View : 664 Download: 0
What Brings Female Professionals to Entrepreneurship? Exploring the Antecedents of Women's Professional Entrepreneurship
- Title
- What Brings Female Professionals to Entrepreneurship? Exploring the Antecedents of Women's Professional Entrepreneurship
- Authors
- Choi, So Young; Kim, Sang-Joon
- Ewha Authors
- 김상준
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 김상준
- Issue Date
- 2021
- Journal Title
- SUSTAINABILITY
- ISSN
- 2071-1050
- Citation
- SUSTAINABILITY vol. 13, no. 4
- Keywords
- professional entrepreneurship; self-employment; push theory; pull theory
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Indexed
- SCIE; SSCI; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- This study explores how female professionals engage in starting their own businesses, known as professional entrepreneurship. In particular, this study specifies what factors foster the likelihood of self-employment of female professionals. Drawing upon the push and pull theories of entrepreneurship, we argue that individual capabilities (as a pull factor) make the self-employment of female professionals less likely, while discrimination experiences (as a push factor) make the self-employment of female professionals more likely. Given such bifurcated effects of these factors, we examine the combinatory effects of individual capabilities and discrimination experiences (which are specified as attribute-based and family-based discrimination experiences) on the rate of self-employment of female professionals. With a sample of 1356 female lawyers in the U.S., we test our hypotheses predicting the rate of self-employment with respect to prior salary and discrimination experiences. Our results reveal that prior salary (a pull factor) motivates female lawyers to stay at the traditional law firms, whereas attribute-based discrimination experiences (a push factor) motivate them to open their own office. Furthermore, we find that such a push effect is pronounced only among the female lawyers with lower salaries. Then, the empirical findings are discussed to elaborate the process of female professionals' entrepreneurship.
- DOI
- 10.3390/su13041765
- Appears in Collections:
- 경영대학 > 경영학전공 > Journal papers
- Files in This Item:
There are no files associated with this item.
- Export
- RIS (EndNote)
- XLS (Excel)
- XML