From housewives to entrepreneurs : Education and environment in women's entrepreneurship building process

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380546
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts
• Principal Investigator: KATO ATSUSHI 同志社女子大学, 現代社会学部, 教授 (00329963)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 起業家精神 / 起業態度 / 起業志向 / 起業家教育 / 女性起業家

Outline of Final Research Achievements

How have the Japanese housewives entrepreneurs overcome the hardship of capability building interruption? The major topics of the study are “women's entrepreneurship growth process and environment” and “entrepreneurship education for non-specialist women". The theoretical backgrounds are personal entrepreneurship (Entrepreneurial Attitude, EA) and organizational entrepreneurship (Entrepreneurial orientation, EO) and social learning theory. The reserchers had in-depth interviews with women entrepreneurs including non-prifits and performed exploratory data analysis with the internet survey data. They revealed the EA growth process of women entrepreneurs who suspended their job career for child-raring. Furthermore, they investigated the entrepreneur education system in the United States, Korea and Taiwan, especially in the women’s universities and revealed career education that would expand career choices:inclusive choices of employee and self-employed.

Free Research Field

経営学