Original scientific paper

THE SCARCITY OF FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Polona TOMINC
Miroslav REBERNIK

Abstract

The main part of our paper presents an analysis of women’s
participation in the entrepreneurial process in the earliest
stage – we were interested in gender differences with regard
to the ability to create or start a new business. Our research
is based on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
project. The results of this analysis revealed that there are
evident differences between male and female entrepreneurs
in the earliest stage of the entrepreneurship process, as well
as among the 37 countries included in the GEM. There are a
number of factors suggesting that dissimilar processes lead
to opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship, which holds
for men and women, and that processes that affect female
entrepreneurship are different from those affecting male
entrepreneurship. Specific attention in this paper is given,
primarily, to Slovenia as well as to Croatia.

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Hrčak ID:

16237

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/16237

Publication date:

31.10.2004.

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