18. Gender and the growth of microenterprises

Downing, Jeanne

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“…Downing (1990) suggested that personal values and objectives of women differ to those of men. This is because men and women undergo different socialisation processes, where each sex acquires specific sex‐linked personal values and learns sex‐appropriate behaviours (Bird and Brush, 2002).…”

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Gender, personal values, strategies and small business performance

Boohene¹,

Sheridan²,

Kotey³

2008

Equal Opportunities International

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -While most studies concerning gender differences in small business performance have emerged from developed countries, how applicable the results are to transitional economies, where there still exist significant differences in the socialisation of men and women, is not clear. The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of gender on the performance of small businesses in Ghana by exploring the impact of personal values on business owners' choice of strategies, specifically asking, do women and men pursue different business strategies, how do personal values influence their strategies and how do their strategies affect performance? Design/methodology/approach -A total of 600 owner-managers of small retail shops in the Greater Accra Region were surveyed. Results were analysed using the partial least squares approach to structural equation modelling. Findings -The results suggest that there are gender differences in personal values, which lead to different strategies adopted by women and men, which in turn influence performance; specifically Ghanaian women owner-managers are more risk-averse than Ghanaian men, and this affects their pursuit of specific functional strategies and ultimately their performance in varied ways. Research limitations/implications -Further studies will need to replicate these findings with other types of businesses, in other locations. Practical implications -The results suggest that closer attention should be given to developing the entrepreneurial values of women if the goal of greater economic development is to be achieved in transitional economies. Originality/value -Limited research has been conducted on women and men small business owners in transitional economies such as Ghana. This empirical research provides important insights into this field.

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Gender, personal values, strategies and small business performance

Boohene¹,

Sheridan²,

Kotey³

2008

Equal Opportunities International

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“…Algunos estudios también han determinado que las empresas de mujeres tardan más tiempo en consolidarse y registran menores índices de crecimiento y mayores índices de fracaso que las de hombres (Allen et al 2008, Sabarwal y Terrell 2008, Restrepo y Reichmann 1995, Rosa et al 1996, Downing 1990, Rhyne y Holt 1993 GEM es un consorcio de investigación académica sin fines de lucro cuyo objetivo es poner datos generados a partir de investigaciones internacionales de alta calidad sobre el emprendimiento a disposición de la mayor cantidad de personas posible. GEM es el estudio sobre emprendimiento más extenso del mundo.…”

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Dueña de tu propia empresa: Identificación, análisis y superación de las limitaciones a las pequeñas empresas de las mujeres en América Latina y el Caribe

Magnoni,

Powers

2010

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Esta investigación ha permitido identificar las principales barreras para las empresas de las mujeres a nivel global, así como evaluar la medida en que éstas condicionan el crecimiento de dichas empresas en América Latina. Entre estas barreras se encuentran la falta de acceso a los productos y servicios financieros, la aversión al riesgo, las convenciones sociales, las responsabilidades familiares, la educación y capacitación, y la tecnología.

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“…A study by Greg Hundley in 2001 showed that the industry a woman worked in explained between 9-13% of earnings differentials between self employed men and women because women are heavily concentrated in personal services, and underrepresented in the more lucrative professional services and construction industries. Some studies have also found that women's businesses take longer to consolidate, have lower growth rates and higher failure rates than men's (Allen et al 2008, Sabarwal and Terrell 2008, Restrepo and Reichmann 1995, Rosa et al 1996, Downing 1990, Rhyne and Holt 1993 3 GEM is a not-for-profit academic research consortium that has as its goal making high quality international research data on entrepreneurial activity readily available to as wide an audience as possible. GEM is the largest single study of entrepreneurial activity in the world.…”

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