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Introduction
Elizabeth Gatewood is a Research Professor at Wake Forest University.
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July 2004 - July 2010
July 1998 - July 2004
July 1989 - July 1998
Education
September 1980 - December 1986
September 1975 - May 1978
June 1965 - December 1969
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Publications (53)
Women's Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century is the fourth in the series of books emanating from the DIANA International Research Network. The volume takes a multi-dimensional approach to coalesce a series of chapters around the central theme: gender and entrepreneurship today and in the future. The chapters span a diverse range of countries, metho...
Purpose
– In this paper, the authors aim to develop a framework that provides a holistic approach to the assessment of entrepreneurial performance outcomes (EPOs) incorporating the multitude of factors (such as entrepreneurial goals and cultural norms) that research suggests can impact the entrepreneurial process.
Design/methodology/approach
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Why You Should Consider External Assistance ProgramsExternal Assistance Available Nationwide to Anyone in the United StatesSelling to the Government: The Art of ProcurementSelling Abroad: International Business in the Global VillageExternal Assistance for Special Groups, Locations, and IndustriesSummaryNotes
This Handbook brings together in one volume a collection of essays that explore the current state of the art of university-wide entrepreneurship education programs. Twenty-nine authors from different disciplines in universities in five countries discuss the opportunities and universal challenges in extending entrepreneurship education outside the b...
Social entrepreneurship has become an important academic concept with more and more universities and centers of higher education offering courses and programs relating to social entrepreneurship. This workshop will discuss the need, demand, and format for social entrepreneurship curriculum and centers, and discuss a center model(s) for colleges and...
Women's entrepreneurship research and the understanding of factors influencing the growth of women-owned business have advanced significantly over the last decade. Yet, challenges remain. Women Entrepreneurs and the Global Environment for Growth provides wide-ranging insights on the challenges that women entrepreneurs face growing their businesses...
After a period of downtown retail decline, entrepreneurial activity was initiated in a small, southern, rural community. A decline in the agricultural base of the region spurred public sector decision makers to find funding to encourage enterprise creation and expansion. This paper examines the disruptive effects of a public/private effort to intro...
This article discusses the questions and issues that prompted the founding of the Diana Project, a multi-university research
program aimed at identifying factors that support and enable high growth in women-led ventures. Despite the fact that women
business owners comprise a significant portion of the economy, women face challenges in acquiring the...
This report from the Diana Project explores the extent of equity investments in women-owned businesses. Surveyed were 1,700 applicants to the 2000 Springboard forums to examine the current state of venture capital for women entrepreneurs interested in, and capable of, high growth venturing, in hopes of debunking myths about women and venture capita...
The number of women entrepreneurs is rising rapidly and many are creating substantial businesses. For most women-led ventures, growth is funded by personal investment and debt, although a small percentage draw on private equity investment to fuel high growth. Of those that seek growth, not only do they face higher obstacles in obtaining capital, bu...
'The data and information presented in this work will be of particular interest to students and scholars of entrepreneurship or labor and women's studies. Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate through professional collections.' - E.P. Hoffman, Choice Enterprising new firms drive economic growth, and women around the world are i...
Women have received a disproportionately low share of available venture capital in the United States. This study provides the first overview of women decision makers in the venture capital industry. Data from Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources for 1995 and 2000 was analyzed to identify the numbers and characteristics of women in management po...
Women Building High-Growth Businesses “Even in the 21st century, much of the world still systematically excludes 50 percent of the smartest people from full responsibility. Entrepreneurship rewards excellence and results, not gender, and this book is a wonderful gift to women who would like to respond to corporate America by saying, 'Thanks, I'll d...
Diana was a heroic woman, a huntress. Women seeking capital are hunters rather than gatherers. They are hunting for capital in a traditionally male dominated arena. Women's participation in entrepreneurship is vital to the growth of the U.S. economy. It is not surprising, then, that breaking down gender barriers and facilitating the start-up and de...
