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Female entrepreneurship and its contribution to job creation, innovation, and economic prosperity have attracted increasing interest in policy, theory, and practice over the last decade. This chapter reviews the extant literature on female entrepreneurship. It summarizes key research findings on female entrepreneurial activity, the contribution of women’s ventures to economic development, and the barriers to female entrepreneurship along the gender-aware and context-dependent 5 M framework: market, money, management, motherhood, and meso/macro environment, from a resource- and institutional-based view. This chapter concludes with recommendations for future avenues of research.
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Espinoza Trujano, J., Welter, F. (2022). Female Entrepreneurship. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_336-1
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