Open AccessKnowledge and female entrepreneurship: A competence and social dimension
Author(s) -
Ma Belén García-Palma,
Ma Isabel Sánchez-Mora Molina
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
suma de negocios
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2215-910X
pISSN - 2027-5692
DOI - 10.1016/j.sumneg.2015.12.005
Subject(s) - humanities , competence (human resources) , sociology , dimension (graph theory) , entrepreneurship , factorial analysis , psychology , political science , mathematics , philosophy , social psychology , combinatorics , law , statistics
This paper, the result of a broader research on female entrepreneurship, aims to analyze the competence dimension of knowledge on women entrepreneurs. The method used is qualitative, comparatively analyzing the speech and enterprising entrepreneurs develop knowledge about and taking these as a constitutive dimension of competencies, while a construction linked to processes and social structures. To this end, a descriptive analysis and a sociological analysis level were conducted, trying to identify whether there are specific features in such dimension on female entrepreneurs. The results show that a particular construction of knowledge in women entrepreneurs, whose justification would be given by the educational level and starting the process of building knowledge and learning process thereof may occur