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Female Entrepreneurship: Implications for Education, Training and Policy book cover

1st Edition

Female Entrepreneurship Implications for Education, Training and Policy

By Nancy M. Carter, Colette Henry, Barra O. Cinneide, Kate Johnston Copyright 2007
224 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This informative book is a comprehensive, research-based text on for educators, trainers and policy makers.  It provides an insightful analysis into the range of issues facing female entrepreneurs around the world, along with recommendations as to how support agencies, educators and trainers can best respond to the challenge of encouraging more women to get involved in... Read more

Contents

Acknowledgements i

List of Contents ii

List of illustrations iv

Notes on Contributors vi

Notes on Reviewers xi

Foreword by Julie Kenny - Chair of the Small Business Council (SBC) x

  1. Introduction

COLETTE HENRY and KATE JOHNSTON 1

Part I

Understanding Female Entrepreneurship 12

  1. Female Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence 13

SARA CARTER and SUSAN MARLOW

3 Gender Differences in the Goals of Owner-Operated SMEs 52

JOHN WATSON and RICK NEWBY

  1. Attitudes Towards Entrepreneurship Among Female and Male 90 Undergraduates: A Preliminary Study

    2. SHIRLEY-ANN HAZLETT, JOAN HENDERSON,

    FRANCES HILL and CLAIRE LEITCH

  2. Media Expressions of Entrepreneurs: Presentations and Discourses of 120

Male and Female Entrepreneurs in Norway

ELISABET LJUNGGREN and GRY AGNETE ALSOS

  1. An Exploration of Networking Practices of Female Entrepreneurs 157

    2. PAURIC MCGOWAN and ALISON HAMPTON

    Part II

    Promoting Female Entrepreneurship

  2. Women and New Business Creation – Breaking Down the Risk Barriers 199

    3. CLAIRE BRINDLEY

  3. Enhancing Women’s Financial Strategies for Growth 222

    4. CANDIDA G. BRUSH, NANCY M. CARTER,

    ELIZABETH J. GATEWOOD, PATRICIA G. GREENE and

    MYRA M. HART

     

     

  4. Women in Engineering and Technological Entrepreneurship: Exploring 249

    5. Initiatives to Overcome the Obstacles

    ITA RICHARDSON and BRIGA HYNES

     

  5. Identifying Good Practice in the Promotion of Female Entrepreneurship 280

    6. PETRA PUECHNER and CHRISTINE DIEGELMANN

     

  6. Conclusions - Implications for Education, Training and Policy 313

NANCY M. CARTER and BARRA ÓCINNÉIDE

Biography

The Editors: Nancy M. Carter is Vice President of Catalyst Inc., and was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the London Business School. Colette Henry is Head of the Department of Business Studies, and Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research at Dundalk Institute of Technology in Ireland. Barra Ó Cinnéide is Professor Emeritus, University of Limerick. Kate Johnston is Senior Researcher – also at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, Dundalk Institute of Technology.

"Female Entrepreneurship advances understanding and effect change in the field of female entreprenership...[It provides] a much-needed, insightful analysis into the complex range of issues facing female entreprenership throughout the world."--SirReadaLot.org, December 2006
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