Does gender matter for corporate entrepreneurship? A cross-countries study
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2023
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Abstract
The accumulated knowledge about corporate entrepreneurship has provided a better understanding of its antecedents and consequences. Corporate entrepreneurship activities are strongly related to incremental, or disruptive innovation processes. However, academic debates demand a novel conceptual framework to understand the gendered workforce’s contribution to corporate entrepreneurship initiatives worldwide. This study hypothesizes that a gendered workforce has similar capabilities (skills, ability to detect opportunities and networks) to engage in corporate entrepreneurship.
Therefore, any gender differences could be explained by the influence of country-level conditions (gender equality levels, culture, and social norms). We tested these hypotheses with a sample of 50,550 employees from 50 countries.
Our results support these hypotheses extending the corporate entrepreneurship literature and provoking an interesting discussion to academics, managers, employees, and policymakers.
Plain English Summary
This research analyzes women employees that act as corporate entrepreneurs. To understand why some women (and men) undertake entrepreneurial endeavors inside established organizations, we inquire about factors like the role of gender, individual capabilities, and institutional factors such as inequality levels and culture that shape corporate entrepreneurship activities. Our main findings suggest that disparity between men and women (gender inequality) reduces the development of corporate entrepreneurship for women but also men. We also found there are differences
in the activity between genders. We call to continue working to reduce gender inequalities, at the national and corporate level, and to those in charge of organizations to promote the entrepreneurial behavior of women and men.
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Ruiz, L. E., Amorós, J. E., & Guerrero, M. (2023). Does gender matter for corporate entrepreneurship? A cross- countries study. Small Business Economics, 60, 929–946. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-022-00617-6.
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Corporate Entrepreneurship, Diversified workforce, Gender, Gender equality, Feminist theory