The number of women starting and owning their own businesses has grown dramatically
over the past decade. Concurrent with this trend, there has been an increase in the number of …

The female entrepreneurship researchers community has to thank these women for their
brilliant work in reviewing, revising and selecting the best papers from the second Diana …

… This research was extended by Hisrich and Brush (1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987) and
summarized by Hisrich (1989), The combined work of Hisrich, O’Brien, and Brush provided …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a new gender‐aware framework to provide a
springboard for furthering a holistic understanding of women's entrepreneurship. Design/…

Strategies for attaining competitive advantages emphasize developing and configuring existing
resource strengths into a valuable and unique resource base. But what if you do not yet …

This paper has three overarching objectives. The first is to document the development of the
body of work known as women's entrepreneurship research. The second is to assess the …

Measuring the performance of new ventures is of interest because they are a major source of
job creation and because improvement in performance is critical to their survival and growth…

… Bird and Brush (2002) draw our attention to gender perspectives on entrepreneurial
processes, illustrating that a different viewpoint will add to our knowledge on how individuals …

This paper develops an organizational identity–based rationale for why family firms strive for
nonfinancial goals. We show that the visibility of the family in the firm, the transgenerational …

… This paucity of research on women's entrepreneurship is well documented (Brush, 1992;
Brush & Edelman, 2000; Gatewood, Carter, … the country chapters in Brush et al., 2006). …