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Women’s entrepreneurship: A model of business-family interface and performance

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Recently, there are renewed calls to develop new models addressing the intricacies of women-owned businesses and the women that head them. A new conceptual model of women’s entrepreneurship that involves relationships between business-family-interface and firm performance is introduced in our paper. We test the model based on data from countries around the world and show that the model’s links depend on the country context. As a result, we identify new boundary conditions to the domain of female entrepreneurship. Implications are discussed.

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  1. Bryan School of Business & Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, P.O. Box 26170, Greensboro, NC, 27402-6170, USA

    Dianne H. B. Welsh

  2. Goodman School of Business, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1, Canada

    Eugene Kaciak

  3. Department of Quantitative Methods and Information Technology, Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland

    Eugene Kaciak

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Welsh, D.H.B., Kaciak, E. Women’s entrepreneurship: A model of business-family interface and performance. Int Entrep Manag J 14, 627–637 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-018-0507-6

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