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Chapter 1: Introduction

The introduction will focus on outlining the ways entrepreneurship as a scholarly field has developed since 2000, as a follow up to our initial co-edited volume on foundational pieces within the field. It will focus on important contributions available from groundbreaking work that has taken shape in entrepreneurship research since 2000, and discuss how the papers in the book speak to important and emergent areas for research.

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan

Dev K. Dutta

Golshan Javadian

Vishal K. Gupta

Chapter 2: Gendered Perspectives on Organizational Creation: Lessons from the Past and Insights for the Future

Golshan Javadian

Entrepreneurship has traditionally been understood as a masculine activity (De Bruin, Brush, & Welter, 2006) that is often defined by stereotypically masculine terms (Baron, Markman, & Hirsa, 2001; Fagenson & Marcus, 1991). This gender stereotypical context portrays women as "less" qualified entrepreneurs (Ahl, 2006) and negatively impacts women's entrepreneurial intention and opportunity evaluation as well as venture capitalists' evaluations of women entrepreneurs (Gupta, Turban, Bhawe, 2008; Gupta et al., 2009; Gupta, Goktan & Gunay, 2014; Malmstrom, Johansson & Wincent, 2017). Bird and Brush work is unique given that they highlighted the relatively less visible feminine perspective of venture creation and compared it to the traditional masculine perspective to better understand how gender impacts the different dimensions of an organization.

Bird and Brush also clarified how entrepreneurial behavior is shaped and how it is affected by the gender maturity of the entrepreneurs. They argued that gender awareness and gender integration form gender maturity which influences the gendered processes in venture creation. The gendered processes include dimensions such as concept of reality, time, power and ethics. The gendered process then leads to gendered-balanced organizations which entails uses of resources, structuring, controlling, integration through systems, policy and culture. Throughout their discussion, Bird and Brush distinguished between sex in terms of biology and gender in terms of socialized perspective helps us better understand how the social processes impact entrepreneurial behavior and venture creation.

My goal in this chapter is to reflect on this important work, which has become the foundation for many important studies on women entrepreneurship. I aim to look at the studies that have used Bird and Brush arguments in their theoretical development and categorize them based on different themes. For example, one category will be the studies that have used Bird and Brush to develop a framework or agenda for women entrepreneurship research (e.g. Ahl; 2006; Brush, De Bruin & Welter, 2009). Another category will be the studies that have focused on gender stereotypes in the entrepreneurship context (e.g. Gupta et al., 2008; Gupta et al., 2009). Or a category will be on the studies who h
About the Author:

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan is Professor of Practice at the School of Engineering and Academic Director of the IE Brown EMBA program at Brown University, USA.

Arturo E. Osorio is Associate Professor of Practice Entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School Newark - New Brunswick and a Fellow at the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED) and Senior Research Fellow at the Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies both at Rutgers Newark, USA.

Dev K. Dutta is Associate Professor of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship at the Peter T Paul College of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire, USA.

Vishal K. Gupta is Associate Professor in the Culverhouse College of Commerce at The University of Alabama, USA.

Golshan Javadian is Assistant Professor of Management at Morgan State University, USA.

Grace Chun Guo is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Management at the Jack Welch College of Business, Sacred Heart University, USA.