 Failure Rates for Female‐Controlled Businesses: Are They Any Different?John Watson Journal of Small Business Management, 2003, vol. 41, issue 3, 262-277 Abstract: Previous research has found that female‐owned businesses generally underperform male‐owned businesses on a variety of measures such as revenue, profit, growth, and discontinuance (failure) rates. It has been suggested that this finding might be the result of systematic differences between male‐ and female‐owned businesses, particularly industry differences. This paper analyzes data from a representative sample of 8,375 small and medium‐sized Australian enterprises that originally were surveyed in 1994–95, with follow‐up surveys in each of the subsequent three years for a subsample of businesses. The aim was to determine whether female‐owned businesses exhibit higher failure rates than male‐owned businesses and, if so, whether this finding persists after controlling for industry differences. The results suggest that while female‐owned businesses do have higher failure rates compared to male‐owned businesses, the difference is not significant after controlling for the effects of industry. Date: 2003 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:ujbmxx:v:41:y:2003:i:3:p:262-277 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Journal of Small Business Management is currently edited by Eric Liguori More articles in Journal of Small Business Management from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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