Women Entrepreneurs and the Global Environment for Growth

Edited by Candida G. Brush, Franklin W. Olin Professor of Entrepreneurship and Co-founder and Research Director- Diana International Research institute (DIRI) Babson College, US, Anne de Bruin, Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Finance and Director, New Zealand Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Centre, Massey University, New Zealand, Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Research Professor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, US and Colette Henry, Head of Department of Business Studies, Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), Ireland and Griffith University Australia

• Contents:1. Introduction: Women Entrepreneurs and GrowthCandida G. Brush, Anne de Bruin, Elizabeth J. Gatewood and Colette HenryPART I: CONTEXTUAL FACTORS2. Entrepreneurship, Gender and Job Creation: European DynamicsMarc Cowling3. Gender and Entrepreneurship: Revealing Constructions and Underlying Processes – The Case of NorwayGry Agnete Alsos, Ragnhild Steen Jensen and Elisabet Ljunggren4. Female Leadership and Company ProfitabilityAnnu Kotiranta, Anne Kovalainen and Petri Rouvinen5. Influences on Women’s Entrepreneurship in Ireland and the Czech RepublicLorna Treanor and Colette Henry6. The Embeddedness of Women’s Entrepreneurship in a Transition ContextFriederike Welter and David Smallbone7. Women Empowering Women: Female Entrepreneurs and Home-based Producers in JordanHaya Al-Dajani and Sara Carter8. Exploring the Heterogeneity of Women’s Entrepreneurship: The Impact of Family Structure and Family Policies in Europe and the USVartuhí Tonoyan, Michelle Budig and Robert StrohmeyerPART II: GROWTH STRATEGIES AND ENABLERS9. The Work–Family Interface Strategies of Male and Female Entrepreneurs: Are There Any Differences?Jennifer E. Jennings, Karen D. Hughes and P. Devereaux Jennings10. An Integrated View of Gender, Finance and Entrepreneurial Capital: Theory, Practice and PolicyEleanor Shaw, Sara Carter and Wing Lam11. Growing a High-tech Business: Gender, Perceptions and Experiences in Northern IrelandFrances M. Hill, Claire M. Leitch and Richard T. Harrison12. Male and Female Entrepreneurs’ Networks at Four Venture StagesKim Klyver and Siri Terjesen13. Gender, Opportunity Recognition and the Role of Internal NetworksRodney Farr-Wharton and Yvonne Brunetto14. ‘All by Myself’: The Female High-technology EntrepreneurMaura McAdam and Susan Marlow15. Physician as Feminist Entrepreneur: The Gendered Nature of Venture Creation and the Shirley E. Greenberg Women’s Health CentreBarbara Orser and Joanne Leck16. Mentoring Women Entrepreneurs in the Russian Emerging MarketJill Kickul, Mark D. Griffiths, Lisa K. Gundry and Tatiana Iakovleva17. Gender Differences in the Growth Aspirations and Technology Orientation of Slovenian EntrepreneursKarin Širec, Polona Tominc and Miroslav RebernikIndex