Gender gaps and reentry into entrepreneurial ecosystems after business failure

Sharon A. Simmons (), Johan Wiklund (), Jonathan Levie (), Steve W. Bradley () and Sanwar Sunny ()
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Sharon A. Simmons: University of Missouri – Kansas City
Johan Wiklund: Syracuse University
Jonathan Levie: University of Strathclyde
Steve W. Bradley: Baylor University

Small Business Economics, 2019, vol. 53, issue 2, No 13, 517-531

Abstract: Abstract Despite the significant role played by serial entrepreneurs in the entrepreneurial process, we know little about group differences in reentry decisions after business failure. Using an ecosystem framework and stigma theory, we investigate the variance in gender gaps related to the reentry decisions of 8171 entrepreneurs from 35 countries who experienced business failures. We find evidence of persisting gender gaps that vary across ecosystem framework conditions of public stigma of business failure and public fear of business failure. Our findings shed new light on ecosystem inefficiencies that arise from multiple interactions between entrepreneurs and institutions.

Keywords: Gender; Business failure; Stigma; Fear of failure; Entrepreneurship; Ecosystems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J26 L24 M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11187-018-9998-3

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