What Brings Female Professionals to Entrepreneurship? Exploring the Antecedents of Women's Professional Entrepreneurship
- 주제(키워드) professional entrepreneurship , self-employment , push theory , pull theory
- 주제(기타) Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
- 주제(기타) Environmental Sciences
- 주제(기타) Environmental Studies
- 설명문(일반) [Choi, So Young] Drexel Univ, LeBow Coll Business, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA; [Kim, Sang-Joon] Ewha Womans Univ, Ewha Sch Business, Seoul 03760, South Korea
- 등재 SCIE, SSCI, SCOPUS
- 발행기관 MDPI
- 발행년도 2021
- 총서유형 Journal
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000181402
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13041765
초록/요약
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.
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