Differences between women and men MBA entrepreneurs: exploring family flexibility and wealth creation as career motivators

DeMartino, Richard; Barbato, Robert

doi:10.1016/s0883-9026(03)00003-x

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“…On the opposite, work-family enrichment, which can be defined as the extent to which 25 resources generated in one domain, work or family, are applied in the other domain in a way that benefits the other domain (Greenhaus & Powell, 2006); it focuses on the positive synergies between work and family. This helps us understand why women are less motivated to become entrepreneurs for reasons related to wealth creation; they are more motivated to become entrepreneurs for reasons related to family or life-style (DeMartino & Barbato, 2003), they use entrepreneurship as a career choice that provides flexibility to manage family obligations, especially once they have dependents. Women are better able to have an integrating role -taking into consideration simultaneously SEW and firm performance (Cruz, Justo, & De Castro, 2012).…”

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Family entrepreneurship as a field of research: Exploring its contours and contents

Randerson

Bettinelli

Fayolle

et al. 2015

Journal of Family Business Strategy

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Section: 3work-family Interfacementioning

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Family entrepreneurship as a field of research: Exploring its contours and contents

Randerson

Bettinelli

Fayolle

et al. 2015

Journal of Family Business Strategy

158

141

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“…A small proportion of men also enter small business for similar reasons (DeMartino and Barbato, 2003;Bell and La Valle, 2003). Mothers' strategies for combining paid work with childcare often involve patching together a variety of care resources (Skinner, 1999) into a childcare 'jigsaw' (Baines et al, 2003).…”

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“…Both national (Anthias and Mehti, 2003;Baines et al, 2003;Bell and La Valle, 2003;Bradley and Boles, 2003;Marlow et al, 2003) and international (DeMartino and Barbato, 2003;Bock, 2004) studies report that many women start businesses in the belief that trading can be 'flexibly' combined with family responsibilities. A small proportion of men also enter small business for similar reasons (DeMartino and Barbato, 2003;Bell and La Valle, 2003).…”

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Do Enterprise Support Programmes Leave Women Holding the Baby?

Rouse

Kitching

2006

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Using data from a longitudinal study of working-class participants on a youth enterprise start-up programme in the UK, we examine whether programmes aimed at disadvantaged groups enable parents to combine business trading with childcare responsibilities. Business planning and programme selection practices ignored childcare, rendering it a solely private matter, invisible to public scrutiny. Yet this childcare barrier became both a cause and a consequence of business failure. Participants' experiences of combining trading and childcare varied by gender. All mothers and one father had complex strategies for synchronizing trading and childcare responsibilities. However, these strategies soon collapsed, 1 contributing to business closure. Most fathers relied on the children's mother to organise and conduct continuous care but this was dependent on fathers becoming breadwinners through profitable trading which was not achieved. There is growing policy recognition of the importance of the childcare barrier to paid work for lower income families and for selfemployed women in the UK. However, despite recent initiatives, severe constraints remain for working class parents to start and manage a business.Several implications for policy are discussed.

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“…The situated and embodied subjects of men and women are the basis of agency; decision-making, actions and value systems. Women often take greater responsibility for the family and household duties and are perceived as being less professional and less successful entrepreneurs than men [32,33]. Men and women choose to engage in and develop different new business activities, both within the existing farm enterprise [34][35][36] and in off-farm enterprises [8,37].…”

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Gendered Resource Access and Utilisation in Swedish Family Farming

Andersson

Lidestav

2014

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Gendered relations in resource access and farming are two important intersecting themes of gender studies in a northern rural context. However, conventional analysis and perceptions of the economy conceal the contribution of women within families, in businesses and in the labor market. This article demonstrate the significance of capital to farming women's engagement with agriculture using a Swedish case study, based on descriptive analyses of data from the Federation of Swedish Farmers. To disclose the embodiment of family farming, gendered control of land, business activities and farm incomes is analyzed. On this empirical basis, we argue for reconstitution of farm-related entrepreneurial research, rural development policies and rural gender studies from a new material feminist approach. Access to resources, typically land, together with social forces and embodied experiences constitute the basis of strategic focus and agency. We demonstrate that acknowledgement of access to resources in the research process and in the understanding of social relations, resistance and situated knowledge are essential.

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Differences between women and men MBA entrepreneurs: exploring family flexibility and wealth creation as career motivators

Cited by 412 publications

References 6 publications

Family entrepreneurship as a field of research: Exploring its contours and contents

Family entrepreneurship as a field of research: Exploring its contours and contents

Do Enterprise Support Programmes Leave Women Holding the Baby?

Gendered Resource Access and Utilisation in Swedish Family Farming

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