Linking Women Entrepreneurship with Social Entrepreneurship

Maria M. Benavides-Espinosa () and Antonia Mohedano-Suanes ()
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Maria M. Benavides-Espinosa: University of Valencia
Antonia Mohedano-Suanes: University of Valencia

Chapter Chapter 5 in Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics, 2012, pp 53-71 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In recent times, the number of women entrepreneurs in the world has grown steadily, motivated by necessity or by reasons related to the identification and exploitation of a gap in the market via which they can exploit and develop the experience and knowledge acquired. However, a new phenomenon is emerging in the field of entrepreneurship: the creation of organizations to attain social goals. It is precisely within this new framework that women can take on a relevant role due to a certain extent to a greater sensitivity towards the social problems in their environment. In this paper, we discuss several cases of women entrepreneurs that have allowed us to relate the motives for entrepreneurial activity, whether through necessity or through opportunity, with the different types of organizations suggested by researchers in the framework of social entrepreneurship.

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Social Goal; Social Entrepreneur; Social Objective; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1293-9_5

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