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Women entrepreneurship in STEM fields: literature review and future research avenues

verfasst von: Sara Poggesi, Michela Mari, Luisa De Vita, Lene Foss

Erschienen in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal | Ausgabe 1/2020

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The aim of the paper is to explore the published management research on women entrepreneurs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (also known as STEM) fields in order to offer a first, comprehensive state-of-the-art of this research. In doing so, a systematic literature review (SLR) of 32 papers has been undertaken. The results of this SLR show that the literature on this topic is still limited and fragmented. However, seeds have been sown for stimulating the theoretical debate and the empirical knowledge on these issues. Based on our analysis of these selected papers, we offer a vibrant research agenda for future developments.

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The “leaky pipeline” is a metaphor which explains why women in STEM fields are under-represented. As Blickenstaff (2005) explains: “This pipeline leaks students at various stages: students who express interest in science careers sometimes change their minds when applying to colleges and universities and select other areas of study. Others begin their post-secondary education in a STEM programme, but change majors before graduation. Finally, some students leave the pipeline after graduating with a STEM degree when they select another field as a career. One interesting feature of these leaks is that women leak out more than men do” (p. 369).

Although no SLRs exist on the topic, the keywords have been selected by considering also Cheryan et al. (2016) for the STEM keywords; Foss et al. (2019) for gender keywords and Poggesi et al. (2016) for firm-related keywords.

As for the strict requirements of SLRs’ research protocol, it is not out of the ordinary to find, in management literature, such a wide difference between results from the 1st step of research and the final sample object of investigation (e.g. Abatecola et al. 2013; Osagie et al. 2016; Solnørdal and Foss 2018).

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Titel: Women entrepreneurship in STEM fields: literature review and future research avenues
verfasst von: Sara Poggesi
Michela Mari
Luisa De Vita
Lene Foss
Publikationsdatum: 10.10.2019
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal / Ausgabe 1/2020
Print ISSN: 1554-7191
Elektronische ISSN: 1555-1938
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-019-00599-0

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