Women as Entrepreneurs: A Study of Female Business Owners, Their Motivations, Experiences and Strategies for SuccessIntended for business and academic libraries, this book provides case studies of women entrepreneurs. It considers problems which are specific to women in business; these include raising finances, finding clients, and the simultaneous management of domestic commitments, especially childcare. |
Contents
Starting in business | 15 |
Planning the business | 32 |
the problems women experience when | 57 |
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achievement-orientated women advice areas attitudes bank manager barriers barriers to entry Business age business networks Business organization business ownership business plan business start-up capital career ceased trading cited clients criteria Department of Employment difficult domestic partners dual labour market employed employees employment enterprise agencies experience of business factors female entrepreneurs female entrepreneurship full-time gender gender-related Goffee and Scase going growth husband important initial interviews labour market lack London Business School main sample major management style manufacturing market research ment motivations networking owner-managers part-time pre-start premises prior problems professional proprietors proprietorship re-entrants relationships respondent's respondents retail role SARA CARTER Scottish Enterprise self-employed self-employment skills small business owners Small Business Research Small Firms sole traders staff starting in business strategies subsample success Table things Total venture Watkins woman women in business