Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the female entrepreneurship underperformance
hypothesis using a sample of small firms. The paper also attempts to explain why gender …

The role of entrepreneurship has been known for many decades as the most important factor
contributing to the economic development. Most studies, regarding female or gender …

This paper provides one of the first known evaluations of whether enterprises in which
women are owners underperform male-owned enterprises in the developing world. Until …

Female entrepreneurs contribute significantly to the global economy especially through
employment creation, contributing to diversity in entrepreneurship and economic growth …

Women are increasingly venturing into ownership of micro and small enterprises, either on
their own or in partnership with male entrepreneurs. Using national survey data from Malawi …

This paper examines 2 years of data from GEM Canada in order to develop new insights into
the factors that contribute to the performance outcomes of female enterprises and how these …

Purpose–Women‐owned businesses are frequently described as under‐performing in that
the majority remain small and marginal. The authors dispute this description; within this …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess determinants of returns to male and female
entrepreneurship in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda at selected quantiles along the distribution …

The objective of the paper is to present a comparative analysis of the performance of men-
owned and women-owned businesses. The study uses a multidimensional framework of …

Research into entrepreneurship has for many years been interested in the differences in rate
of participation and performance by female entrepreneurs. The motivation for considering …