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Why women enter into entrepreneurship: an explanatory model

Why women enter into entrepreneurship: an explanatory model Develops a model of the factors that motivate women to start their own businesses. Qualitative research involving 25 French women entrepreneurs were used to explore case study situations. The research identified a number of situations that relate to women’s decisions to become entrepreneurs, namely “dynastic compliance”, “no other choice”, “entrepreneurship by chance”, “natural succession”, “forced entrepreneurship”, “informed entrepreneur” and “pure entrepreneur”. The findings do not reinforce the assumption that a majority of women become entrepreneurs for reasons of necessity and identified antecedents to the generalised “push”, “pull” and environmental motives. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Women In Management Review Emerald Publishing

Why women enter into entrepreneurship: an explanatory model

Muriel Orhan; Don Scott
Women In Management Review , Volume 16 (5): 16 – Aug 1, 2001
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Emerald Publishing
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Copyright © 2001 MCB UP Ltd. All rights reserved.
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0964-9425
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10.1108/09649420110395719
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Abstract

Develops a model of the factors that motivate women to start their own businesses. Qualitative research involving 25 French women entrepreneurs were used to explore case study situations. The research identified a number of situations that relate to women’s decisions to become entrepreneurs, namely “dynastic compliance”, “no other choice”, “entrepreneurship by chance”, “natural succession”, “forced entrepreneurship”, “informed entrepreneur” and “pure entrepreneur”. The findings do not reinforce the assumption that a majority of women become entrepreneurs for reasons of necessity and identified antecedents to the generalised “push”, “pull” and environmental motives.

Journal

Women In Management Review – Emerald Publishing

Published: Aug 1, 2001

Keywords: Entrepreneurialism; Women; Motivation; Interviews; France

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