Female owners versus female managers: Who is better at introducing innovations?
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- Dirk Dohse & Rajeev K. Goel & Michael A. Nelson, 2019. "Female owners versus female managers: Who is better at introducing innovations?," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 44(2), pages 520-539, April.
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Keywords
innovation; female; owners; managers; patent protection; R&D; firm size; sole proprietorship;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2017-11-19 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-INO-2017-11-19 (Innovation)
- NEP-SBM-2017-11-19 (Small Business Management)
- NEP-TID-2017-11-19 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
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