Contextual Embeddedness of Women's Entrepreneurship

18 Entrepreneurial passion and social entrepreneurial self-efficacy among Spanish and Moroccan young females

Juan Diego Borrero

Some researchers label women-owned firms as ‘under-performing’ (Marlow, Shaw, & Carter, 2008). Data that support this hypothesis argue that women constitute approximately one-quarter of the self-employed and only one-tenth of business owners (OECD, 2003). In addition, their firms are concentrated in a low-value-added sector of the service industry (Marlow, Henry, & Carter, 2009; Wilson & Tagg, 2010) and consequently exhibit limited growth in terms of employment, sales, profitability and market share (Carter & Marlow, 2007). On the other hand, other researchers point out that the hypothesis of under-performance is a myth, ...