The financing of small business : a comparative study of male and female business owners / / Lauren Read

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783820103321
• Autore: Read Lauren <1971, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• ISBN: 1-134-70094-6; 1-134-70095-4; 1-280-33694-3; 0-203-26960-8; 0-203-02494-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Small Business
• Disciplina: 658.15/92
• Soggetti: Small business - Finance; Business enterprises - Finance
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.202-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; The growth and characteristics of female entrepreneurship; Explaining the growth of female entrepreneurship; The problems faced by female entrepreneurs; Summary, research rationale and overview; The financing of women-owned businesses: an empirical overview and theoretical framework; The financing of women-owned businesses: a theoretical framework; Explaining the problems faced in the financing of women-owned businesses: a contextual approach; Conclusion and research agenda; Research into the financing of women-owned businesses: methodological considerations The financing of women-owned businesses in the UK: research method; Data collection: practical and conceptual difficulties; Sample overview; Summary and conclusion; Raising finance: the use of and attitudes towards sources of small business finance; The characteristics of small business finance; Explaining the reliance on internal sources of finance; Raising bank finance: an in-depth analysis; Conclusion; The characteristics of the banking relationship; The small business-banking relationship: an ; overview; The use of banks The banking relationship; Conclusion; The role of networking in the financing of male and female-owned businesses; Networking behaviour and the size of small business networks; Network profiles; Conclusion; Conclusions, implications and an agenda for future research; Research implications; Limitations and an agenda for future research; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.