All Outputs (18)

A nudge in the right direction? Gender-informed support by female business-incubation managers for female STEM-entrepreneurs (2024)
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This article critically analyzes the influence of gendered ascriptions and assumptions upon support offered by female business incubation (BI) managers to female STEM entrepreneurs. We draw upon the concept of nudges to illustrate how female managers... Read More about A nudge in the right direction? Gender-informed support by female business-incubation managers for female STEM-entrepreneurs.

Do enterprise education competitions have gendered outcomes amongst STEM early-career researchers? (2023)
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This article examines whether an enterprise education competition is gendered and so, may have unintended gendered outcomes for male and female Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) early-career researcher participants. Sex-based di... Read More about Do enterprise education competitions have gendered outcomes amongst STEM early-career researchers?.

Gender, STEM women and entrepreneurship: a review and future research directions (2022)
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Purpose: This invited paper aims to explore current knowledge and recent trends within published management research to illustrate the development and contribution of research on this topic and to outline promising future research directions. Design/... Read More about Gender, STEM women and entrepreneurship: a review and future research directions.

Gender and Entrepreneurship in the New Era: New Perspectives on the Role of Gender and Entrepreneurial Activity (2022)
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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 gender and entrepreneurship. Specifically, we consider the evolutio... Read More about Gender and Entrepreneurship in the New Era: New Perspectives on the Role of Gender and Entrepreneurial Activity.

How Covid-19 has underlined Women Entrepreneurs' Resilience (2021)
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This paper critically analyses the complexities of identity work amongst refugee women entrepreneurs in the UK. Once labelled as refugees, individuals are homogenised and disadvantaged by association with this stigmatised identity. We explore how wom... Read More about How Covid-19 has underlined Women Entrepreneurs' Resilience.

Negotiating stigmatised identities: Enterprising refugee women in the United Kingdom (2021)
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This article critically analyses the complexities of identity work among refugee women entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom. Once labelled as refugees, individuals are homogenised and disadvantaged by association with this stigmatised identity. We exp... Read More about Negotiating stigmatised identities: Enterprising refugee women in the United Kingdom.

Rationalising the Postfeminist Paradox: The Case of UK Women Veterinary Professionals (2020)
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This paper critically evaluates how highly qualified women veterinary surgeons make sense of their constrained professional career progression in a context of postfeminism. Postfeminism posits that agentic individualism, combined with professional ac... Read More about Rationalising the Postfeminist Paradox: The Case of UK Women Veterinary Professionals.

Developing entrepreneurial competences in biotechnology early career researchers to support long-term entrepreneurial career outcomes (2020)
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This paper explores how early career biotechnology researchers develop entrepreneurial competences through participation in a bespoke entrepreneurship education competition and whether this affects their longer-term entrepreneurial actions. Specifica... Read More about Developing entrepreneurial competences in biotechnology early career researchers to support long-term entrepreneurial career outcomes.

Paws for thought? analysing how prevailing masculinities constrain career progression for UK women veterinary surgeons (2019)
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The structure of veterinary medicine is changing rapidly from that of traditional small privately owned practices to one of corporate franchises, often positioned within retail outlets. Accompanying this trend has been the increasing presence of wome... Read More about Paws for thought? analysing how prevailing masculinities constrain career progression for UK women veterinary surgeons.

Why aren't more veterinary practices owned or led by women? (2016)
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Treanor, L. (2016). Why aren't more veterinary practices owned or led by women?. Veterinary Record, 179(16), https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.i5401

The increasing proportion of women among the body of UK veterinary surgeons practicing clinical medicine has been consistently highlighted in RCVS surveys (RCVS 2006, 2010, 2014a). Despite women outnumbering men in clinical practice (57% v 43%) in 20... Read More about Why aren't more veterinary practices owned or led by women?.

The gendering of entrepreneurship: theoretical and empirical insights (2013)
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Purpose This extended Editorial outlines the genesis and theoretical interests of the Gender and Enterprise Network from which this special issue of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research emerged. In the call for papers, r... Read More about The gendering of entrepreneurship: theoretical and empirical insights.

Where to now? New directions in supporting new venture creation (2013)
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary and overview of the papers selected by the Guest Editors for this Special Issue on supporting new venture creation in the twenty‐first century. The paper seeks to identify key themes platform... Read More about Where to now? New directions in supporting new venture creation.

Book review: Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Research: Diverse Settings, Questions and ApproachesHughesKaren D.JenningsJennifer E. (eds) Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Research: Diverse Settings, Questions and Approaches. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012. 272pp. ISBN: 978-1-84980-462-2, £70 (hbk) (2013)
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Exploring entrepreneurship education within veterinary medicine: can it be taught? (2012)
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Purpose This paper aims to explore business and, more specifically, entrepreneurship education within veterinary medicine and discuss the perceptions of veterinary students and veterinary employers in relation to its teaching within veterinary medic... Read More about Exploring entrepreneurship education within veterinary medicine: can it be taught?.

Entrepreneurship education: exploring the gender dimension (2012)
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Purpose The purpose of this practitioner paper is to report on a recent discussion workshop exploring gender within entrepreneurship education. Design/methodology/approach The paper sets out the policy background and extant literature pertaining... Read More about Entrepreneurship education: exploring the gender dimension.

Situating the subject: gender and entrepreneurship in international contexts (2011)
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a perspective to further the understanding of gender entrepreneurship. This paper considers the situatedness of the gendered entrepreneur within diverse international contexts marked by different constit... Read More about Situating the subject: gender and entrepreneurship in international contexts.

New directions in women’s entrepreneurship research (2011)
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Gender in campus incubation: evidence from Ireland (2010)
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Purpose Women entrepreneurs face gender‐specific barriers surrounding access to: networks of information, assistance, finance and investment funds, in addition to socio‐cultural barriers. Business incubation literature indicates the supports provide... Read More about Gender in campus incubation: evidence from Ireland.