Open AccessAbilities and skills as factors explaining the differences in women entrepreneurship
Author(s) -
Salvador Manzanera-Román,
Gaspar Brändle
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.2016.02.001
Subject(s) - entrepreneurship , competence (human resources) , humanities , typology , psychology , creativity , sociology , pedagogy , social psychology , political science , art , anthropology , law
This study takes part of the project Women and entrepreneurship from a competence perspective and aims to investigate the role of skills and abilities in explaining the women entrepreneurship. In this sense, it works on the idea that women entrepreneurs have specific competences, understood as the sum of skills and abilities, that characterize and determine the type of female entrepreneurship (typology, sector, size, innovation, creativity). Methodologically, it worked from a qualitative approach, supported by conducting semi-structured interviews of men and women from different socio-economic and business profiles. From an inductive and interpretive discursive analysis, it can be concluded that businessmen and businesswomen agree to grant several skills and abilities to women entrepreneurs, although there are significant differences between the perceptions of women and men, subsisting some gender stereotypes in defining the profile of women entrepreneurs