Entrepreneurship is a human universal. All over the world, and throughout history, people
have created businesses. Yet, although women make up more than 50 percent of the world …

Entrepreneurial activity among women continues to attract attention world wide. However,
despite obvious gains, women lag behind men in business ownership and economic …

The past thirty years have seen the development of a burgeoning academic literature
investigating the small firms sector from a range of different disciplinary perspectives. In a …

The topics of gender and entrepreneurship have been of great scholarly interest since the
eighties. In this invited editorial, we provide an overview of the evolution of the field of …

Most would agree that the dramatic growth and participation of women in entrepreneurship
and the expanding body of research creates a need for both generic and specific theoretical …

Despite the proliferation of research, the population of women entrepreneurs is vastly
understudied. This is surprising considering women are one of the fastest rising populations …

Theories of entrepreneurship offer different perspectives on entrepreneurial behavior and
activities. For example, economic perspectives such as Schumpeter's (1934) consider …

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 …

The study of women's entrepreneurship has grown steadily during the last two decades, as
the number of women-owned businesses worldwide has increased dramatically. This article …

The purpose of this editorial is twofold. First, we present a framework to help make sense of
how research in gender and entrepreneurship is currently conceptualized and positioned …