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Journal articles on the topic "Women-owned firms"

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Mijid, Naranchimeg. "Dynamics of female-owned smallest businesses in the USA." International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship 9, no. 2 (June 12, 2017): 157–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijge-10-2016-0041.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to answer whether the female-owned smallest firms differ from their male-owned counterparts in terms of their success and performances; if so, whether it affects banks’ loan approval decisions. Design/methodology/approach The study uses the Kauffman Firm Survey – the largest and longest longitudinal data which contain 4,928 new firms that started their business in the USA in 2004. The authors use two measures of median asset values to classify firms into smallest firm category. They use multiply imputed logit estimates to predict the probability of loan approval in each category. Findings The results show that female-owned smallest firms have significantly lower rate of loan approval. In addition, the study finds minority women owners face double burden. However, married women have significantly higher probability of loan approval. The authors’ results are robust. Research limitations/implications From a public policy perspective, providing equal access to credit to women business owners, especially unmarried and/or minority women, may solve the puzzle why female-owned firms are so small. Originality/value Although many studies examined why businesses owned by women are typically smaller compared to men-owned firms, there exist limited studies on female-owned smallest firms and why they stay smaller. This study fills the gap in the literature by examining female-owned smallest businesses.
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Gundry, Lisa, Jill Kickul, Harold P. Welsch, and Margaret Posig. "Technological Innovation in Women-Owned Firms." International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 4, no. 4 (November 2003): 265–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000003129574324.

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This study seeks to determine the influence of the underlying factors that facilitate the growth and implementation of new technologies within women-owned businesses. In the proposed model, market growth mediates the relationship between the individual antecedents (entrepreneurial intensity and opportunity costs) and technological change. Using the two-step approach for measurement analysis and structural equation modelling, results revealed that the process by which women entrepreneurs implement new technological changes is influenced by their decision to expand the business. Entrepreneurial intensity and the entrepreneur's willingness to incur opportunity costs were key motivating factors that compelled the entrepreneur to seek new growth strategies. Implications for research and practice related to ways in which entrepreneurs' strategic focus can enable technological innovations are discussed.
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Abbasian, Saeid, and Darush Yazdanfar. "Exploring the financing gap between native born women‐ and immigrant women‐owned firms at the start‐up stage." International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship 5, no. 2 (June 20, 2013): 157–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17566261311328837.

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PurposeThe main purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence which identifies the impact of ethnicity and other relevant variables on external capital acquisition among Swedish women‐owned businesses at start‐up.Design/methodology/approachSeveral methods have been employed to analyze the sample including a binary logistic regression model. The sample consists of 836 women‐owned businesses in southeast Sweden; 97 immigrant‐owned, 739 native born‐owned.FindingsThe results indicate that there are partly significant differences between native women‐owned firms and immigrant woman‐owned businesses at start‐up. Unlike the native‐owned firms, the immigrant woman‐owned businesses rely more on loans from family members and less on bank loans.Practical implicationsThe results reveal that age has a positive impact on loans from family members, while the additional job outside one's own business, the amount of the owner's personal start‐up capital and firm size positively influenced access to capital from banks. The owners' level of education, previous business experience, the legal form taken by the firm and the industry affiliation conversely played no significant role in explaining the women owners' attitudes toward loans from either friends or the bank.Originality/valueTo the authors' knowledge, this study is the first empirical investigation addressing this issue in the Swedish context.
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Mari, Michela, Sara Poggesi, and Luisa De Vita. "Family embeddedness and business performance: evidences from women-owned firms." Management Decision 54, no. 2 (March 21, 2016): 476–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/md-07-2014-0453.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the family context may affect female firms’ performance by contextualising the study within Italy and empirically analysing 307 Italian women-owned firms. Design/methodology/approach – By using ordinal regressions, this paper empirically investigates the influence of three dimensions of the family context on female firms’ performance, namely: the motivations to start a business; the support from the family once the business is established; and the mechanisms to achieve a suitable balance between work and family life. Findings – Overall, the results offer substantial support for the assumption that female business owners benefit from being pulled into the endeavour, from specific linkages with family and also from selected mechanisms to balance work and family life, thus contributing to show how strong the relationship between a firm’s performance and the family context is for women. Originality/value – Today female entrepreneurship represents an important economic driver worldwide, leading scholars to strongly advocate the need to shift the female entrepreneurship research focus from the analysis of women business owners’ characteristics to the investigation of those specific factors able to directly affect female firms’ activities. In this vein, this paper aims at pushing further into the still less studied domain of work/family intertwinement as, surprisingly, the impact that family-related factors exert on women-owned businesses’ performance is still under-researched.
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Gundry, Lisa K., and Harold P. Welsch. "Differences in Familial Influence Among Women-Owned Businesses." Family Business Review 7, no. 3 (September 1994): 273–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6248.1994.00273.x.

