Special Issue
Submission Closed
The Role of the Family and Gender for Self-Employment Behavior
01About This Special Issue
Scholarship has increasingly pointed to the family as the primary social organization shaping self-employment decisions. Firstly, the study of family’s influence on self-employment decisions has been done from the inter-generational transmission perspective. On the other hand, the analysis of the role played by gender has delivered a long amount of papers and relevant results showing very different motivations for men and women for becoming self-employed. At this respect, several studies have pointed out that women are more prevalent in ‘‘unincorporated and non-professional self-employment’’ because self-employment offers an opportunity to ‘‘balance work and family life’’. In that sense, in the last decades a few studies have been focused on how marriage and relationship status determine self-employment decisions. Therefore, certain family conditions further modify women’s opportunities and decisions, such as husbands’ employment and the presence of children. In any case, the family context appears to have a very relevant effect on women decisions on entrepreneurship. This special issue is to improve the dissemination of advanced research in the area of family’s influence on self-employment decisions. Specifically, original research papers are solicited on the behavior observed by gender.Aims and Scope:
1. General woman family context and entrepreneurship
2. Women marital status and entrepreneurship
3. Intergenerational transmission and women entrepreneurship
4. Self-employment types and gender
02Meet the Guest Editors
Our distinguished editors bring deep subject-matter expertise to curate high-quality research and ensure a rigorous peer-review process.
Lead Guest Editor
Flora Mª Díaz-Pérez
Facultad de Economía, Empresay Turismo, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain
Guest Editor
Seyed Mehrdad Miraftab Zadeh
Young Researchers and Elite Club, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamedan, Iran
