Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs) and non-SCSTs across the earnings distribution. We find clear differences in characteristics between the two types of businesses with the former faring significantly worse. The mean decomposition reveals that as much as 55 percent of ...

This study analyzes the innovative orientation of the Croatian entrepreneurs. Innovative orientation is represented by the perceived extent to which an entrepreneur’s product or service or technology is new, and no other businesses offer the same product. The sample is extracted from the GEM Croatia Adult Population Survey dataset for the years 2003-2013. We apply descriptive statistics, t-test...

Drawing on network theory, this study examines how the entrepreneurship orientation (EO)-performance nexus is intermediated by networks firms establish with government agencies, suppliers, and resource acquisition. Structural equation modelling used to test model a sample of 556 women tourism entrepreneurs in Ghana Nigeria. Findings indicate that EO positively influences firms’ social ties, acq...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect training on performance women’s microenterprises in Malaysia’s northern states that are members microfinance organisation Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia. A model has been created based comprehensive literature studies. There have no conclusive conclusions about success prior originality research originates from significance information and knowledge f...

Failure of small businesses many times is because poor implementation long-term financial strategies. Women business owners face challenges in financing their they may not have a plan. Interviews with 11 women Cleveland County, North Carolina were completed to discuss ways fund and sustain business. The success can strengthen the local economy by stimulating economic growth, increase quality li...

this research is a comparative study of entrepreneurial characteristics of founders of non-governmental high school in tehran. the research population was the female and male’s founders of non-governmental high school in tehran (totally 507 persons). the sample was 213 people (90 women and 123 men) were selected by cluster sampling. the data were collected through questionnaire that measured tw...

Gender roles demand that women devote more time to non-market labor such as childcare and household responsibilities. Therefore, the market hinders women’s ability compete with their male counterparts, whose is less subject demands of work. The result a performance gap between men women. To obtain flexibility efficiently perform both work, many choose be self-employed operate businesses from ho...