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This study identifies groups of women entrepreneurs who were subject to varying degrees of family influence. The term family intensity was derived to characterize those firms that had family investors and family members employed in the business. Eight hundred thirty-two women business owners were sampled, representing a wide variety of industrial sectors. The findings suggest that family intensity plays a significant role in strategic planning and degree of involvement in the business. Family-intense firms were more likely to engage in growth and expansion planning and to report greater sales performance. Furthermore, the results suggest that family intensity affects careerism and ownership issues confronting the woman entrepreneur.
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Bui, MinhTam, and Trinh Q. Long. "Women’s Economic Empowerment in Vietnam: Performance and Constraints of Female-Led Manufacturing SMEs." Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14, no. 6 (June 7, 2021): 255. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm14060255.

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This paper identifies whether there was a performance difference among micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) led by men and by women in Vietnam during the period 2005–2013 and aims to provide explanations for the differences, if any, in various performance indicators. The paper adopts a quantitative approach using a firm-level panel dataset in the manufacturing sector in 10 provinces/cities in Vietnam in five waves from 2005 to 2013. Fixed effect models are estimated to examine the influence of firm variables and demographic, human capital characteristics of owners/managers on firms’ value added, labor productivity and employment creation. We found that men led MSMEs did not outperform those led by women on average. Although the average value added was lower for female-led firms in the informal sector, the opposite was true in the formal sector where women tend to lead medium-size firms with higher value added and labor productivity. The performance disparity was more envisaged across levels of formality and less clear from a gender perspective. Moreover, while firms owned by businessmen seemed to create more jobs, firms owned by women had a higher share of female employees. No significant difference in business constraints faced by women and by men was found.
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Dumas, Colette. "Women's Pathways to Participation and Leadership in the Family-Owned Firm." Family Business Review 11, no. 3 (September 1998): 219–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6248.1998.00219.x.

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A study of 702 women in family-owned firms in Canada has identified paths to participation and leadership taken by women in family-owned firms. Some of the key factors contributing to participation and leadership are presented in a descriptive framework. Implications of this study for practice and research are presented.
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Yusof, Selamah Abdullah, and Mohd Nahar Mohd Arshad. "Estimations of business exposure to corruption in Malaysia." Journal of Financial Crime 27, no. 4 (July 1, 2020): 1273–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfc-04-2020-0058.

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Purpose This study aims to investigate the level of business exposure to corruption in Malaysia. The authors estimate the effect of bribe requests from business establishments by public officials and identify the level of vulnerability of businesses to such requests. Design/methodology/approach This study uses firm-level data from the World Bank Malaysia Enterprise Survey 2014. The analyses are based on binary logit, tobit and generalized ordered logit regressions. Findings The authors find that one-fifth of firms applying for construction permits or had visits or meetings with tax officials were expected to pay bribes. Firms’ encounters with corruption were higher still when applying for import (29%) or operating license (24.7%). About 40% of the firms considered corruption an obstacle to their business operations to the degree of moderate, major and even severe. On average, 11% of firms’ total annual sales were apportioned for informal gifts or “speed money.” The authors also find that larger, younger and women-managed/owned companies were more likely to be targeted for bribe payments. The amount of bribe paid by foreign-owned firms was higher than the local firms. Manufacturing firms had lower incidences of bribe requests, but the amount paid was higher than services-related companies. Firms run or owned by women also, on average, paid a higher amount bribe. Social implications These findings should be taken into consideration in the efforts to eradicate corruption affecting businesses in Malaysia. Originality/value This study is unique in the sense that it is based on firm-level data for a Malaysian case.
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NEELEY, LYNN, and HOWARD VAN AUKEN. "DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FEMALE AND MALE ENTREPRENEURS' USE OF BOOTSTRAP FINANCING." Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 15, no. 01 (March 2010): 19–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1084946710001439.

