Stossier Female Solo-Entrepreneurs

Coping Strategies for Handling the Challenges and Double Burden of Business and Private Life
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-658-40336-2
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 178 Seiten

Reihe: BestMasters

Austria’s economy is characterized through small and medium sized enterprises. Solo entrepreneurs are considered a special form within SMEs and contribute a major share to Austrian’s economy besides being Austria’s most popular legal form of organization within the micro firms. In 2020 every second of Carinthia’s start-up businesses was established by a female entrepreneur. According to an entrepreneurship study presented by Volksbank in 2019, nearly half of all female entrepreneurs lived with children and juveniles. Two-thirds of women said they were solely responsible for family, childcare, and household and 71 percent of those female entrepreneurs specified that those circumstances caused difficulties for them. This book investigated Carinthian female solo entrepreneurs and aims to find out how these hard-working women manage their business and private life while contributing to such great extent to the (federal) state’s economy. The conceptual foundations were found in embeddednessand the contextual framework which supports the importance of numerous influences on different levels placed on the entrepreneur. The empirical section represents a primary research that evaluates self-collected data sets of Carinthian solo-entrepreneurs.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stossier, Theresa

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Conceptual Framework: Definitions and Overview of Female Entrepreneurship.- Gendered enterprises and female business: Puzzles of heterogeneity.- Empirical analysis of (female) solo entrepreneurs: The case of a south Austrian region.- Results and Findings.- What lessons did we learn?.- References.

Über Autor(innen)

About the authorTheresa Stossier  completed a master's program in business administration at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt after education and bachelor studies in the field of tourism.