The Financing of Small Business - A Comparative Study of Male and Female Small Business Owners

A detailed empirical study of how small business owners finance their enterprises, this volume compares the experiences of women with those of men. The author redresses an over-reliance on subjective and anecdotal evidence of discrimination in this area with a controlled study of forty matched pairs of male/female owners and their strategies for raising finances. The research reveals the importance of adopting a theoretical framework in which the role of gender in the financing of small businesses is considered, and the practical implications for female entrepreneurs, banks and policy-makers.

List of contents

1 The growth and characteristics of female entrepreneurship 2 The financing of women-owned businesses: an empirical overview and theoretical framework 3 Research into the financing of women-owned businesses: methodological considerations 4 Raising finance: the use of and attitudes towards sources of small business finance 5 The characteristics of the banking relationship 6 The role of networking in the financing of male and female-owned businesses 7 Conclusions, implications and an agenda for future research

About the author

Lauren Read studied for her Ph.D. at the University of Southampton. She is currently a senior policy advisor at the Confederation of British Industry, responsible for small firms policy in the SME Unit.

Summary

A detailed empirical study of how small business owners finance their enterprises, this volume compares the experiences of women with those of men. The author redresses an over-reliance on subjective and anecdotal evidence of discrimination in this area with a controlled study of forty matched pairs of male/female owners and their strategies for raising finances. The research reveals the importance of adopting a theoretical framework in which the role of gender in the financing of small businesses is considered, and the practical implications for female entrepreneurs, banks and policy-makers.

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Helena Read, Read Lauren Helena
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.1998
• EAN: 9780415169561
• ISBN: 978-0-415-16956-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 17 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 620 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Small businesses & self-employed, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate Finance / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Budgeting, Corporate Finance, Gender studies, gender groups, Small businesses and self-employment, Budgeting & financial management, Budgeting and financial management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Freelance & Self-Employment