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Cultures of female entrepreneurship

Foreman-Peck, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9826-5725 and Zhou, Peng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4310-9474 2014. Cultures of female entrepreneurship. [Working Paper]. Cardiff Economics Working Papers, Cardiff: Cardiff University.

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Abstract

The present research shows how entrepreneurial culture contributes to the widely noted difference in entrepreneurial propensities between men and women. The consequences of the assumed differential importance of household and family generate testable hypotheses about the gender effects of entrepreneurial culture. The principal hypothesis is that there is a greater chance of females in ‘unentrepreneurial’ cultures being relatively entrepreneurial compared to males. Also women from different entrepreneurial cultures show greater similarity of behaviour (lower variance) than men. But proportionate gender gaps within entrepreneurial cultures are less than those between males of different cultures. These hypotheses are tested on US immigrant data from the 2000 census and are not rejected.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Business (Including Economics)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Publisher: Cardiff University
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 30 March 2016
Last Modified: 11 Mar 2023 03:05
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/78001

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