Nancy M. Carter, Colette Henry, Barra O. Cinneide

Female Entrepreneurship

Implications for Education, Training and Policy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780415488051
• ISBN-10: 0415488052
• Artikelnr.: 25467080

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Julie Kenny - Chair of the Small Business Council (SBC) 1.
Introduction Part 1 - Understanding Female Entrepreneurship 2. Female
Entrepreneurship - Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Perspectives 3.
Gender Differences in the Goals of Owner-Operated SMEs 4. Attitudes Towards
Entrepreneurship Among Female and Male Undergraduates 5. Media Expressions
of Entrepreneurs - Presentation and Discourses of Male and Female
Entrepreneurs in Norway 6. An Exploration of Networking Practices of Female
Entrepreneurs Part 2 - Promoting Female Entrepreneurship 7. Women and New
Business Creation - Breaking Down the Risk Barriers 8. Enhancing Women's
Financial Strategies for Entrepreneurial Success 9. Women in Engineering
and Technological Self-Employment: Initiates Towards Overcoming the
Obstacles 10. Identifying Best Practice in the Promotion of Female
Entrepreneurship 11. Conclusions - Implications for Education, Training and
Policy