This paper explores the reasons that nascent entrepreneurs offered for their work and career choices and compares those responses to the reasons given by a group of nonentrepreneurs. Six separate factors accounted for 68% of the variance: self-realization, financial success, roles, innovation, recognition, and independence. The factor scores of nas...
This is one of the first efforts to systematically study attributes of women business owners and their equity financing strategies. The study explored the factors associated with the use of equity capital in women led firms. Hypotheses examined the influence of human and social capital on the likelihood of seeking equity funding, access to funding...
Research to date has not adequately explained the role that expectancy of entrepreneurial performance based on perceived ability plays in motivating persons to persevere on an entrepreneurial task. This study investigated the entrepreneurial expectancy, effort-performance linkage via a World Wide Web–based experiment involving 179 undergraduate bus...
Equity capital fuels growth companies and yields high returns for investors. The process of equity investment and ultimate harvesting of innovative companies has created significant wealth among fund investors, venture capitalists, angels and new entrepreneurs. Extensive research investigates all phases of the venture capital investment process, in...
In order to determine if existing programs forentrepreneurs are effective in meeting the needs of rural entrepreneurs, or ifspecial rural programs are needed, the performance of a national program inrural versus urban states is compared.It was assumed that greaterefficiency and effectiveness would be seen in states with higher urbanpopulations. Que...
The use of attribution theory as a framework and methodology is described (in comparison with more traditional qualitative methods) for evaluating the responses of nascent entrepreneurs and explaining the choices they make when they become involved in business startup activities. A theoretical background for attributional coding is used to describe...
The University of Houston (UH) small business development centers (SBDCs) were analyzed by data envelopment analysis (DEA) and assurance region (AR) methods. The DEA/AR analyses were made for 11 DMUs in 1990 and 1991 and for 13 DMUs in 1992. The DEA ratio (CCR) method was applied to Model I in all three years; unique optimal solutions to the DEA-in...
Explores whether specific cognitive attributes of potential entrepreneurs can be used to predict future startup success and persistence in business startup activities. Two hypotheses are proposed and tested: (1) potential entrepreneurs who offer internal and stable explanations (attributions) for their plans for getting into business should be more...
The editors of this special issue on "Finding the Entrepreneur in Entrepreneurship" offer an overview of the concept behind the special issue, and summarize the articles included in the special issue.
This article uses expectancy theory as a framework for explaining how public sector venture assistance organizations affect venture creation. Public sector venture assistance organizations can positively Influence venture creation through improving the entrepreneur's skills, abilities, and access to required resources. But they can also have a nega...
One indication of progress in the field of entrepreneurship is its growing number of research centers. Their potential to hasten and guide the field's development warrants scholars’ attention to their role in entrepreneurship research. We report the results of a survey of entrepreneurship research centers conducted in 1988. Twenty-nine centers prov...
Small business incubators are spreading rapidly across the US and Western Europe. The newness of the incubator concept and the pace at which new incubators are being brought on-line suggest that incubators are presendy undergoing a critical period of evolution in function, form, and purpose. This paper provides, via a Delphi survey of US incubator...
A sure-fire way to hasten economic decline is to let government start legislating the affairs of business. It makes good sense for government and business to cooperate in creating a favorable economic environment, one that deters plant closings or at least softens the blow. But it makes no sense at all to implement plant-closing legislation or a na...
A school-based business program in Georgia is attempting to broaden the education of high school students by making them more aware of the role of small business in the United States economy and the economic possibilities offered by entrepreneurship. Goals of school-based businesses are to create profit-making enterprises that meet unfilled needs o...
This paper describes the events associated with the recent withdrawal by the Procter & Gamble Corporation of Rely brand tampons after they had been linked with the disease known as toxic shock syndrome by the Center for Disease Control. Procter & Gamble's social response pattern is then compared with (1) a number of social response strategies that...
Until the last decade, scholars of entrepreneurship focused on the for-profit or commercial model of entrepreneurship, providing a framework for analysis of the process of entrepreneurial development. More recently, entrepreneurship researchers have recognized another form of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and have begun to turn attenti...
