Impact of entrepreneur's gender on innovation activities. The perspective of small businesses.

This paper analyses the female gender as a one of the factors that may influence product and process innovativeness of small enterprises. The data discussed come from an empirical study of 1017 small enterprises from the Kujawsko-pomorskie region in central-northern Poland. The theoretical framework...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Maciej Zastempowski, Szymon Cyfert
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/53d9c96f6511478f89bdfbe3c38a2822
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:53d9c96f6511478f89bdfbe3c38a2822
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:53d9c96f6511478f89bdfbe3c38a28222021-12-02T20:16:43ZImpact of entrepreneur's gender on innovation activities. The perspective of small businesses.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0258661https://doaj.org/article/53d9c96f6511478f89bdfbe3c38a28222021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258661https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203This paper analyses the female gender as a one of the factors that may influence product and process innovativeness of small enterprises. The data discussed come from an empirical study of 1017 small enterprises from the Kujawsko-pomorskie region in central-northern Poland. The theoretical framework suggests three areas of factors that may influence small enterprises innovativeness: the entrepreneur's gender, innovation management capability, and firm characteristics. The results of the study suggest that the female gender of the entrepreneur has a positive impact on the product and process innovativeness of small enterprises. In the group of small enterprises managed by female entrepreneurs the chances of introducing product innovation are higher by 83.7%, process innovation by 56%, and product and process innovation together by 82.1%.Maciej ZastempowskiSzymon CyfertPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 10, p e0258661 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	Medicine R Science Q
spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Maciej Zastempowski Szymon Cyfert Impact of entrepreneur's gender on innovation activities. The perspective of small businesses.
description	This paper analyses the female gender as a one of the factors that may influence product and process innovativeness of small enterprises. The data discussed come from an empirical study of 1017 small enterprises from the Kujawsko-pomorskie region in central-northern Poland. The theoretical framework suggests three areas of factors that may influence small enterprises innovativeness: the entrepreneur's gender, innovation management capability, and firm characteristics. The results of the study suggest that the female gender of the entrepreneur has a positive impact on the product and process innovativeness of small enterprises. In the group of small enterprises managed by female entrepreneurs the chances of introducing product innovation are higher by 83.7%, process innovation by 56%, and product and process innovation together by 82.1%.
format	article
author	Maciej Zastempowski Szymon Cyfert
author_facet	Maciej Zastempowski Szymon Cyfert
author_sort	Maciej Zastempowski
title	Impact of entrepreneur's gender on innovation activities. The perspective of small businesses.
title_short	Impact of entrepreneur's gender on innovation activities. The perspective of small businesses.
title_full	Impact of entrepreneur's gender on innovation activities. The perspective of small businesses.
title_fullStr	Impact of entrepreneur's gender on innovation activities. The perspective of small businesses.
title_full_unstemmed	Impact of entrepreneur's gender on innovation activities. The perspective of small businesses.
title_sort	impact of entrepreneur's gender on innovation activities. the perspective of small businesses.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/53d9c96f6511478f89bdfbe3c38a2822
work_keys_str_mv	AT maciejzastempowski impactofentrepreneursgenderoninnovationactivitiestheperspectiveofsmallbusinesses AT szymoncyfert impactofentrepreneursgenderoninnovationactivitiestheperspectiveofsmallbusinesses
_version_	1718374469042438144

Impact of entrepreneur's gender on innovation activities. The perspective of small businesses.

Ejemplares similares