دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی عوامل موثر در موفقیت زنان کار آفرین: یک بررسی مطالعاتی - امرالد 2017

Introduction

The findings of pertinent investigations highlight the importance of women’s entrepreneurship for national economic growth and social well-being (De Vita, 2013; Delmar and Holmquist, 2004; Minitti, 2005) and, while female entrepreneurship has risen significantly over the past decade (Carter and Shaw, 2006), its growth rate is two-thirds’ that of its male counterpart (Allen et al., 2008). Figure 1 shows that the percentage of women involved in business venturing (FEMALE TEA) in some regions of the world is far lower than that of men (MALE TEA).

Conclusions

This study analysed 108 articles that allowed us, firstly, to recognize the entrepreneurial stages and the way entrepreneurs - especially women - express and measure success; secondly, to organise the internal and external factors that affect success and, thirdly, to summarise these factors and their effects in the different stages of the entrepreneurial process. We have established that entrepreneurship is a process that, according to Baron and Henry (2011), starts with motivation and then moves on to opportunity identification, resource acquisition and performance. The entrepreneurial exit has been added to these stages because it corresponds to the entrepreneur’s abandonment of the business, whether voluntary or otherwise. A variety of factors affect the possibility that each of these stages may not conclude as expected by the entrepreneur, thus putting the success of the business venture at risk. Success can be interpreted as being a dependent variable without any operational definition that can be expressed in accordance with several indicators widely used in existing literature and that can be organised according to two dimensions:

• The quantitative variable, or the one related to business performance

• The qualitative variable, associated with the entrepreneur and his/her perception of business success.