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What we Know about the Mothers of Invention’Women’s Entrepreneurship Research:
Past Trends, Future Directions
Professor Anne de Bruin
Presentation at Best of ESTRAD, 11 June 2007Stockholm
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The Phenomenon of Women’s Entrepreneurship
WOB are a significant and important presence in the world economy
WOB is one of fastest growing populations of entrepreneurs around the world
WOB contribute to innovation, employment, wealth, in all economies
YET….
A continuing Gender Gap in academic research
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Research Perspectives: Chronology
1970’s -1980’s - Gender as a Variable
1990s - 2000’s Gender as a Lens A lens with which to conduct research not just a variable to
measure Context and feminist perspectives important
(Greene, Brush & Gatewood, 2006)
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Mitigating the Gender Gap
Propose a new gender-aware framework to provide a springboard for future research and policy(de Bruin, Welter and Brush 2007)
Extends existing framework of ‘3Ms’ of venture creation and growth: market, money, management to a ‘5M’ framework to enable the study of women’s entrepreneurship in its
own right
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Women’s Entrepreneurship 5M Framework
Assume that all entrepreneurship is socially embedded Explicitly explore this embeddedness through
incorporation of two facets: ‘Motherhood’ - metaphor to represent the
household/family context Draws attention to the fact that family/household contexts
might have a larger impact on women than men
‘Meso’ and ‘Macro’ Environment to represent socio-economic and cultural context of entrepreneurship
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Interconnectedness of the 5 FacetsCentre M’HER Spotlights ‘gender as a process integral
to business ownership’Top Venn Circle ‘Market’ -
Encapsulating also opportunity, the well-spring for all entrepreneurship.
Bottom circles - Entry and survival in the market, requires money and management - enablers of opportunity exploitation
Surround - Encompassing influences mediate and shape other facets e.g. macro social norms, gender socialization mediate M’Her or Market; sex segregated networks mediate Money etc.
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The Future Research Agenda5 Questions
1. What Approaches should be used to study Women’s Entrepreneurship?
2. Do we need a Separate ‘theory’ of women’s entrepreneurship?
3. How can the Legitimacy of studying women’s entrepreneurship by elevated?
4. Should we build a separate Scholarly Community?5. How do we grow Synergies between researchers,
policy-makers and also women entrepreneurs themselves?