Browsing by Subject "Female entrepreneurship"

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    It's a man's world? The rise of female entrepreneurship during privatization in Serbia
    (2020) Kufenko, Vadim; Ivanovic, Vladan
    The relationship between female empowerment and economic development is one of the most complex examples of reverse causality, yet multiple scholars acknowledge that female empowerment promotes economic progress. One of the crucial aspects of female empowerment is female entrepreneurship; however, the literature on the emergence of female entrepreneurship is scarce. We focus on the rise of female entrepreneurship in Serbia and collect an extensive biographical dataset of women, who took part in privatization. Although women enjoyed the same de jure rights as men, they faced a number of informal restrictions such as i) patriarchal values, limiting the role of women in the society and ii) occupations in low-wage sectors, making it difficult to accumulate capital. Analyzing the determinants of failures of the newly privatized firms during 2002{2019 we find a significant negative relationship between the risks of failure and the cases of own independent entrepreneurial success of women prior to privatization as well as the cases, in which only the entrepreneurial success of husbands of these women was registered. This relationship is robust to controlling for diverse characteristics of firms and to inclusion of ownership duration. We also find that the presence of influential husbands in the background was not significantly related to the subsequent change of ownership. Although the ownership change was registered for the majority of firms in our sample, we find that during the Serbian privatization women managed to build up on their own entrepreneurial success, which contributed to female empowerment. These findings can be relevant for understanding the aftermath of privatizations with respect to gender inequality in other transition countries.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    When entrepreneurship becomes a matter of perspective — Four studies exploring the perception of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs
    (2021) Prochotta, Alicia; Kuckertz, Andreas
    The belief that entrepreneurship is crucial to address various economic and social problems, like unemployment, has embedded entrepreneurship into mostly political discourses around the world. However, what has often been ignored is the fact that entrepreneurship requires entrepreneurs. Despite its (economic and social) contributions, for instance, very little is known about how appealing entrepreneurship is for individuals, which might be crucial as the attractiveness of entrepreneurship is related to how many individuals choose to become entrepreneurs. In this context, the question also arises of how entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs are generally perceived and understood. What is “entrepreneurial” seems difficult for many to define as different players in society (e.g., policymakers, financers, entrepreneurs, or society as a whole) perceive things differently. Previous research findings show that the mere existence of resources will not translate into the thriving of entrepreneurship in an economy per se as this does not implicate that entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs are favored and encouraged by society or societal actors. Against this background, the present dissertation is guided by the overall research question: What are the perceptions held about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship by different stakeholders (and entrepreneurs themselves)?