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Women-owned businesses are increasingly important to the U.S. economy in terms of numbers of firms owned, revenues and employment. Despite the growing role of female-owned business, the ownership, growth and size of female-owned firms is lower than that of male-owned firms. Differences in access to capital have been one reason attributed as an obstacle to women launching and growing small firms. This paper presents the results of an empirical study that examines differences of the use of bootstrap financing between female- and male-owned small firms. Research on the use of bootstrap financing among small firms is limited. The findings show that bootstrap finance methods were similar among female- and male-owned small firms; however, differences were found relative to age, education, sales and overdraft privileges. The results have implications for female entrepreneurs, support persons or agencies and government agencies providing assistance. Female owners should become more informed about financing options available beyond the traditional sources of capital. During periods of declining sales, especially during recessionary periods, female owners may rely on bootstrap sources to supplement capital needs, as well as proactively developing contingency plans for accessing bootstrap capital. These policies could be incorporated into training programs for female business owners. Educators and consultants could help female owners better understand financing alternatives and the importance if developing contingency plans. Government policy may be able to alleviate capital shortages through programs that better inform female entrepreneurs about the capital acquisition process.
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Ali Jafri, Syed Khurram, and Wafa Khurram. "Distinction or Discrimination?A Qualitative Study of Sustainable growth of Women-Owned Technology based SMEs in Malaysia." International Journal on Perceptive and Cognitive Computing 5, no. 2 (December 15, 2019): 6–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.31436/ijpcc.v5i2.122.

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Technopreneurship development and its significance in economic growth has led world’s economies to identify the potential role of growth-oriented women-owned technology based SMEs for economic gains. The existing literature on growth among women owned firms, however, exclusively elucidates dearth of empirical research of this phenomenon particularly in transitional economies. This qualitative study is an attempt to reveal the most significant factors that influence the sustainable growth of women owned technology SMEs in Malaysia. The findings from semi-structured interviews from policy makers explain that sustainable growth among these women owned technology based SMEs appears to be entwined in both personal factors related to distinctiveness of these firms as well as external factors associated with socio-cultural discrimination. Several practical and managerial implications have been provided to enlighten policy makers and women technopreneurs on one hand and enhance theoretical knowledge of researchers in the field of technology, innovation and gender.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Women-owned firms"

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Hanna, Bronwyn Planning UNSW. "Absence and presence: a historiography of early women architects in New South Wales." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Planning, 2000. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/18217.

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Women architects are effectively absent from architectural history in Australia. Consulting first the archival record, this thesis establishes the presence of 230 women architects qualified and/or practising in NSW between 1900 and 1960. It then analyses some of these early women architects' achievements and difficulties in the profession, drawing on interviews with 70 practitioners or their friends and family. Finally it offers brief biographical accounts of eight leading early women architects, arguing that their achievements deserve more widespread historical attention in an adjusted canon of architectural merit. There are also 152 illustrations evidencing their design contributions. Thus the research draws on quantitative, qualitative, biographical and visual modes of representation in establishing a historical presence for these early women architects. The thesis forms part of the widespread political project of feminist historical recovery of women forebears, while also interrogating the ends and means of such historiography. The various threads describing women's absence and presence in the architectural profession are woven together throughout the thesis using three feminist approaches which sometimes harmonise and sometimes debate with each other. Described as "liberal feminism", "socialist feminism" and "postmodern feminism", they each put into play distinct patterns of questioning, method and interpretation, but all analyse historiography as a strategy for understanding society and effecting social change.
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Lipkins, Lisa. "Strategies Used by African American Women to Secure Financial Capital to Start New Businesses." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7936.

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Women-owned businesses continue to drive economic growth in the United States. However, some African American businesswomen lack strategies to obtain capital to start their business. Strategies to obtain funds for a startup is vital to African American women seeking to start and sustain their businesses. Guided by entrepreneurial theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies African American women use to secure financial capital to start new businesses. The participants included 6 African American women business owners in Atlanta, Georgia, with successful experience in utilizing strategies to secure financial capital to start new businesses. Data were collected from semistructured interviews and company documents. Yin's 5-step analysis was used to analyze the data. The main themes were challenges of being an African American business woman, motivating factors leading to business ownership, and overcoming bank financing challenges. The implications for positive social change may include addressing the disparity of social, human, and financial capital to start new businesses among African American women.
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Hanna, Bronwyn J. "Absence and presence : a historiography of early women architects in New South Wales /." 1999. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN2000.0006/index.html.

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Piper, Christine. "The impact of certification on women-owned construction firms in the United States." 2007. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/46352.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of certification on women-owned construction companies in the United States. The primary objectives were to determine if certification has impacted accessibility to public (government) and private construction work as well as the financial performance of women-owned construction firms. The secondary research objectives were to determine what challenges these firms have encountered during the certification process and their perception of it.
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Sapa, Amarech Bekalo. "The impact of microfinance in the development of micro and small enterprise owned by women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26019.

