Download or read book Gender and Entrepreneurship written by Amanda Brickman Elam and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines three distinct contributions to the study of entrepreneurship. Firstly, it contributes to both sociological and institutional theories of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneur. Secondly, it presents a cross-national comparative framework for the multilevel analysis of entrepreneurship. Finally, this book produces a key multilevel finding with regard to the importance of national gender beliefs for the likelihood of business creation among both men and women.