Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs and their Businesses

A Global Research Perspective

New Horizons in Entrepreneurship series

Edited by Candida G. Brush, Franklin W. Olin Distinguished Chair of Entrepreneurship, Babson College, US and Visiting Adjunct, Nord University, Norway and Dublin City University, Ireland, Nancy M. Carter, Vice President of Research, Catalyst, Inc. and Richard M. Schulze Chair, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Research Professor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, Patricia G. Greene, Professor Emeritus, Babson College and Myra M. Hart, MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School, US

Enterprising new firms drive economic growth, and women around the world are important contributors to that growth. As entrepreneurs, they seize opportunities, develop and deliver new goods and services and, in the process, create wealth for themselves, their families, communities, and countries. This volume explores the role women entrepreneurs play in this economic progress, highlighting the challenges they encounter in launching and growing their businesses, and providing detailed studies of how their experiences vary from country to country.

‘The female entrepreneurship researchers’ community has to thank these women for their brilliant work in reviewing, revising and selecting the best papers from the second Diana International Conference that were finally edited for this volume. . . the book is a good compendium of female entrepreneurship circumstances in different countries that focuses specifically on the explanation as to why gender plays a role in the number of ventures started by women and why they are in general smaller and less growth-oriented.’
– Manuela Pardo-del-Val, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

‘. . . this edited text draws upon a range of international contributors to present a comparative overview of challenges facing female entrepreneurs seeking to grow their firms. . . this is an interesting book that makes a welcome contribution to contemporary debate.’
– Susan Marlow, International Small Business Journal

‘The data and information presented in this work will be of particular
interest to students and scholars of entrepreneurship or labor and women’s
studies. Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate through professional collections.’
– E.P. Hoffman, Choice