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Female Entrepreneurship: A New Taxonomy of Drivers (2023)

Created Aug 27 2024, 8:05 AM by Veronica Del Motto
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A useful addition to research on female entrepreneurship, this paper classifies drivers of entrepreneurship into four dimensions – choices and preferences, endowments, external constraints, and internal constraints – with different policy prescriptions for each category. The authors also focus on non-economic outcomes, noting that “coaxing women to pursue higher risk, higher growth, higher stress or more time-demanding than they prefer may result in lower well-being.”A useful addition to research on female entrepreneurship, this paper classifies drivers of entrepreneurship into four dimensions – choices and preferences, endowments, external constraints, and internal constraints – with different policy prescriptions for each category. The authors also focus on non-economic outcomes, noting that “coaxing women to pursue higher risk, higher growth, higher stress or more time-demanding than they prefer may result in lower well-being.”