The gender gap in Ph.D. entrepreneurship: How do students perceive the academic environment?
Journal
PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2022
2022
Historique:
received:
30
07
2021
accepted:
28
11
2021
entrez:
7
4
2022
pubmed:
8
4
2022
medline:
15
4
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
This paper investigates gender issues in Ph.D. entrepreneurship. The empirical analysis is based on data from a questionnaire survey run in 2014-15 in Italy. We analyse how Ph.D. students perceive the institutional entrepreneurial environment, the drivers and the factors hindering entrepreneurship and gender-equality among faculties at the parent institution. We find evidence of a gender bias in Ph.D. entrepreneurship and that the perception about the factors either hampering or supporting entrepreneurship is deeply different between sexes. The academic environment can have a fundamental impact on students' decisions to start new ventures and on the probability that they will abandon their entrepreneurial intentions. Female student entrepreneurs particularly benefit from the opportunity to engage with a gender-balanced work environment.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35389999
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261495
pii: PONE-D-21-24678
pmc: PMC8989309
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e0261495Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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