Overview
- Offers a multiperspective view by combining scientific results with case study insights
- Provides entrepreneurship educators with strong material to integrate gendered aspects into their curricula
- Focuses on Europe as a context with its own unique characteristics
Part of the book series: FGF Studies in Small Business and Entrepreneurship (FGFS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Research Studies
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
This volume addresses the current challenges for and future prospects of women’s entrepreneurship research, bringing together a wealth of diverse insights with implications for research, education and practice alike.
Presenting theoretical and empirical research papers and case studies, the book not only offers a topical reference guide for entrepreneurship researchers and educators, but also provides essential reading material for students interested in questions addressing diverse aspects of the challenges to and future academic and practical prospects of women’s entrepreneurship.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stephanie Birkner is a Junior Professor of Female Entrepreneurship based at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. She focuses on gender aspects in (educational) approaches to foster innovation and entrepreneurship.
Kerstin Ettl is a Juniorprofessor of Entrepreneurial Diversity & SME Management at the University of Siegen, Germany. Women's entrepreneurship, embedded in the broader context of entrepreneurial diversity is one of her core areas of expertise.
Friederike Welter holds the chair of SME Management & Entrepreneurship at the University of Siegen, Germany, and is the President of the Institut für Mittelstandsforschung in Bonn, Germany (IfM Bonn). She is committed to theoretically grounded and practice-oriented research and teaching in the area of SME development and entrepreneurship.
Ilona Ebbers is Head of the Department of Economics and its Didactics at the European University of Flensburg, Germany. Her research addresses perspectives of entrepreneurship education with a central focus on gender as a didactic category.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women's Entrepreneurship in Europe
Book Subtitle: Multidimensional Research and Case Study Insights
Editors: Stephanie Birkner, Kerstin Ettl, Friederike Welter, Ilona Ebbers
Series Title: FGF Studies in Small Business and Entrepreneurship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96373-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96372-3Published: 02 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07182-0Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96373-0Published: 21 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2364-6918
Series E-ISSN: 2364-6926
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 215
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Women's Studies, Development and Gender