Synopses & Reviews
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 the new business creation.
Based on a collection of research papers from international scholars based in the UK, mainland Europe, the USA and Australia, it provides a superbly comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities faced by female entrepreneurs worldwide. With contributors from Sara Carter, Candida Brush, John Watson and Elisabet Ljunggren, the book helps advance the general understanding of female entrepreneurship and helps set a research agenda on how best to promote female owned/led businesses nationally and internationally.
Synopsis
Today, women entrepreneurs represent a third of all business start-ups, and the need to understand the why, what and how of female entrepreneurship is stronger than ever.
This book aims to highlight the key issues facing women entrepreneurs and illustrate how educators, trainers and support agencies can encourage female entrepreneurship. Focusing on female entrepreneurship in Europe, this book will be of use to researchers with an interest in business and management, gender studies, and of course entrepreneurship and innovation studies. It will also prove useful to policymakers in this area.
Synopsis
Over recent years, the promotion of female entrepreneurship has become a key area of debate amongst academics, policy makers and support agencies. Today, woman entrepreneurs represent a third of all business start-ups, and the need to understand the why, what and how of women entrepreneurs has increased the need for a well-researched, comprehensive publication on this important topic.
At last, this book presents the subject of female entrepreneurship in systematic way, capable of separate and detailed analysis. Featuring contributions by Sara Carter, Candida Brush, John Watson and Elisabeth Ljunggren, as well as international scholars based in the UK, mainland Europe, the USA and Australia, Female Entrepreneurship provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing female entrepreneurs worldwide. The book advances the general understanding of female entrepreneurship, and sets a research agenda on how best to promote female owned/led businesses both nationally and internationally.
Providing a much-needed, insightful analysis into the complex range of issues facing female entrepreneurs throughout the world, this book also provides recommendations as to how support agencies, educators and trainers can best respond to the challenge of encouraging more women to get involved in new business creation. It will also be of benefit to those working in the areas of Business Studies, Entrepreneurship, Gender Studies and Business Development.