IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/inschp/978-1-4614-1293-9_6.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Women Entrepreneurs and Success

In: Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics

Author

Listed:
  • Kerstin Ettl

    (University of Siegen)

  • Friederike Welter

    (Jönköping International Business School)

Abstract

More and more women enter entrepreneurship, be it in Germany or around the world. Enterprises founded by women entrepreneurs play a more and more important role and can make an important economic contribution. Still, we need to know more about the topic of success and women entrepreneurs. Often, women business owners and entrepreneurs are seen as less successful than their male colleagues but research does not call the previous definition of success into question. Therefore, this chapter takes a closer look at the concept of “success” in general, in order to develop a model of women entrepreneurs’ success which includes both individual and contextual aspects. Building on this model, we present results from an empirical study which draws on interviews with women entrepreneurs and key experts in Germany. We investigate the question of success of women entrepreneurs based on their personal and business goals and motives in order to shed light on their individual understanding of success.

Suggested Citation

  • Kerstin Ettl & Friederike Welter, 2012. "Women Entrepreneurs and Success," International Studies in Entrepreneurship, in: Miguel-Angel Galindo & Domingo Ribeiro (ed.), Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics, chapter 0, pages 73-88, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:inschp:978-1-4614-1293-9_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1293-9_6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Rashid, Lubna & Alzafari, Khaled & Kratzer, Jan, 2020. "Founder Personalities, Behaviors and New Venture Success in Sub-Saharan Africa," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    2. Zsuzsanna Gódány & Ladislav Mura, 2021. "Success from the perspective of female entrepreneurs," Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, VsI Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, vol. 9(2), pages 521-534, December.
    3. Welter, Friederike, 2020. "Contexts and gender: Looking back and thinking forward," Working Papers 01/20, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:inschp:978-1-4614-1293-9_6. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.