STEM educated women entrepreneurs in Denmark, Latvia and Turkey: a context-based explorative study

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International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1504/IJEV.2021.10036772

Sanita Ármane, Seda �°, rem Gärtig, S. Tegtmeier, A. Brem

引用次数: 3

Abstract

The number of women entrepreneurs has increased significantly over the past years. However, literature suggests that women from STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields are inadequately represented in this growing trend. Meanwhile, the circumstances which cause this underrepresentation have not yet been sufficiently analyzed. To help fill this gap, this paper focuses on women’s entrepreneurship in specific educational and country contexts, acknowledging that relations between these factors play a crucial role in entrepreneurship. By means of an explorative approach, 21 interviews with seven STEM educated women entrepreneurs from Denmark, Latvia and Turkey have been conducted and analyzed with a qualitative content analysis. The results show the main motivations, challenges, and support sources for the women entrepreneurs, and provide important advice for future women entrepreneurs as well as for policy makers to increase the number of STEM educated women on the national level.

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丹麦、拉脱维亚和土耳其接受STEM教育的女性企业家:基于情境的探索性研究

在过去几年中，女企业家的数量显著增加。然而，文献表明，STEM(科学、技术、工程和数学)领域的女性在这一增长趋势中代表性不足。同时，造成这种代表性不足的情况尚未得到充分分析。为了帮助填补这一空白，本文将重点放在特定教育和国家背景下的女性创业上，承认这些因素之间的关系在创业中起着至关重要的作用。本文采用探索性方法，对来自丹麦、拉脱维亚和土耳其的7名STEM教育女性企业家进行了21次访谈，并采用定性内容分析进行了分析。研究结果显示了女性企业家的主要动机、挑战和支持来源，并为未来的女性企业家以及政策制定者在全国范围内增加STEM教育女性的数量提供了重要建议。

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来源期刊

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

2.60

自引率

20.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： The journal name relates to Harvard Business School''s understanding of "The Entrepreneurial Venture" (Sahlmann/Stevenson/Roberts/Bhidé), the concept of entrepreneurship not only limited to new ventures/start-ups, but further understood as the concentration of opportunity/growth/value creation regardless of company size, age or kind. Hence, IJEV addresses organisational processes surrounding these concepts: from an idea to an innovation. To bridge the gap between innovation and entrepreneurship research, IJEV emphasises implications of this new knowledge for researchers, managers, public policy makers and business educators. Topics covered include: -Opportunity: identification; recognition; creation; selection; exploitation -Growth: management of rapidly growing enterprises; control -Value creation: for owners; for customers; other stakeholders; society -Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship -New venture creation -Management of technology and innovation -New product development and creativity -SME management -Entrepreneurial and small enterprise finance -Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding -Family business -Gender and diversity -Global entrepreneurship and internationalisation -Public policy, the economy, and the small enterprise -Business and organisational failure