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Bowen and Hisrich (1986) on the Female Entrepreneur: 30 Years of Research and New Directions for Gender and Entrepreneurship Scholarship

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At the time of its publication three decades ago, Bowen and Hisrich’s 1986 Academy of Management Review article was one of the first to address and examine the notion of women’s entrepreneurship and focus attention exclusively on female entrepreneurs. Their work was seminal for bringing together, through a career development perspective, what had previously been disjunctive studies and approaches to the study of women entrepreneurs. Their paper offered a comprehensive framework for understanding the entrepreneurial behavior of women through a careful outline of impacts and influences on women’s ability and choices in pursuing entrepreneurship. In this chapter, I focus on the contributions of these authors at the time they wrote the article and then consider their influence over each decade in relation to the field of gender and entrepreneurship.

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Ozkazanc-Pan, B. (2018). Bowen and Hisrich (1986) on the Female Entrepreneur: 30 Years of Research and New Directions for Gender and Entrepreneurship Scholarship. In: Javadian, G., Gupta, V., Dutta, D., Guo, G., Osorio, A., Ozkazanc-Pan, B. (eds) Foundational Research in Entrepreneurship Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73528-3_6

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