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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article addresses gender and entrepreneurship in a West African context. Through a case study of the network Les Femmes Entrepreneurs in Ngaoundere, North Cameroon, gendered spaces and how these are...
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From:International Trade Forum (Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn North Africa, women entrepreneurs are discovering the potential of online business platforms, but having a website alone is not enough. Success in the online environment also depends on having a good business and...
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From:Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEntrepreneurship is becoming an increasingly important source of employment for women across many countries. The level of female involvement in entrepreneurial activity, however, is still significantly lower than that...
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From:Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLOCUS OF CONTROL FOR SUCCESSFUL FEMALE SMALL BUSINESS PROPRIETORS(*) Research was conducted with 97 female business owners to examine the association between perceived control and business success, reflected in...
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From:International Trade Forum (Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThere are two main roadblocks to increasing women's share of international procurement, though neither is easy to address. First, women entrepreneurs who want to sell their products or services to multinational...
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From:OR/MS Today (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS celebrates and recognizes a person who has contributed significantly to the advancement and recognition of women in the field of operations research and the management...
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From:Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy (Vol. 31) Peer-ReviewedI started Collective Avenue Coffee, Los Angeles's first worker-owned cooperative coffee shop based in Lynwood, California. A working-class, Latino community in South East Los Angeles, Lynwood is independently spirited...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 20, Issue 11)Byline: Sam Kean The investment firm Goldman SachsGroup and 16 universities worldwide have announced a plan to spend $100-million to provide business education to 10,000 women in developing countries. The program,...
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From:Business History Review (Vol. 72, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere is a glaring absence of women in the historiography of 20th century business and industry despite the fact that women have run businesses and engaged in various trades for centuries. In the 19th century market, at...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedStephan Weiler [*] Abstract Openings of women-owned businesses have radically accelerated recently. This paper explores the causes and results of this phenomenon. Noting the predictive weaknesses of the canonical...
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From:International Trade Forum (Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCHALLENGES Women entrepreneurs can be invisible to trade and development policy-makers. Many women entrepreneurs--whether they manage large, small or micro businesses--don't participate in the business circles...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedThe EU stands to gain by investing in female entrepreneurship in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) managed by women - a substantial source of employment. Such was the message addressed by MEPs to other...
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From:Kadin/Woman 2000 (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOz Gunumuzde gelisen teknoloji ve endustrilesme ile birlikte her gecen gun calisma hayatina katilan kadin sayisinda artis olmakta ve Turkiye' de kendi isini yapan kadinlar gittikce cogalmaktadir. Bu artisla kadinlar...
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From:Applied Clinical Trials (Vol. 16, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedCorporate Translations' (East Hartford, CT) President Mary Gawlicki was recently chosen as one of the Hartford Business Journal's 8 Remarkable Women in Business for 2007....
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From:Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice (Vol. 30, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThis work examines gender differences among Canadian small and medium enterprise (SME) owners seeking external financing, including commercial debt, leasing, supplier financing, and equity capital after controlling for...
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From:International Small Business Journal (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed26(3): 91-100. Many policy-makers and practitioners view female entrepreneurs as a 'special group', worthy of research and policy attention. A summary of key themes in the academic literature has been presented by...
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From:Management Review (Vol. 87, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAmerican women executives doing business overseas are advised to adapt to the culture of the country they are visiting. Experiences of female expatriates indicate that it does not pay to be aggressive and show the people...
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From:Business Communication Quarterly (Vol. 60, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA survey reveals that most of the business students consider successful business persons as being male which is evidenced by the male-dominated business world in the 1990s. To deviate from such common connotation, a...
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 8, Issue 4)Fast changes in America was considered one of the factors involved in increasing female entrepreneurship today. Women eliminated due to efficiency evaluation and women who chose their families than their career preferred...
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From:Management Review (Vol. 85, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedWomen are taking their careers more seriously, as the number of women serving as heads of households continues to rise. Family needs and better opportunities for women have contributed to this phenomenon. As a result,...