The Effect of Gender Inequality on the Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms
Project Manager:
IŞIL YAVUZ
Section:
Management
Research Areas:
international entrepreneurship, immigrant and female entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial finance, new venture innovation and performance
Project Start Year:
2015
Project End Year:
2017
Phone:
+90(216) 564 9437
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About the Project:
This project is launched to comparatively examine the way economic gender inequality affects women's initiatives compared to men's. In this context, it guides policymakers who especially seek to increase women's entrepreneurship by providing statistical data analyses which display the effects of economic gender inequality in different geographical regions on the performances of the firms initiated by women.
Project Finding:
This study shows that economic gender inequality does not affect the chances of survival of the firms established by female entrepreneurs (compared to firms established by men), but has a significant impact on growth rates and that firms established by female entrepreneurs in the regions with high economic inequality could grow much less than the firms established by male entrepreneurs. The project is based on statistical data analysis. While the project has just been completed today – it has already been published as a chapter in The Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Growth of Women's Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Analysis, Tatiana Manolova, Linda Edelman, Candida Brush, Friederike Welter and Alicia Robb, editors. Edward Elgar Publishing, USA, UK.