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Poor people benefit from microfinance and positively improve their poverty and socio-economic conditions. Microfinance support serves as development tool to redress the exclusion of the poor from the development process and outcomes in the mainstream intervention frameworks. As developing countries and poverty context are diverse and contextual, comprehensive knowledge about and empirical evidence on the impact of microfinance is scant. Specifically, the impact of microfinance services on the development of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) owned by women is scant. The findings of available studies and policy practice reports on microfinance in Ethiopia are not holistic in terms of a theoretical lens and methodological pluralism. Available studies do not consider the impact of microfinance and non-financial services on women-owned MSEs at household, individual and enterprise levels thereby reducing the poverty context and holistic empowerment at these levels. This study used multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks: Hulme’s (2000, p. 79 - 81) microfinance impact assessment tool, debates on survivalist and growth-orientation perspectives of MSEs (Harvie, 2003, p. 27; Snodgrass & Biggs, 1996, p. 43; Hallberg, 2001, p. 19; Nichter & Goldmark, 2005, p. 67), women empowerment continuum model of interpretation (Filmon, 2009, p. 87) and policy practice at the epicenter of governance and policy decision-making (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital). The assessment considered three elements of microfinance impact assessment, generating primary evidence from 120 micro and small business owners (women entrepreneurs) whose firms stayed two years and above in the market and as clients of selected microfinance institutions. The clients considered were those who accessed at least two loan cycles and above. The respondents were randomly selected from three randomly selected microfinance institutions and a survey questionnaire was administered. The data sets were analysed using multiple tests (non-parametric statistical tests such as Pearson Correlation, Paired-Sample, Chi-Square, Wilcoxon Rank and McNemar tests) as well as parametric tests were conducted using logit econometric model. These tests were conducted to determine statistical difference of microfinance services after program intervention and the contribution of total loans taken on expenditure and businesses investment. The results indicated both developmental or survivalist firms. The result also indicated the empowerment of the women (MSEs owners). A significant number of women entrepreneurs owning MSEs improved their living house, cash savings, household income, child education, household health, household food and diet, business investment, and decision making status in their households. In terms of policy support, the study identified that there were specific affirmative interventions (as stipulated in the policy documents) to support women entrepreneurs owning MSEs in terms of targeted financial service, provision of working and selling premises, designing and implementing training and skill development programs, market networking and tax support on their products and sales. The study recommends that different institutions that work on women empowerment and women associations have to design women focused affirmative policy and strategy interventions to scale-up the positive results (growth-orientation of the MSEs) and address the bottlenecks that limit women entrepreneurs who own MSEs from accessing services that can transform the survivalist MSEs to profitable and empowering businesses for women. The recommendations are proposed to link women empowerment with working policy support.
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Books on the topic "Women-owned firms"

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Center for Women's Business Research. The leading edge: Women-owned million-dollar firms. Washington, DC: Center for Women's Business Research, 2004.

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author, Robb Alicia M., ed. A rising tide: Financing strategies for women-owned firms. Stanford, California: Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2012.

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State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome. Small Business Development Center. Planning your construction firm: A planning guide for women and minority owned construction firms in New York State. Utica, N.Y: the Center, 1990.

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Bell, Linda A. Women-led firms and the gender gap in top executive jobs. Bonn, Germany: IZA, 2005.

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Owners, National Foundation for Women Business. Entrepreneurial vision in action: Exploring growth among women- and men-owned firms. Washington, D.C: National Foundation for Women Business Owners, 2001.

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Road to independence: 101 women's journeys to starting their own law firms. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2011.

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Exporting, importing, and e-commerce, 2001: A how to guide for minority, immigrant, and women-owned firms. Washington, D.C: AASBEA Books, 2001.

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California. Legislature. Joint Committee on Public Pension Fund Investments. AB 1933 (M. Waters): Statewide participation goals for minority and women owned firms--compliance by state trust funds : Sacramento, California, August 30, 1989. [Sacramento, Calif.]: The Joint Committee, 1989.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Problems facing minority and women-owned small businesses, including SBA section 8(A) firms, in procuring U.S. government contracts: An interim report : twenty-third report. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1994.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Problems facing minority and women-owned small businesses, including SBA section 8(A) firms, in procuring U.S. government contracts: An interim report : twenty-third report. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Women-owned firms"

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Brush, Candida, and Robert D. Hisrich. "Women-Owned Businesses: Why do They Matter?" In Are Small Firms Important? Their Role and Impact, 111–27. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5173-7_7.

