Women in Management Review: Volume 16 Issue 5

Work‐family conflict of women entrepreneurs in Singapore

Jean Lee Siew Kim, Choo Seow Ling

As long as the society continues to emphasise a woman’s basic role as that of mothering, working women will face role struggles. As married working women, many women entrepreneurs…

More jobs for the boys? Succession planning in SMEs

Lynn Martin

Both the incidence of planning and the identification of female successors were lower than anticipated in this study of 128 companies with less than 50 employees. No company…

Why women enter into entrepreneurship: an explanatory model

Muriel Orhan, Don Scott

Develops a model of the factors that motivate women to start their own businesses. Qualitative research involving 25 French women entrepreneurs were used to explore case study…

Gender differences in leadership styles and management skills

Sarah Burke, Karen M. Collins

The results of this study suggest that self‐reported leadership styles of female accountants differ somewhat from the leadership styles reported by male accountants. Females are…