1st Edition

Women and Entrepreneurship Female Durability, Persistence and Intuition at Work

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

Women and Entrepreneurship comes from two authors with especially rich experience in this field of research. Embracing experience in a range of developed and developing countries and examining both dependent and independent roles, Beatrice Avolio and Mirjana Radovi-Markovi profile women entrepreneurs and consider their motivations, together with the obstacles and challenges that they face and... Read more
Part I Female Entrepreneurship; Chapter 1 Female Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Background; Chapter 2 Female Entrepreneurship: Why do Women Become Entrepreneurs?; Chapter 3 Typology of Female Entrepreneurs; Chapter 4 Female Entrepreneurship: Obstacles Faced by Women Entrepreneurs; Chapter 5 Mumpreneurs; Chapter 6 Women and Inequality Problems; Chapter 7 Women in Managerial Jobs; Part II Special Topics on Entrepreneurship; Chapter 8 Rural Entrepreneurship; Chapter 9 Virtual Entrepreneurship; Chapter 10 Project-based Firms; Chapter 11 Home-based Firms;

Biography

Beatrice Avolio Alecchi is Deputy Director General and Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at CENTRUM Católica in Lima, Peru. She holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Business Administration from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, a Doctorate in Business Administration, an M. Phil. from Maastricht School of Management and an MBA from ESAN, Lima. Dr Avolio has co-authored books and written papers and articles on entrepreneurship. Mirjana Radovi-Markovi is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Akamai University, in the USA, where she is also Director of Master’s studies. She is a member of the Faculty of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship and of the Institute of Economic Sciences in Serbia. She has degrees and a doctorate in economics, has undertaken multidisciplinary post-doctoral studies in the Netherlands, United States and Russia and has a number of fellowships and honorary degrees.