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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Read, Lauren, 1971-

Series:

Routledge Studies in Small Business

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Small business--Finance.

Small business.

Business enterprises--Finance.

Business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p.202-224) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-70094-6

1-134-70095-4

1-280-33694-3

0-203-26960-8

0-203-02494-X

9780203024942

OCLC:

277861048