Forced to play by the rules? Theorizing how mixed–sex founding teams benefit women entrepreneurs in male–dominated contexts

LN Godwin, CE Stevens… - … Theory and practice, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
We examine how establishing a mixed–sex entrepreneurial founding team may benefit
women entrepreneurs in male–dominated cultures and industries. We contend that as a …

Who's the boss? Explaining gender inequality in entrepreneurial teams

T Yang, HE Aldrich - American Sociological Review, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Sociologists have examined gender inequalities across a wide array of social contexts. Yet,
questions remain regarding how inequalities arise among autonomous groups pursuing …

Culture and gender in entrepreneurial teams: the effect on team processes and outcomes

SC Santos, X Neumeyer - Small Business Economics, 2022 - Springer
This study examines the role of culture in the interplay between female participation in
entrepreneurial teams, team processes, and outcomes using stereotype activation, social …

A gender integrative conceptualization of entrepreneurship

SC Muntean, B Ozkazanc-Pan - New England Journal of …, 2015 - emerald.com
Guided by feminist perspectives, we critique existing approaches to the study of womenʼs
entrepreneurship on epistemological grounds and suggest that the entrepreneurship field …

Set up to fail: Explaining when women-led businesses are more likely to fail

T Yang, M del Carmen Triana - Journal of Management, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing on role congruity theory, we examine whether and when women-led ventures are
more likely to fail than men-led ventures. We investigate the relationship between the …

Embeddedness in context: understanding gender in a female entrepreneurship network

A Roos - … Women's Entrepreneurship in a Gendered Context, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
In this paper I argue that through a process of embeddedness in context, a female
entrepreneurship network is able to challenge gender structures. I investigate how a female …

Women hold up half the sky? Informal institutions, entrepreneurial decisions, and gender gap in venture performance

EY Zhao, L Yang - Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Studies that apply gender role congruity theory (GRCT) have focused on resource providers'
biased evaluations and women entrepreneurs' internalization of gender stereotypes as …

Extending women's entrepreneurship research in new directions

KD Hughes, JE Jennings, C Brush… - … theory and practice, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The dramatic expansion of scholarly interest and activity in the field of women's
entrepreneurship within recent years has done much to correct the historical inattention paid …

Status beliefs and the spirit of capitalism: Accounting for gender biases in entrepreneurship and innovation

S Thébaud - Social Forces, 2015 - academic.oup.com
In this article, I develop and empirically test the theoretical argument that widely shared
cultural beliefs about men's and women's abilities in entrepreneurship (ie,“gender status …

The more, the merrier? Women in top‐management teams and entrepreneurship in established firms

J Lyngsie, NJ Foss - Strategic management journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Research summary: We study the association between firms' entrepreneurial outcomes and
their gender composition. Though highly topical, there is little solid empirical knowledge of …