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Lerman, Robert, Caroline Ratcliffe, Harold Salzman, Douglas Wissoker, and Jennifer Meagher. "Does the Digital Divide Extend to Minority- and Women- Owned Small Businesses?" In Digital Literacy, 1489–509. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1852-7.ch079.

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This chapter examines whether the digital divide in the United States extends to computer use in small businesses. The analysis is based on a 2003 telephone survey of 1,123 firms with fewer than 50 employees and at least one computer, and in-depth interviews with 45 business owners. The analysis provides no evidence of a business digital divide across racial, ethnic, and gender groups. In fact, firms owned by African-American males show more intensive computer use than white male-owned firms, even after controlling for firm and owner characteristics. We do, however, find links between the intensity of computer use and firm and owner characteristics, such as firm size, market reach, intensity of computer use in the relevant industry, and age of owner. Finally, the in-depth interviews suggest that businesses with effective computer use depend upon the technical expertise of the business owners or people in their social networks.
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Coleman, Susan, and Alicia Robb. "Financing high-growth women-owned firms in the United States." In The Routledge Companion to Global Female Entrepreneurship, 132–52. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315794570-9.

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Young, Dale. "A Framework for Addressing Minority Suppliers as an E-Business Strategy." In Strategies for Generating E-Business Returns on Investment, 143–62. IGI Global, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-417-0.ch007.

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Financial returns from a corporate website are improved by broadening the site’s audience to include minority (e.g., small and women-owned) suppliers. Firms believe that it is good for business if their supplier base has the same racial and gender composition as their customer base. This chapter directly addresses supply chain relationships, diverse suppliers, and investment returns by examining how large corporations use their public websites to communicate with small, minority-owned and women-owned trading partners. The chapter is based on findings from a large-scale study of corporate, public websites. The researcher visited all of the public websites of the Fortune 500 to understand Web-based supplier communications, and analyze how large firms use their public website to communicate with minority suppliers.
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Etim, Ernest. "The Use of Digital Technologies for Enhancing Female-Owned Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises in Southern Nigeria." In Overcoming Challenges and Barriers for Women in Business and Education, 45–64. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3814-2.ch003.

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The empowerment of women through quality education and wage employment has added to income generation for them and their families. Some women become entrepreneurs in the absence of meaningful wage employment, or where formal employments are seasonal, erratic, and not able to support the family. In Sub-Saharan Africa, women who are self-employed are growing exponentially. Globally, women-owned enterprises contribute nominally to total business revenues in most economies, suggesting that on average they are smaller in size and have lower market capitalization. Recently, businesses are migrating online, with entrepreneurs leveraging on digital platforms. This chapter investigates how social media can enhance business operations for women-owned firms, thus mitigating a number of these constraints. A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to 73 respondents; data were analyzed with SPSS (vs. 25). The results showed that some constraints experienced by female entrepreneurs were impacted positively with the use of digital technologies.
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Peterson, Robert A., and David Altounian. "Self-perceived Performance of Female-owned Firms and Male-owned Firms: Insights from Black and Mexican-American Entrepreneurs." In Go-to-Market Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs, 95–105. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-289-420191014.

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Holt, Svetlana, Joan Marques, and Angelo A. Camillo. "To Russia with Love." In Handbook of Research on Effective Marketing in Contemporary Globalism, 137–45. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6220-9.ch008.

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Clarwen is a small privately owned company based in southern California, USA. It designs, manufactures, and markets custom-made luxury accessories for men and women. The company is considering pursuing international expansion—primarily into Russia but also into the European and/or Chinese markets—in order to directly increase its revenues by adding potential new customers for its current products. Preliminary market analyses indicate that non-domestic customers are willing and able to buy Clarwen's products. Cultural factors, as well as the need for innovation, are key to Clarwen's expansion strategy. Additionally, an internal environmental scan reveals that the firm's current capabilities are limited, both in terms of production and distribution. Taking into consideration intellectual property and financial risks inherent in going international, especially for a small company, devising an appropriate entry strategy and executing it flawlessly becomes a matter of vital importance. This case examines the socio-economic factors involved in determining what entry mode Clarwen should choose: agents/distributors, franchising, direct marketing, or joint ventures in its attempts to penetrate these markets. Distribution and sales channels, selling factors and techniques, pricing, promotion and advertising, and customer support issues are considered as well.
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Conference papers on the topic "Women-owned firms"

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Jomaraty, Mosfeka, and Jerry Courvisanous. "Growth process of small and medium-sized manufacturing in developing countries: A study of women-owned firms in Bangladesh." In 3rd Annual International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IE 2013). Global Science and Technology Forum Pte Ltd, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-2038_ie13.39.

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