits and autonomy indicators in a cross-European context.”
Gender factors and female entrepreneurship: International evidence and policy implications (2010, background): “A recent study found education to be positively associated with the probability of self-employment over wage employment ( Cowling and Taylor 2001 ).”
Linking female entrepreneurs' motivation to business survival (2015, background): “In most studies (Hisrich & Brush, 1987) authors conclude that female business owners have better standard training than average members of population including male business owners (Cowling & Taylor, 2001).”
Gender Issues in Entrepreneurship (2009, background): “Indeed, quite a bit of empirical evidence 4 Introduction shows that such differences exist (for example, see Blanchflower, 2004; Cowling and Taylor, 2001; Minniti et al., 2005, among others).”
The effect of curricular and extracurricular activities on university students’ entrepreneurial intention and competences (2017, background): “Thus, different studies have found a positive relationship between an individual’s educational level and their intention towards entrepreneurship (Robinson and Sexton 1994; Delmar and Davidsson 2000; Cowling and Taylor 2001).”
Advancing a Framework for Coherent Research on Women's Entrepreneurship (2007, background): “…the business or the entrepreneur (Thornton, 1999), the location (Mirchandani, 1999), industry differences, and the size of the business (Anna et al., 2000), with the individual characteristics of the entrepreneur representing an additional layer (Cowling & Taylor, 2001; Kalleberg & Leicht, 1991).”
Personality Characteristics of Self-Employed; An Empirical Study (2005, background): “example flexible time schemes (Cowling and Taylor, 2001), we expect a positive relationship between male and self-employed.”
Diversity in Entrepreneurship: Ethnic and Female Roles in Urban Economic Life (2003, background): “Although their focus was not on ethnic female entrepreneurship, the research conducted by Cowling and Taylor (2001) emphasised the importance of minorities in self-employment.”
Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Propensity (2013, unknown): “Using U.K. data, Cowling and Taylor (2001), among others, suggested that decisions about employment and marriage, household production and child-rearing are interdependent.”
Entrepreneurial attitude and economic growth: A cross-section of 54 regions (2004, background): “Though there are arguments favouring female self-employment, for example flexible time schemes ( Cowling and Taylor 2001 ), we expect more male respondents to be self-employed.”
Entrepreneurial culture, regional innovativeness and economic growth (2007, unknown): “With respect to age, we expect a curvilinear relationship, as very young and very old people are not expected to be self-employed (Evans and Leighton 1989; Storey 1994; Cowling and Taylor 2001 ).”
Women entrepreneurship in small service firms: motivations, barriers and performance (2012, background): “Several authors concur in indicating that most women start up small-scale businesses, both in terms of turnover and numbers of employees (Carter & Rosa, 1998; Cowling & Taylor, 2001; Cuba et al., 1983; ENSR, 1996; Hisrich & Brush, 1983; Humphreys & McClung, 1981; Scott, 1986).”
Gender and field of study as determinants of self-employment (2010, background): “There is evidence that selfemployed women have different characteristics than self-employed men (Cowling and Taylor 2001; Georgellis and Wall 2005).”
Factors affecting the success of women entrepreneurs (2012, background): “2001) conclude that women business owners have a better overall education than the majority of the population, including their male counterparts (Cowling and Taylor 2001).”