Female Entrepreneurship: A Grouped Division of Europe and Central Asia

• Author(s): Machado, Diana ; Correia, Aldina ; Braga, Vitor
• Date: 2020
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/18879
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Entrepreneurship:; Gender Issues
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): REPOSITÓRIO P.PORTO

Description

The constant changes in sociocultural conditions in the global market and the tremendous growth in the number of women's companies culminates in the growing interest in research on female entrepreneurship (Brush, 1992; Moreira et al., 2019). The main objective of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of how the economies of Europe and Central Asia group in terms of female entrepreneurship. The research was based on a quantitative analysis of data from companies belonging to 35 countries in Europe and Central Asia, using a multivariate technique, namely Cluster Analysis. This study has as an implication a better understanding of how the economies of Europe and Central Asia are distributed in terms of female entrepreneurship. The results of the study suggest that the economies of Europe and Central Asia can be divided into two groups and the difference between the two clusters can be justified by the role of women in the countries concerned.