Patricia G. Greene

• Babson College

This a review of the book Teaching Entrepreneurship: A Practice-Based Approach, published in 2014 that addresses the entrepreneurship theme, from the following author’s point of view: Heidi Neck, Patricia Greene and Candida Brush. Neck, Greene and Brush are professors at Babson College, a world reference in entrepreneurship, located in Massachusett...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief history of the evolution of the Diana Project and the Diana International Research Conference. The authors examine the impact of the publications, conferences and research contributions and consider key factors in the success of this collaborative research organization. They discuss the ongoin...

This paper explores whether human capital factors (education and perceived capabilities) or contextual factors (economic and political settings) explain differential start-up rates between men and women entrepreneurs, connecting data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) with the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap. Results show that th...

Financial capital is a critical resource for growing firms, yet women entrepreneurs received very small percent of the funding. This research updates earlier research by the Diana Project using a data base of all venture capital funded firms in the US. We compare funding in those firms led by men and women across stage, sector, state, region and ou...

The growing rate of ventures being started by women and the increased proportion of the small business population accounted for by women are highlighted. Questions are raised as to why this growth has not been accompanied by a parallel increase in scholarly work on women entrepreneurs. Some of th key findings regarding women as entrepreneurs are su...

The topic of minority entrepreneurship is of ever-increasing importance as more and more frequent questions and concerns about the legitimacy and accuracy of racial and ethnic categorizations are raised. Minority entrepreneurship remains a broad concept, the use of which is largely dependent on situation. The topic is also often intertwined with qu...

This paper examines the development and sustainable growth of university-based entrepreneurship ecosystems. General patterns emerge from the qualitative review of six detailed case studies that have evolved over a minimum of two decades: three located in the USA; and one each in Latin America, Europe and Asia. It is apparent that the development of...

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We explore three "worlds" that entrepreneurship educators generally teach in and introduce a new frontier where we discuss teaching entrepreneurship as a method. The method is a way of thinking and acting, built on a set of assumptions using a portfolio of techniques to create. It goes beyond understanding, knowing, and talking and requires using,...

Firm growth is widely considered to be a measure of success for entrepreneurial businesses. Data indicate that there are systematic differences between minority and nonminority-owned firms with respect to growth. Black entrepreneurs are 50 percent more likely to engage in start-up activities than white entrepreneurs, however, black-owned firms are...

'A book of this magnitude, usefulness and complexity can hardly be framed within one direction of contribution to entrepreneurship education, it is many voices, responses and pathways of academic institutions clustered in an admirable collection of university-based entrepreneurship ecosystems.' © Michael L. Fetters, Patricia G. Greene, Mark P. Rice...

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...

In the 14 years since the Society for Human Resource Management added sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination statement, many organizations, including a large majority of Fortune 500 companies, have become more accepting of gay and lesbian workers. However, both small and large organizations may not have decided if this diversity is a type they...

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 state of entrepreneurship has changed radically over the past 3 decades. Entrepreneurial approaches are now a regular part of most economic discussions, and entrepreneurs are recognized among business leaders around the world. The state of entrepreneurship education follows a similar pattern. Most schools now have at least one course in entrepr...

The Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED) is a national longitudinal sample of 64,622 U.S. households that were contacted to find individuals who were actively engaged in starting new businesses. The PSED includes information on: the proportion and characteristics of the adult population involved in attempts to start new businesses, the ki...

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...

The individual entrepreneur is considered from aresource-based perspective that focuses on the categories of human and socialresources.Following a review of the definition and historical study ofethnic entrepreneurship, the authors offer a number of propositions based ontheir original model of ethnic resources.One such proposition is thatentreprene...

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...

In the United States, the rate at which minorities create new businesses varies by specific populations. While large-scalenational data collection efforts, including the Survey of Minority Owned Businesses, have attempted to illuminate the phenomenon of minority entrepreneurship, they have revealed little about the startup process ofminority entrep...

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...

This article proposes that the term “ethnic entrepreneur” should be defined by the levels of personal involvement of the entrepreneur in the ethnic community instead of reported ethnic grouping. It hypothesizes that significant differences in personal and business characteristics will surface between the most community-involved and least community-...

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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...

Estratégias para obter vantagens competitivas enfatizam o desenvolvimento e a transformação dos recursos existentes em uma base de recursos única e de valor. Mas e se você ainda não tiver o legado das forças dos recursos? Empreendedores em organizações novas precisam, primeiramente, reunir recursos, para, então, combiná-los e construir uma platafor...

Literature from export development and international entrepreneurship argues that personal factors, or the owner/founder's human capital, strongly influence the choice and degree of internationalization in small firms. Personal factors include a wide array of dimensions, including achieved attributes, environmental perceptions and business skills,...

The Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics attempts to provide systematic, reliable data about the fundamental nature of the business start-up or entrepreneurial process. 830 nascent entrepreneurs were identified from a sample of 64,622 U.S. households, and their business startup activities were followed over a two-year period. This executive summ...

Since the early 1980s, new ventures with high growth potential and large capital needs have found an ever-increasing pool of venture capital available to support their growth. However, the flow of venture capital investment to women-led businesses remains meager in spite of the fact that in the US and Europe an increasing number of businesses are o...

The source of U.S. entrepreneurs and their contributions to the economic and social well-being of American society are issues that are being addressed in many quarters today. One approach emphasizes the role that immigrant and minority entrepreneurs play in this process. The stereotypical enterprises created by ethnic immigrants evoke certain image...

Previous research on the psychology of entrepreneurs found that personality traits such as locus of control failed to distinguish entrepreneurs from managers. In search of an individual characteristic that is distinctively entrepreneurial, we proposed an entrepreneurial self-efficacy construct (ESE) to predict the likelihood of an individual being...

Although the hypothesis that small firms create the majority of net new jobs is widely believed, a number of researchers have attacked this using empirical data. Since these attacks have been presented as corrections of past methodological errors, their authors may influence policy makers. This paper argues that the substance of these attacks is a...

This article analyzes the phenomenon of ethnic entrepreneurship using a resource-based approach focusing on community sponsorship as a sustained competitive advantage. The primary research questions are whether there is a distinct ethnic business creation process in which sponsorship plays a significant role and whether there are lessons to be lear...

Subsidiaries of multinational firms play an important role in the globalization of innovation, yet we have an incomplete idea of the influences on their innovative activity. Drawing on prior research in international business and strategy, we identify two sets of factors that influence the absorption and utilization of knowledge in multinational co...