[...]... interests of women in management, women in small business and women in business and the professions Leonie’s research interests lie in these areas and she has published eight books and monographs on these topics, as well as numerous articles and conference papers She was also the founding editor of the xiv International handbook of women and small business entrepreneurship journal International Review of Women. .. entrepreneurship , and ‘entrepreneurs’, are often used in place of the terms small business ownership’ and ‘owners’ 3 4 International handbook of women and small business entrepreneurship Overview and limitations of current research A variety of motivations may lead women to become small business owners First, the ‘Push/Pull’ classification is presented as it has often been used in discussions about entrepreneurial... The transformative potential of entrepreneurship A number of theorists have provided evidence of the phenomenal growth of the rates of women s entrepreneurship over the past decade Recent reports on women s employment 258 International handbook of women and small business entrepreneurship BOX 19.1 CASE STUDIES OF ENTREPRENEURS Jennifer is a white, Canadian-born hairdresser and set up her salon at home...x International handbook of women and small business entrepreneurship leadership, corporate culture, women in management, Chinese business management, change management, HR management and cross-culture management She has published extensively in local and international journals, such as Human Relations, Family Business Review, Journal of Management Development, Asian Academy of Management Journal, International. .. combination of governmental-allied and community based self-employment training programmes in place, each with a specified ‘target group’, (see Table 19.1) The system of state funding in place is complex and layered, and 40 International handbook of women and small business entrepreneurship Frey, R.S (1984), ‘Need for achievement, entrepreneurship, and economic growth: A critique of the McClelland thesis’,... and are extremely poorly paid (Ng, 1999) Rather than gender alone, however, immigrant women s lack of class resources, assumed sewing skills, exclusion from the labour 256 International handbook of women and small business entrepreneurship market, lack of language training and responsibility for childcare together form a ‘matrix of domination’ Such an approach to the intersections of race, gender and. .. Review of Women and Leadership Current research topics include generational change in men and women in management, the career development of women managers, a national study of women in small to medium sized businesses, and women s work in call centres P Sudarsanan Pillai M.A.(Econ); M.Com.; LL.B; PhD is Professor and Director of School of Management Studies at Cochin University of Science and Technology,... professional certification programmes xii International handbook of women and small business entrepreneurship Julia D Newcomer is an Assistant Professor of Management at Texas Woman’s University Her area of specialization is human resource management; she also developed for the university, and teaches, a course in Women in Business Her PhD is from the University of North Texas, and she has completed post-doctoral... the centre of the analyses of business ownership, self-employment 253 254 International handbook of women and small business entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship Beggs et al (1994) note, for example, that the term ‘entrepreneur’ has historically been used to refer to white, middle-class men They argue that despite the growth of literature on women entrepreneurs, this group of men continues to be considered... centre of studies of entrepreneurship (and women s entrepreneurship) and those who are at the centre of analyses of self-employment The experiences, needs and training requirements of these groups may differ dramatically Yet, in much of the literature on entrepreneurship, insufficient attention is paid to the class position of the woman and the relevance of these differences for training and policy development . alt="" INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF WOMEN AND SMALL BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP In loving memory of Vera Ellison International Handbook of Women and Small Business Entrepreneurship Edited. the University of Georgia in 1997. Garland Press published her book, Women s Resources in viii International handbook of women and small business entrepreneurship Business