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How women CEOs’ financial knowledge and firm homophily affect venture performance

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: We examine the impact of female-led venture firms’ knowledge of alternative forms of financial capital and its effect on their financial performance as compared to male-led ventures. We contend that women chief executive officers (CEOs) leading such ventures faced unique historical and stereotypical challenges that impeded their financial knowledge and subsequent firm performance. We utilize liberal and social feminism frameworks, complemented with homophily theory to illustrate how female CEOs can overcome these challenges by increasing the percentage of women in the ownership structure of female-led venture firms.

Source: Journal of Business Research

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113459

Authors: Ian Blount, Maria del Carmen Triana, Orlando Richard, Mingxiang Li

Institutions: Vanderbilt University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Florida Atlantic University

Language: English

Topic: Private Equity and Venture Capital

Subfield: Accounting

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,440