The relationship between entrepreneur's gender and business performance has been
studied in existing literature assuming that it is a straight-forward direct relationship. Instead …

The aim of this research is twofold: establishing whether access to bank financing facilitates
innovation in SMEs and whether such effect can be explained from a gender perspective …

This study, at the intersection of gender, entrepreneurship and innovation, investigates the
impact of women leadership (vis-a-vis men) on innovation by SMEs in an emerging …

This paper analyses the role of gender of the chief executive officer (CEO) on the propensity
to introduce innovations using a sample of 1405 Spanish small-and medium-sized …

Recent studies have included gender diversity as a driver of innovations at firm level. This
paper analyses the effect that firm size may exert on the link between gender diversity and …

Abstract Research Summary Our study provides novel insights into how women influence
SME innovation in emerging markets, despite the resource‐constrained and gender …

Purpose The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between gender,
innovation and growth in Italian innovative start-ups. Design/methodology/approach This is …

Women entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as a key to a nation's economic growth and
serves as one of the main drivers for growth in emerging economies. However, the …

This study examines the impact of gender at three different positions in a firm's hierarchy on
innovative activities, looking at over 6474 firms in 30 emerging countries. We create a …

This research examines how gender diversity interacts with women's economic opportunity,
such as prevailing laws, practices and attitudes in a country allowing women to participate in …