... not in the Global North or Western welfare states. Therefore, this empirical study from Sweden provides novel information on how the gender order on the business, industry and family levels influences the income of men and women entrepreneurs differently. 14 06 2021 15 09 2021 28 10 2021 25 11...

...Andrea May Rowe Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a comparative case study of national innovation system in Canada and Sweden from the perspective of gender equality. The case study focuses on public policy to illuminate the formal aspects of innovation systems as they are conceived...

... questions that need to be addressed to close important research gaps in the field of entrepreneurship. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Gender Germany Entrepreneurship Great Britain University education Sweden Women Evaluation How best can we understand female...

...- and socialist-feminist perspectives, and discussed in light of the empirical results. Design/methodology/approach – We report from a longitudinal quantitative study of female-dominated welfare industries. Data, available from Statistics Sweden, include the total population of entrepreneurs available...

... methods have been employed to analyze the sample including a binary logistic regression model. The sample consists of 836 women‐owned businesses in southeast Sweden; 97 immigrant‐owned, 739 native born‐owned. Findings The results indicate that there are partly significant differences between native...

... the conditions for entrepreneurial career development among women in academic environments. Sweden Women Entrepreneurs Universities Incubators Academic entrepreneurship Research commercialization There have been a growing number of studies that address the under‐representation of female scientists...

... Denmark Finland Iceland Norway Sweden Research work Recently, Brush et al. (2009) argued for the need to acknowledge that institutionalized social structures at the micro, meso and macro levels can have a significant impact on women's entrepreneurship. The papers included...

... their business. The approach is to investigate the context of women entrepreneurs and the kinds of supporting social networks of which they are part. This is seen in relation to their willingness to grow. Design/methodology/approach Questionnaires were sent to women entrepreneurs in mid‐Sweden and mid‐Norway...

... illustrated the three contexts. Sweden Entrepreneurialism Women Entrepreneurial identity Family firms Narratives Metaphors The paper starts with a description of the theoretical framework and method, followed by a presentation of two narratives illustrating identity work. Then, the paper ends...

... small business owners in Sweden. Design/methodology/approach Using qualitative data gathered during four months of fieldwork in Sweden, the analysis focuses on the case of Malin Andersson, the founder of a domestic services company, to show how individual situations are intimately connected...

...Helene Ahl; Teresa Nelson; Elisabeth Sundin; Malin Tillmar Purpose The paper aims to explore the consequences of new public management (NPM) inspired reforms in general and outsourcing of traditional public sector responsibilities in Sweden to private organizations in particular. At centre stage...